This article is funny for its tone deafness, but it is very revealing of the social layer that obsesses over the #nytimes. Completely self-absorbed, affluent beyond belief. 155,000 Americans are dead and the Times writes pieces like this.
https://twitter.com/EricLondonSEP/status/1290674170968375296
"In Whim, Tobagoans lived in simple wood shacks perched on cliffs overlooking crashing surf, poor in money, but the owners of stupendous, million-dollar views."
Are you kidding me? "Poor in money"?? @ninaburleigh do you live in the court of Louis XV?
Are you kidding me? "Poor in money"?? @ninaburleigh do you live in the court of Louis XV?
This is why the Caribbean is safe for rich people: 
Nixon and Trujillo
"Howls of outrage" by the local blacks? Yikes. More King Leopold than Louis XIV perhaps.
"When we returned to the island a few years later we found newly paved roads, traffic jams, and a new mood — the hum and honk of progress drowning out the hummingbirds and the cackle of the national bird, the cocrico, at dawn."
Sad. & did houses replace the quaint locals' huts?
Sad. & did houses replace the quaint locals' huts?
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