{"id":4848,"date":"2021-02-25T09:02:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T15:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=4848"},"modified":"2021-02-21T20:07:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T02:07:27","slug":"how-covid-and-the-summers-racial-reckoning-impacted-the-way-i-your-friendly-neighborhood-econ-frat-bro-live-my-life-and-view-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/how-covid-and-the-summers-racial-reckoning-impacted-the-way-i-your-friendly-neighborhood-econ-frat-bro-live-my-life-and-view-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How Covid and the Summer\u2019s Racial Reckoning Impacted the Way I, Your Friendly Neighborhood Econ Frat Bro, Live My Life and View the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

They didn\u2019t. I think that sums it up, but I\u2019ll explain.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the start of the pandemic, I was forced to return to my lake house in Connecticut. My dad said that staying in New York City was below us, financially and geographically (it\u2019s right at sea level). It was awful having to deal with the breezes coming up from the Long Island Sound, and my sister downstairs having to learn from the private tutor we had flown in since online learning just wasn\u2019t cutting it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t completely ignorant, and I watched the news every day. I like being informed on what is happening in the world, but at that time I didn\u2019t really care <\/span>\u2014<\/span> it wasn\u2019t like anyone I knew was affected by the virus.<\/span> That being said, it was tough, but we were slowly getting accustomed to our new normal when, at the start of the summer, shit hit the fan again. Staffers at Bon App\u00e9tit, a food and lifestyle magazine for people who spend more than $50 dollars on a single jar of cinnamon, suddenly left the magazine because of race stuff, and they left me alone, without any of their comforting weekly videos. (Is my love of Bon App\u00e9tit a bit emasculating? Maybe a bit, but don\u2019t yuck my yum or my dad will sue you into oblivion.)\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I know some protests happened, but they affected me about as much as COVID did <\/span>\u2014<\/span> it was a minor inconvenience. There were a couple of BLM posters on a couple of the yachts, but nothing really happened to me or anyone I know. I see the protests the same way I see a presidential visit to NYC: annoying, will definitely disrupt traffic and cause mayhem for a couple of days, but then I will move on. Personally, I already know that I\u2019ll be working at my dad\u2019s firm right after college and make a high six-figure salary in fewer than five years, so people of color can do whatever the fuck they want because it won\u2019t affect me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Your Friendly Neighborhood Econ Frat Bro is currently a second-year in The College from Horace Mann. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Staffers at Bon App\u00e9tit, a food and lifestyle magazine for people who spend more than $50 dollars on a single jar of cinnamon, suddenly left the magazine because of race stuff, and they left me alone, without any of their comforting weekly videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}