this is like when parents chastise their teenagers for being antisocial and then when the kid starts to make an effort and emerge from their room the adults are like "wow π look who decided to show up π"
I'm with QC. I think everyone involved with this book is either clinically insane or on ironic simulacrum level 671 and interpreting it sincerely as "RDA really wants to help black people with this terrible racism that's been going on" is too mistake theory even for a hardened π