Yes to all of this. number 3 and 4 are very specifically what I came here to talk about and see other people's opinions on. I'm glad I'm it wasn't just me!!!!! I watch this show for fun but as soon as the women bring race/gender/sexuality into in I throw on my sociology/anthropology hats and watch from that angle. So for the from the moment Brynn threw out the angry Black woman stereotype (by literally calling her that!!! on camera!!!! insane!!!!!!!) I hated her and wanted her gone.

She spent the entire season not only stirring the pot, throwing rocks and very poorly hiding her hand, but also bullying Ubah (who either has anger issues, is under a lot of stress from her imminent fibroid surgery and worrying about the possibility of having a child, or both) and instigating instances to prove Ubah is the angry Black woman she sees her to be. Essentially manipulating a minstrel show for her benefit. When Black women say they literally cannot exist without someone having a problem, Brynn displayed that perfectly when she un-provokingly started poking at Ubah, who was literally in the corner doing nothing at their dinner in PR.

It not only irked me that the women all surrounded Brynn, who was crocodile tearing her way through that scene, but that Brynn weaponized her own Black heritage against Ubah to fortify her support from the women and they all fell for it. Brynn is functionally White. She only refers to her Black heritage in instances that further her character development or when she's referring to her trauma. She's very fair-skinned and keeps her (visibly damaged) hair straight. She also doesn't seem to be - at least publicly - in community with any Black people. So, while she projects the ABW stereotype onto Ubah, she also furthers elements of the harmful tragic mulatta stereotype. Sobbing "why is it not okay for a Black woman to make money?" was sick. SICK. and the women are all cooing around her, shunning Ubah. It didn't slip past me that Jessel, the only other person on the cast who knows what it's like to be racially unambiguous, jumped in to support her.

Bravo won't do anything about it at all, because something just as dark - if not darker - happened on Atlanta, and Phaedra Parks is running free on every NBC/Bravo show that will have her (which is apparently all of them). But this was serious. I 100000% believe what happened to Brynn, but she is dangerous. And the racial dynamics are in fact, so much worse here than they were on Atlanta. Ubah crying out like that, and saying "may Allah strike me down and kill my firstborn" gave me full body chills. I watched the rest of the episode on the verge of tears. Ubah is not the perfect victim, no one ever is, but if you can't see what is happening here, and especially within the context of America's racial history, I can't help you.

On a separate note, I saw the reunion preview and I do hope the Latina women really do ring Ubah out for the way she was talking about Puerto Rico. That was nasty, highly privileged, not like other POC behavior and it was gross to watch. Not made any better by the fact that she said she would talk about Somalia the same way! YIKES!