"...The New School is a university in New York City, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York academics..."
Here's the source of your problem, Tiffanie!!
Oh, she graduated from the New School? That explains a lot. Now I know that she probably wrote this piece to please the white leftists who would have been her main experience there. She has included all the right tropes, metaphors, and self-obsessed melodrama to make them happy.