@iraiah8, Black Royalty, wrote:

[audubonballroon@mastodon.social]

@iraiah8, Black Royalty, wrote:

My dad is 85.
He grew up in the Jim Crow South. This isn’t distant history. it’s his memory.

He told me a story:

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#blackhistory #whitehistory #blackwomen #92percent #misogynoir #segregation #whitefragility #blackmastodon

[audubonballroon@mastodon.social]

A white man spoke to a woman he thought was white. Other men told him she was Black. They mocked him. So he went back… and slapped her.

That’s it. That’s the story.

A Black [Woman] assaulted for nothing, except a white man’s need to correct himself in front of other white men.

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[audubonballroon@mastodon.social]

That’s how fragile that system was.
That’s how violent it had to be to hold.

Black [People] weren’t just denied rights.
They were punished for disrupting a lie.

And Black [Women] paid for it quietly, constantly, without protection.

My father is still here.

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[audubonballroon@mastodon.social]

So are the people who lived this, enforced it, survived it. To the MFs who say this was a long time ago - phuck you. Call it what it is. That was your raggedy-ass, POS pa-pa and mee-ma, dad, mom, uncles, and brothers.

That’s not the past. That’s the blueprint.

I feel rage, grief, and something deeper, because I know this wasn’t rare. And it didn’t end, it just changed form. Different rules, same harm. Same pain.

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