<![CDATA[@iraiah8, Black Royalty, wrote:]]>@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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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/8f7d8dcc-c2da-4443-a260-a251393283d0/@iraiah8-black-royalty-wroteRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 02:53:10 GMTTue, 05 May 2026 13:44:13 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to @iraiah8, Black Royalty, wrote: on Tue, 05 May 2026 13:56:05 GMT]]>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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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/audubonballroon/statuses/116522311054833906https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/audubonballroon/statuses/116522311054833906Tue, 05 May 2026 13:56:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to @iraiah8, Black Royalty, wrote: on Tue, 05 May 2026 13:54:20 GMT]]>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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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/audubonballroon/statuses/116522304173969305https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/audubonballroon/statuses/116522304173969305Tue, 05 May 2026 13:54:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to @iraiah8, Black Royalty, wrote: on Tue, 05 May 2026 13:50:24 GMT]]>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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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/audubonballroon/statuses/116522288684982746https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/audubonballroon/statuses/116522288684982746Tue, 05 May 2026 13:50:24 GMT