You spoke about both your mother’s and your father’s childhood. How they both came from similar situations, yet how they both handled their lives differently. How because your mother was a girl, she felt a greater responsibility to be a motherly figure for a majority of her childhood. Yet because your father was a boy, he was allowed freedom, freedom your mother could never have because of her gender. This made me think of the cycle of violence and the idea of masculinity and how deeply both of those are rooted. How even though Black people were never free in that time, at least in the truest sense, how there was still the levels of freedom based almost on anything else.
I love the way you speak honestly. This book is one everyone should read, as it speaks about a cycle of struggles that few people understand. It sheds light on how each person handled similar struggles very differently, how people who are oppressed do their best to oppress the tragedies that are happening around them. There is such a skewed view of both Black men and women, especially when looking at emotion, and this directly corresponds to the expectations that both themselves and others set for them. I appreciate you shedding light on these ideas.
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