It’s even weirder if her grandma was black. In she was born in 1927, it’s likely her being pregnant at 12 wasn’t a choice.
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She was raped and impregnated by her white “master” as many, if not most, female slave children were.
jul 27, 2025, 12:51 pm • 1 0 • view
She would not have been enslaved in 1927.
jul 27, 2025, 1:16 pm • 8 0 • view
I understand what you're saying but the grandmother was born in 1927 so she was 12 in 1939. I don't doubt there was a sick power dichotomy somewhere in the situation that resulted in her grandmother becoming pregnant at 12, or the possibility of it being a dynamic like that. It's clear this rapper-
jul 27, 2025, 1:27 pm • 1 0 • view
I remained stunned by the number of people who believe that slavery (and all of its abuses) ended in the 1800s. The tooth fairy also flies in somehow when your little one is asleep and puts money under the sleeping child's pillow.
jul 27, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Being limited by 300 characters, I had deleted a much longer response acknowledging how the law may have passed to make slavery illegal, that the racist oppression and abuses continued in practice if not in name. I admit to reducing that to a much shorter, over simplified "power dichotomy".
jul 27, 2025, 5:03 pm • 1 0 • view
The fact of the matter is, although horrific slavery practices continued, and the 1930s were no incredible highlight of freedom for Black and African Americans, we have no idea based on the single post how she became pregnant beyond the information provided unless you have a source specific to her.
jul 27, 2025, 5:03 pm • 1 0 • view
But again, the sick power dichotomies I speak of between an adult and a 12 yo don't exclude a white man in a position of authority whether explicitly defined or not. It's a possibility. Unfortunately we just don't know.
jul 27, 2025, 5:03 pm • 1 0 • view
(if not her entire family) has normalized blaming the victim. No 12 yo old or 15 yo is responsible for a full grown adult's behavior like that
jul 27, 2025, 1:27 pm • 2 0 • view