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#BlackFriday #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFathers
@BigAngBlack threw out a prompt for great fathers. I don't know if my father was "great," not sure what that would mean but he was a good father. He did his best during a time when all Black men were catching hell daily but particularly Black men who had his darker complexion. He got up every day, went to work and helped my mom build a strong family.

This is a picture of my father and mother from the fifties. My dad is a very brown man. The photo is black and white and the contrasts aren't good but he's wearing a colored buttoned shirt. He and my mom are sitting looking at the camera. He's holding my sister, who looks very sweet (its a disguise!). My mother is next to him holding me. Hard to see what she's wearing but its probably a dark dress and she has on her characteristic lipstick. I never saw her without lipstick until I was a teenager. The wall behind them is white but to the left of my dad there's a ledge framing a fireplace. On top of the ledge are all of their bowling trophies. They were excellent bowlers.
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B. A. Balackus

@fulanigirl
same with my dad
We don't have a lot to talk about but he always calls to check and make sure im okay

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@BigAngBlack The genealogist at the Library of Congress is helping me with some research. She told me we have to start celebrating ordinary people who don't get to be famous, don't have statues or plaques because its their stories of daily survival that are important. That resonated with me and your prompt made me think about how right she was.

B. A. Balackus

@fulanigirl
That's how we build a strong community, give everyone enough encouragement for just being there that they always want to

Jun 16, 2023, 06:58 PM·Public·Megalodon
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