サラ・ウェイン・キャリーズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (サラ・ウェイン・キャリーズInstagram)「Okay, friends: Meet Reverend Honest Hawkins. My great-grandfather. The kindest soul you'd ever meet, he literally - yes, literally - could not walk by a stranger without starting a conversation. He was characteristically soft-spoken until he'd get up to his pulpit. Then his voice could BOOM like thunder🌩 Born in Perry, Florida, he and my great-grandma Annis moved their family to New Jersey in 1922 when the Perry Race Riot happened. For those unfamiliar with that incident, it happened just days before the Rosewood Massacre. Annis' mother - Great Grandma Ada - was a freed slave and the daughter of a plantation owner. She was so badass and so well-respected that when the white mob descended on Perry, the sheriff allegedly told them they could burn whatever they wanted - EXCEPT Ada's house. When my aunt tells this story, she says Ada hid so many Black people, they covered her floors laying shoulder to shoulder. As soon as she could manage it, Ada got them all out of her house and on their way north - Honest, Annis and their daughter (my Nana!) included. Most Black families have stories like this, stories where someone in their ancestry - within the last hundred years - had to leave communities they built in order to escape racial violence. Rosewood had a movie made about it, Tulsa is now featured in HBO's Watchmen, but there are HUNDREDS of other instances. It's crucial to learn about these events, not just for history's sake but to understand the effects of them. Imagine having to flee your home because of someone else's hate and the perpetrators never facing justice. Imagine having to start over in a new place and worrying they may not welcome you either(these massacres were NOT limited to the South). Now realize these survivors are our *grandparents*. While your grandparents might've been buying homes and building generational security, ours were picking up the pieces of their lives and doing the best they could with their new circumstances, all while dealing with and usually suppressing that trauma. There are many reasons people call for reparations, but if violence like this isn't on your list, go ahead and add it to your argument. -@kaylelauren」7月13日 3時16分