Op-Ed: Blocked by racism from earning a good living, my mother 'made a way out of no way' (via latimesopinion)
I’ve spent a lifetime being proud of my mother, of her brilliant insistence that we were entitled to a stable, middle-class life — even if achieving one meant operating, as she put it, “a legitimate business that just happened to be illegal.”
My parents were part of the great migration of Southern Black people to Northern states, uprooting their lives in Nashville and leaving behind their extended family to move north to Detroit with two small children . The fact that Fannie began, as has every Black American for the past 401 years, with an enormous disadvantage, meant that her triumph, her ability to acquire the means to create generational wealth for me and my children and their children, came at a rage-inducing cost.
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