I mean -- it's not like slaveowner POVs are hard to find in literature but it's shocking/bracing seeing one in a familiar milieuhttps://twitter.com/nberlat/status/864590508450078720 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
It got me thinking I might've lived in a neighborhood w such "arrangements" and never known
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Notable is that the author's family was not at all wealthy by US standards, they were working-to-middle-class but had a slave
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Maybe it's overreaching for me to say this but I was struck w empathy over that shock of realizing your family isn't "normal"
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(Ok, I'll be forthcoming abt this one) I had a Moment when
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MrEddieHuang
And, like, at some point you're confronted with "Technically I have the right to report what my family considers culturally normal to CPS"
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I'm not actually disagreeing w the take maybe the author should've called the cops and had his mom arrested & Lola repatriated
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MrEddieHuang
But shit that's not an open-and-shut decision
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MrEddieHuang
The thing that got me about it was how inseparable the story is from the author's Immigrant Narrative
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The exploitation survived for decades because of that cultural wall that springs up around immigrant families and immigrant issues
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Replying to @arthur_affect
What gets me the most about this whole story is the fact that he also enslaved this woman too. After claiming he stuck up 4 once maybe twice
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