Draw near, contemporary America, and hear my ancestors speak:“Plenty of the colored women have children by the white men. The white men not going to tell and the nigger women were always afraid to. “In them times white men went with colored gals and women bold[ly]. Any time they saw one and wanted her, she had to go with him, and his wife didn’t say nothin’ ’bout it. They and their children are living reminders of a time without safeguards or boundaries, and when black women had no choice — and white men faced no consequences.

Source: Washington Post December 09, 2017 00:34 UTC