> imagine if my mom was raped repeatedly, my dad whipped and hung from a bough Mom and dad is one thing, but no one alive today had that happen to their parent

> imagine if my mom was raped repeatedly, my dad whipped and hung from a bough Mom and dad is one thing, but no one alive today had that happen to their parents, so this is just emotional manipulation. For people alive today it was more like great great great grandparents. There are awful things that were done to blacks at scale in living memory, but nothing like what you're talking about.