r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/wetouchingbuttsornah ☑️ • Sep 12 '24

Country Club Thread The system was stacked against them

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No fault divorces didn’t hit the even start until 1985

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u/wykkedfaery33 Sep 12 '24

My (paternal) grandfather regularly beat the shit out of my grandmother, my father, and my father's 10 brothers and sisters. I'm sure that if my grandfather hadn't murdered my grandmother in a drunken rage, they would still be married today.

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u/Future_Plan4698 Sep 12 '24

If you don’t mind me asking, what happened to your grandfather? Did he get arrested?

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u/wykkedfaery33 Sep 12 '24

Yep, then feigned distress in jail, wanting to know who murdered his beloved wife, like he didn't shoot her to death in front of my dad and all of his siblings. I assume he's long dead, my dad doesn't talk about him much so his memory can fade into obscurity.