This is a four-part series called What We Inherited: A Story of Survival, Forgiveness, and Generational Healing.
In many Black households, especially in the South, we are taught early how to endure. We pray. We keep moving. We don’t talk about what happens behind closed doors.
Silence is often framed as strength. Forgiveness is often framed as duty. And survival becomes so normal that we stop asking what it’s costing us.
I grew up inside that silence. Not because my family didn’t love me, but because pain, especially in Black families, is often inherited rather than discussed.
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