Family Legacy

By april september @fuckgentrification

JUNETEENTH 2070

Can you imagine my BLACK PRIDE & JOY when I found this family photograph?! My greatgrandmother “Nanny” front and center looking like a BADASS, surrounded by siblings and extended family members.

The text below is from an audio recording of me showing my cousin Carlton the family photograph. He had never seen it before.

“Look at the McCray’s! Look at all them guns! Even the women got guns. Cause you know back in the day when the Klan would come around all the mens was out in the field with the guns and all the women’s was in the houses. They had hot scalding water and cooking grease! That they was prepared, you know when they came up to the house they was fixing to dash some grease and