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re: Older black women who treat you like one of their children
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:45 pm to X123F45
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:45 pm to X123F45
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These women always seem to set aside whatever the issues and differences of the day are and act in a maternal fashion.
You seem like the low information dude.
How the flip do you know they had it in the first place and are setting it aside?
Weak.
This post was edited on 5/7/17 at 10:46 pm
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Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:50 pm to X123F45
Rando.
Blood is thicker than water.
It's sad, but true.
Blood is thicker than water.
It's sad, but true.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:51 pm to X123F45
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Older black women who treat you like one of their children
Yep. I was talking to one the other day, and she tried to whip me with an extension cord.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:52 pm to mahdragonz
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You seem like the low information dude.
How the flip do you know they had it in the first place and are setting it aside?
Weak.
If anyone here has a relative 80+ still living I urge you to sit and pick their brain while you still can. It's incredible to hear them tell their stories. To my point, any white or black person over 80 has their view on race, etc... there's literally no way not to.
My SO's grandmother is 93. Asking her questions about life is so much fun. The best stories are not of her but of what she saw and heard about HER aunts, uncles and grandparents. We're talking 1800's shite. Amazing.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 11:28 pm to mahdragonz
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You seem like the low information dude.
How the flip do you know they had it in the first place and are setting it aside?
You seem like you can't read for shite.
At no point did I say the issues and differences were theirs. I said they were the day's. The issues of the present. The colloqial baggage we all carry because of the vast expanse of mis/information.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 11:28 pm to SohCahToa
seriously, a large percentage of my customers I have never met one time, but I know their nanny/housekeeper.
A lot more common than I thought it was. My grandma loved her nanny growing up. When her Alzheimer's was getting really bad she asked me constantly why I "let her go".
Drive around uptown during the day pay attention to the strollers and the parks.
On point with the OP, yes, the Grandmother age (45+) black women have this quality. I am thinking fondly of "mama" from the Silver Moon outside of LSU, it's a damn shame she was priced out of the area. If I were wealthy I would put her right back at the North Gates, so LSU kids could experience the love that woman had.
She probably lost money she fed so many of the poorer kids for free. Or on loans.
I wonder what happened to her.
A lot more common than I thought it was. My grandma loved her nanny growing up. When her Alzheimer's was getting really bad she asked me constantly why I "let her go".
Drive around uptown during the day pay attention to the strollers and the parks.
On point with the OP, yes, the Grandmother age (45+) black women have this quality. I am thinking fondly of "mama" from the Silver Moon outside of LSU, it's a damn shame she was priced out of the area. If I were wealthy I would put her right back at the North Gates, so LSU kids could experience the love that woman had.
She probably lost money she fed so many of the poorer kids for free. Or on loans.
I wonder what happened to her.
This post was edited on 5/7/17 at 11:31 pm
Posted on 5/7/17 at 11:38 pm to Sao
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If anyone here has a relative 80+ still living I urge you to sit and pick their brain while you still can. It's incredible to hear them tell their stories.
I agree.
My favorite old person to talk to was my friend's dad, Ole man Joe. He was born in the late 20's and lied about his age to get into the Marines. He went all over the pacific and was on Iwo Jima and said he would have invaded Japan too. He was not in Okinawa but was a reserve or something for that. He had explained how the rotations worked and all. Said his platoon was lucky and had no losses. But he would describe the sounds. Booms non stop no ear protection, trying to hear people over gun fire.
He went into details and I was glad I listened to it. I was more fascinated that he said he got I think $0.25 a day in the Marines, and was happy when he got out, he got $.25 an hour. He had kids early, remarried in the early 80's to a woman younger than his daughter, had two more kids, and kicked it to he was 91.
I also took off time to be a caretaker/hospice for my grandparents when they both had alzheimer's.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 11:49 pm to X123F45
Yes.
Lady who practically raised me was one in a million. Parents had to tell me it wasn't ok to chase her car down the driveway, crying, when she left in the afternoons. I was probably 5 then, fast forward 15 years, I was back from school during christmas break and an old lady who could barely walk approached me in a restaurant and said, "baby, are you so and so." Told her yes ma'am, she proceeded to hug me and tell me she was moving Texas the next day- couldn't believe it. Tears ensued.
The big man has a great sense of humor
Lady who practically raised me was one in a million. Parents had to tell me it wasn't ok to chase her car down the driveway, crying, when she left in the afternoons. I was probably 5 then, fast forward 15 years, I was back from school during christmas break and an old lady who could barely walk approached me in a restaurant and said, "baby, are you so and so." Told her yes ma'am, she proceeded to hug me and tell me she was moving Texas the next day- couldn't believe it. Tears ensued.
The big man has a great sense of humor
Posted on 5/8/17 at 12:15 am to X123F45
The same goes for out here in California. Older Black folks and their families will take you in like you're their own.
35 years ago my work partner who is Black took me home to meet his parents. They instantly took me in as if I had been born into their family. In short time this included his extended family, cousins, aunties and uncles.
When I got married, they included my wife and when we had children, them too and now my grandchildren. Come to think of it though, his family has its roots in Texas and Mississippi. Maybe it is a Southern thing.
35 years ago my work partner who is Black took me home to meet his parents. They instantly took me in as if I had been born into their family. In short time this included his extended family, cousins, aunties and uncles.
When I got married, they included my wife and when we had children, them too and now my grandchildren. Come to think of it though, his family has its roots in Texas and Mississippi. Maybe it is a Southern thing.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 12:36 am to X123F45
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Older black women who treat you like one of their children
I love it. And I tell you, their hugs are magic.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 2:20 am to X123F45
Black women are the mothers of the earth.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 6:04 am to Twenty 49
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Yep. I was talking to one the other day, and she tried to whip me with an extension cord.
The one I was talking to threw a shoe At me.
I heard that whistle from The Good The Bad, and the Ugly and then "whap!"
Then it returned.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 6:25 am to X123F45
Warm, kind people are all out there if you're willing to see them. And, they come in black, white, yellow, brown, etc. That goes for the bad one too.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 6:29 am to X123F45
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Older black women who treat you like one of their children
Yes.
I'm 33 and work with a black lady in her 60s from New Orleans who treats me like her kid. In a good way. She always checks in on me, teases me, offers advice (which is good advice btw).
I have no idea if it's normal outside of the south because I'm from TX and my family is from LA and MS so those are the places we'd go to visit family as kids. But yeah my experience has always been that old black ladies are automatically motherly toward the world, basically, and in the south, everyone goes along with it.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 7:04 am to X123F45
I've not experienced any type of kind behavior out of strangers anywhere but the south. People up north would do nothing more than warm their own hands up if you were on fire.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 7:17 am to shawnlsu
Frick northerners 
Posted on 5/8/17 at 7:31 am to X123F45
I don't know but I like it.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 9:22 am to CharlesLSU
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Warm, kind people are all out there if you're willing to see them.
I have never had a old white lady walk up to my big bearded arse, place a hand on my forearm, and walk around the store saying I really should wear some sunblock since "you white folk don't take the sun well".
The funniest part to me is the instinctual response to lower my head and mumble "yes ma'am." all while chuckling.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 10:16 am to X123F45
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The funniest part to me is the instinctual response to lower my head and mumble "yes ma'am." all while chuckling.
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