Very sad, and the woman didn’t feel responsible for the way her kids ended up. If anyone in my family was in prison or had even been arrested, I would die of embarrassment but it’s normal in some black families.
Crabs in a bucket.
People should probably get down on their knees and thank the person who branched far away from their original family tree!
I forget if it was via an article or if it was a conversation a long while back, but I remember the gist of the story. Since I grew up around poor white trash, I understood the phenomena.
It’s more important how fast and far someone can move to escape the “buckets” they were born into.
As long as you don’t get sucked into helping poor old cousin whoever, who just needs a new start, some can escape.
When they do, they die of embarrassment if anyone in their family goes to prison....