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Contrary to common assumptions about child bearing and welfare, many Black migrants compensated for the disadvantages they faced by cutting back in every way that they could, most notably by having fewer children than the Eastern and Southern Europeans arriving at the same time.

Ida May for example, bore no children after the one she carried in her belly from Mississippi at the age of 25 despite the many fertile years she spent in the North.

She and her husband could not afford another mouth to feed.

It turned out that during the first three decades of the Great Migration, fertility rates for Black women migrants from the South were actually among the lowest of all newer arrivals to the North, according to Lieberson's compilation of census data.

In 1940 for the 15 to 34 age group Ida Mays at the time there were 916 children per 1,000 Black women as against 951 for Australians, 1,030 for Russians, 1,031 for Poles, 1176 for Hungarians, 1,388 for Italians.

Check women were virtually tied with Black women, 923 children per 1,000 children.

The disparities only widened with age. Among those in the 45 to 54 age group Central and Eastern European immigrant women had born in some cases twice as many children per 1,000 as Black migrant women in the North in 1940.

They went to the numbers again. One of the things about this is interesting is, hey, welcome to the Black Outers podcast, your host Rod F.

We're live on a Tuesday. I think it's Tuesday. I feel like it's Tuesday because it's very supposed to be on tomorrow and that's a Wednesday.

It's been a heck of a week. It's been a heck of a week. It's a period of time.

But yeah, so Tuesday is today. That excerpt is from the warmth of other sons, which I've been talking about on the show for a while now.

The thing I wanted to say was that it's interesting because it combats all the negative narratives about Black people from the South.

And kind of about immigrants in general, but at this point in time, it was Black people moving basically from the South to the North, immigrating within their own country essentially.

You know, you know the negative stereotypes. They're lazy. They don't have jobs. They don't want to work. They just subsist off the government. They just sit around having children all day out of wedlock, all this stuff.

And in the statistics show, it was the direct opposite.

Yeah, don't nobody can fuck about statistics. The second we was the second we was caught on cold free. We were lazy.

Yeah, and it's interesting because of what we was lazy when we were slaves to call it the white people that had to beat us. Come on.

You want to know what's interesting about this though is that how many Black people have lived with this type of anti-Blackness, self-hate, hatred from the outside that makes us, you know, believe this.

How much of respectability is about the fact that we think Black people are these things or you don't want to appear to be these things.

And it creates a vacuum where we don't, we're not even able to love ourselves because we're always constantly fighting against this.

We can't imagine a world where it doesn't matter what white people think about us, you know.

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