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A Mother Speaks on Jena 6 and Michael Vick
Clark Dark here readers to introduce to you a lady whom I have known all my life, because she gave me life. My momma, Africa Blanche Reilly Dark. She is the lady who taught me the basics– everything I needed to know before I started kindergarten. She is the light of my life and I honor her. Ladies and gentlemen, our newest guest contributor Africa Blanche Reilly Dark. Momma…
Thank you son. As a female who has given birth to four children, 2 of each gender, who are all grown and successful, I would like to take this opportunity to express my opinion on two news items currently the topic of nearly everyone’s conversation; and when I say successful I mean my children are productive, gainfully employed, independent and most importantly they do not live with me.
My heart goes out to the mothers of the 6 young men in Jena, Louisiana unjustly charged in what amounts to a schoolyard fight. By the assessment of the local law enforcement authority Sheriff Carl Smith the media exploited an insignificant incident between teens. Yep, the media, the international media that is, has taken the events that occurred in that very bigoted tiny southern town in Central Louisiana and blown them all out of proportion. We are ever so grateful the American media outlets were slow to report this outrageous miscarriage of justice. Question: If this was an insignificant incident why was the so-called “white tree” cut down just days before the scheduled sentencing of one of the defendants late last month? As reported by NPR, “Jena High School had the big shade tree in the courtyard chopped into firewood.” I’m an old lady, and I’ve not heard of such spiteful defensive and offensive carryings on since I was a young girl growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina and later in Philadelphia. Is this really the 21st Century or am I caught in a time warp regressing to the period 60 or 70 years after the War Between the States? They call it the Jim Crow era.
Next on my list is Michael Vick. My heart goes out to his mother, too. I stand in support of you. Your son is a moral imbecile. It just proves once again having children is a crap shoot. George Herbert Walker Bush knows this better than anyone. If he were a bettin’ man I’m sure he’d have lost a bundle betting Jeb would have been president before Dumbya. Yes when you have children you’re never really sure what you’re gonna get. What with those generational curses and children inheriting features and behaviors from as far back as the previous third generation; they could exhibit characteristics of folks you’ve never heard mention of in the family history much less met face to face.
I wish to say in closing as a mother having and raising children, as is life, is very much “like a box of chocolates”. You never really know what you’re gonna get.
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