this is a problem how right is she sounds so right about so much but what is she missing when they come for her children they will not care about her words what do you think her child will do when the officer tells him to get up on the sidewalk rhetorical strengths have always been a problem for black folks we luxuriate in the power of our voices the one thing that she said that must be addressed is that we no longer control our children did we ever control our children ask your great grand mothers whether they felt their lives were centered around doing what they were told or what they wanted to do. in our rush to catch up with the material well being of our peers and those they aspired to be we have surrendered control of their lives to our children we have become their supporters and advocates and defenders and more then that their apologist this woman was doing so well until she suggested that she would be a barrier and protect her child and chilldren if you came to get them. really she will be great on the networks decrying why her child should have never been taken because he was her child after all and that should have been enough to protect him or her people will rally to her side and maybe the attorney general will come and investigate her child will be dead we are responsible for the raising of our children and we have paradigms about what that entails the paradigm that I grew up with was the parent was the most feared person in the childs life We feared my mother because she brought us into this life and she could take us out this has been replaced with the fear of the policeman or woman We listened and obeyed or did not obey because of the consequences of disobeying If the consequences were not set high enough to control our behavior the level was raised until the result that was desired was achieved or the child was labeled as a bad child and everybody was notified that this was a child that had to be watched because they were no good. Something was missing in this child. they were broken and would probably not survive for very long and the parent was given sympathy because a bad child was a burden. if the authorities took a bad child it was to be expected natural selection If the community took a bad child greater sorrow but same understanding this woman was right on when she said that the black parent did not tell their children the same things about survival that the white parents did. why did this stop. when did we lose our perspective and begin to empower our children to act as if they were white children. When did we begin to applaud women and mothers like this speaker who seems to think that there is a power that she possesses to protect her children in words said to power that will protect them from bullets and the stupid and cowardly cops that dont see good child or bad child but see a threat to their accomplishing the primary mission they have been given when they leave their station house which is to return alive. We live in fear of what our children may do and what the powers to be may do to them we grew up and we survived because we feared a more immediate threat to our well being and we entrusted them to point us in a direction that was safe. Let me be clear I love this womans commitment and applaud her for trying to place the authorities in check in an effort to protect her children I simply disagree with her thinking that she alone or she with the support of every member of that community can provide protection from the outside that a child must have within them. When I walked out of my mothers house I knew what I was supposed to do and why. If I violated the rules that I was given, the rules that placed me under the protection of the world that I was too live in, I expected the consequences to fall on my head not the people who were there to enforce the rules. I wanted to hear more about that contract from this mother.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 11:25:49 +0000
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