thank you mikkismom, that was lovely and much needed. A link about the very real effect Relisha has had on someone other than a lonely attention seeking grown man.
Born at Providence Hospital, having lived in a few shelters as a baby, and raised in SE DC near The Shrimp Boat, I agree with you 100%. That life is not easy. It was nothing for a friend's mother to be a crackhead, to see drunks and addicts in the alley, to hear a couple cursing and physically fighting. My sister's best friend became a mother at the age of 14; continuing the family cycle of teenage pregnancy. It wasn't uncommon to for an uncle or someone you knew very well to be locked up. Fights everyday, gunshots the norm, and abuse prevalent.
I sit back and look at my life and thank God I had parents determined not to allow us to become products of our environment. Our house was the "safe" house where a lot of the neighborhood kids came for a meal, peaceful surrondings, and the hugs from my mother. So many yearned to be in the presence of someone who treated them well and genuinely loved them. I remember 3 siblings, a high school aged girl, her elementary aged sister, and their 3 year old brother. The whole neighborhood knew their mother abused them; she constantly fought the older daughter like an enemy from the street. She came to our house with deep bite marks, and puntures on her shoulder. Her mother beat her with the piece of wood that's placed in the the threshold of a doorway, a nail was still attached. They very rarely had food and the 3 year old would often eat the dogs' food. This is the reality of people like Relisha and her family. This was my reality.
It's easy to judge what you see, without knowing what they know. Sorry for the rambling.
Thank you, AndieS, from the bottom of my heart. Those kids need people like you who have faith in them and WANT them. I remember the people like you :loveyou: You ARE making a difference.
-This Chocolate SE DC Girl
After I read the poem, I wrote a response and deleted it. Her writing the poem did not slightly irritate me, it was very well written, it was the headline as if she represented a child's thought on the case. No disrespect to her or her professor and designer parents. The parents and adults in Relisha's world probably don't even have a high school diploma. And I highly doubt the parents or another 12 year old would be able to write a poem like that. Who better to tell the story than those who live it?
Please excuse the editing, I'm using my phone.
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Perspective: a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.
She DOES represent a child's thought. She is a child, and those are her thoughts. We are all individuals and we all have different thoughts.
And why do you doubt other kids could write a poem? I am so confused.
A little girl wrote a poem. She seems like a sweet, kind, caring young lady who would not hurt a fly. She says she thinks about Relisha, the same way most of us on this thread think of her. We are sad for her, we care about her, we only want good things for her, we want her to feel loved and to be loved.
I see absolutely nothing wrong with any of that and I think if anyone has anything negative to say about it then perhaps they need to do some introspection.
There are plenty of people who came from poverty, and did not graduate high school, who can still feel empathy, and write a poem about it.
After I read the poem, I wrote a response and deleted it. Her writing the poem did not slightly irritate me, it was very well written, it was the headline as if she represented a child's thought on the case. No disrespect to her or her professor and designer parents. The parents and adults in Relisha's world probably don't even have a high school diploma. And I highly doubt the parents or another 12 year old would be able to write a poem like that. Who better to tell the story than those who live it?
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So a young lady who has nothing in common is touched and affected by Relisha's story and addresses it via a poem and because she is not ethnic enough poor enough, is too privileged, and lives a life apparently nothing like Relisha's, it is not valid?
I am sorry I think I must be taking your post entirely differently than it is meant.
I wonder when the Grand Jury meets, and if SY&CO will be indicted? I don't understand why LE is waiting for the GJ anyway. It seems to me they could have made arrests back in March.
I wonder when the Grand Jury meets, and if SY&CO will be indicted? I don't understand why LE is waiting for the GJ anyway. It seems to me they could have made arrests back in March.
BCSO: Missing girl last seen on school bus found
http://www.wyff4.com/news/bcso-girl-missing-after-last-seen-on-school-bus/26092006
FAIRVIEW, N.C. Sheriff's deputies in Buncombe County say a 13-year-old girl missing after she failed to come home from school on Tuesday has been found
"Sheriff's office representative Natalie Bailey sent out a release after 10 a.m. on Wednesday stating that Anna Schmitt was safe and was in good condition."
"No further information was given."
Read more: http://www.wyff4.com/news/bcso-girl-missing-after-last-seen-on-school-bus/26092006#ixzz32Mz3qml3