American Violet

I recently watched a true story movie called American Violet. It was a story based in  a small town in Texas. A racist District Attorney was using illegal tactics to boost their crime stats up by arresting black people for drug crimes, specifically crack cocaine. Most of the people's only crimes were merely being black, poor, and living in the projects. One young lady in perticular was arrested and charged with possession of crack/cocaine in a school zone. She was threatened with a sentence of 16-25 years in prison if she didn't plea guitly and agree to supervised probation. Most people in her position would have taken the probation knowing the cards were stacked against them. I personally know a few. The young lady accepted the plea after 21 days in jail. Between that time the ACLU became involved and began fighting on behalf of the people. Needless to say they won. My reason for mentioning this book is this, growing up I've been on both sides of this fence. I've been the guilty crack dealer (really guitly) and I've been the innocent one getting stopped by the police just for looking like a hoodloom. Even recently in my small town of Fairburn, Ga. I was stopped by a patrol officer as a so called case of mistaken identity. I can easily say it was racial profiling but the officer in question was blacker than me. But I will tell you this, I've long understood the difference between a racist and a bigot.


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GSU Graduation

So, in my on going attempts not to be broke I was hired today to work a photo booth at the Dome for GSU's Graduation Day. Smh...some of the things some of these grads were wearing was bananas! Needless to say some of them were pretty nice tho. Congrats GSU!

Surprised Visit

I got a surprise visit from two of my kids (8 and 12) this weekend. I haven't seen them in person in nearly two years. The reason why I say personally is because I Skype with them frequently. Now here's the problem. Their mother decides to make a surprise visit and bring them from North Carolina to Georgia without giving me a heads up. I'm broke as hell so I didn't have anymoney to take them anywhere or buy them anything to make their trip more memorable. And I know that shouldn't matter if all they wanted to do was see me but I always treat them. Second problem is I had to make sure I had enough food in my house to feed them. Why? Because since I didn't know they was coming I had to find extra money to feed them. Their mother showing her true colors, split before they had a chance to even take their jackets off so I couldn't pull her to the side and discretely ask her for help, which I have to admit, she would have given to me. and to make matters more complicated I had to work so that interferred with us spending time together. But in the end it worked out well. I came home from work that morning and made them breakfast. I was in the middle of making them dinner when they mother showed up to get them and just that fast was right back off. Now, my only question is why? Why would she just show up to do something nice. Why she dropped them, disappeared, and reappeared just like that? I guess I'll never know without asking her directly, which I won't do because then she'll think I care when in reality I'm just being nosey. lol

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An Omen

I don't know why but for some reason my heart. I don't mean hurt in the physical sense. I mean hurt emotionally, but I don't no why. But I do know once I put my finger on the source it won't be good.