History Repeats Itself
In the store you buy the same Betty Crocker double chocolate chip cookies a woman in her 30’s makes in Florida. You make the same recipe with the same ingredients you’ll both get the same results.
But you’ve never considered paying attention to history. So that you yourself won’t make the same mistakes. Because “honestly if we don't pay attention history is going to repeat itself!" @Nia Samone. And here I am trying to be the oddball, trying hard not to be a single mom, becoming the first to graduate college in my family and still trying to own my own business. Things that black kids from the hood don’t do.
And although I’m doing these things to better myself. What really matters is what I do to make a positive influence on someone else. I hope that if my father is released he uses his mistakes, and his knowledge to teach someone else. That the young men that hear his stories, are not only able to relate but understand. My father knows he went to jail for selling drugs and being a menace to society. Although that’s not what he was charged with this is the reason the corrupt cops arrested him. The private investigator said a juror on my fathers case stated “ I told the judge I don’t feel right about this verdict”, and the judge told him, “ go home and get some rest”. The judge was comfortable with removing someone from the world who would only cause havoc. My father was just like the Tyrone Brown. A member of the Bailey Boys Gang, those members accused of 4 murders, 14 attempted murders—including four drive-by shootings. A man my father thought my mother loved more then him.
What we need to do is encourage each other. Uplifting one another and create a community of givers. Sharing knowledge and holding each other accountable. We often allow our own loved ones to fail, when those same people help our world go round. Those same kids will become our future leaders.
Yes, it would be nice to see my dad free. It would be cool to ride in a car together, or go see a movie, but to see him uplifting other young men to be the best they can be. To watch him encourage our generations to vote, get educated, and grow, that’s what I’d die to see. Because those skills, those assets are the things that keeps our community alive!
But you’ve never considered paying attention to history. So that you yourself won’t make the same mistakes. Because “honestly if we don't pay attention history is going to repeat itself!" @Nia Samone. And here I am trying to be the oddball, trying hard not to be a single mom, becoming the first to graduate college in my family and still trying to own my own business. Things that black kids from the hood don’t do.
And although I’m doing these things to better myself. What really matters is what I do to make a positive influence on someone else. I hope that if my father is released he uses his mistakes, and his knowledge to teach someone else. That the young men that hear his stories, are not only able to relate but understand. My father knows he went to jail for selling drugs and being a menace to society. Although that’s not what he was charged with this is the reason the corrupt cops arrested him. The private investigator said a juror on my fathers case stated “ I told the judge I don’t feel right about this verdict”, and the judge told him, “ go home and get some rest”. The judge was comfortable with removing someone from the world who would only cause havoc. My father was just like the Tyrone Brown. A member of the Bailey Boys Gang, those members accused of 4 murders, 14 attempted murders—including four drive-by shootings. A man my father thought my mother loved more then him.
What we need to do is encourage each other. Uplifting one another and create a community of givers. Sharing knowledge and holding each other accountable. We often allow our own loved ones to fail, when those same people help our world go round. Those same kids will become our future leaders.
Yes, it would be nice to see my dad free. It would be cool to ride in a car together, or go see a movie, but to see him uplifting other young men to be the best they can be. To watch him encourage our generations to vote, get educated, and grow, that’s what I’d die to see. Because those skills, those assets are the things that keeps our community alive!