Two Mothers (I am not what you think)
25 25 September 2018 (Wall Street International)* – The images of the weeping Angelica Rebeca Gonzalez-Garcia, the Guatemalan mother being united with her daughter, was heart-wrenching. All who watched this reunion surely shed tears with the mother. A moral and humane victory had been won.
There is another group of weeping mothers, however, who will never be reunited with their children. These are African American mothers whose sons have been the victims of police deadly force.
Michelle Kenny, mother of Antwon Rose, the 17-year-old whose life most recently was taken by a policeman’s bullets, will never be reunited in this life with her son. She must live till she dies with the prophetic words of his poem, ” I see mothers bury their sons. I want my mother to never feel this pain.”
Antwon’s poem, “I Am Not What You Think,” was written for his tenth-grade honors class. In the poem Antwon expressed what it meant to be black in America. Why does not the pain and weeping of Michelle Kenny evoke national outrage?
When African American unarmed boys are shot in the back, it is most often local residents and Black Lives Matter, now called a terrorist group by the far right, that expresses outrage with the killing.
Martha R. Bireda‘s article was published in Wall Street International. Go to Original.
More articles by Martha R. Bireda published in Human Wrongs Watch:
The Great Central American Exodus – Why Do People Leave Their Homelands Enmasse?
History Redux – The Separation of Children and Families
I Want My Country Back — A Return to American Apartheid?
Black Boys — Robbed of Childhood Innocence
Good People – Race Consciousness Evolution
The Brute – The Mythical Black Male
The Great Fear — The Myth of Whiteness
Why Not Mexican Immigrants? A History of Discrimination and Exclusion
