#ABetterYouIsABetterMe

           I wanted to share something, but struggled to do so because it may not translate well...      Nevertheless, I do so anyway. This anklet in this picture has literally been around my left ankle for 20 straight (never removed) years—bought it in 2000 from a beautiful Pakistani brother that I became fond of and him of me. He asked questions out of curiosity and genuine interest. So I shared things concerning African-American culture with him and he with me about Pakistani culture. I supported his business regularly in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania where I lived at that time. When I opened up my bookstore in Upper Darby he visited me and purchased several books from me... a bookstore that was extremely short-lived because the locals hated that it (I) was there. But I won’t elaborate on that.      So on last evening as I slept somehow my foot got caught in the anklet, and half asleep I aggressively pulled it away and bro...

           While it may not sound graceful; I have been known to reference “traveling through a woman’s womb.” It is literally a God-idea therefore deemed sacred. Hence the Holy implantation of Jesus via Mary’s womb. A privilege and purpose reserved for a woman—adding “Mother” to her credentials which supersedes any Phd, MD, MEd, etc.         That said, I have made a couple of references to George Floyd’s momma in present-tense, and have been “corrected.” However, I know his momma has gone from THIS life—I know that. However, her son called on her in his final hours as though alive...and that’s my point. And like I said to the person I was speaking with... I believe he saw her. I believe he wasn’t calling on a deceased mother, but one that was very present with him as his life was leaving him. Because as a motherless daughter, I know, a mother can physically depart this this earth, but she never leaves that place in a child’s...

Maybe no one else wants to say this, but I will... that officer intentionally, deliberately... used his knee to kill Big Floyd as a symbolic rebuke of Colin Kaepernick’s symbol of protest of “taking a knee.” This was his symbolic and visual intent while murdering a Black man. It wasn’t irony or coincidence — it was intentional.