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Friday, July 19, 2013
"This Could Have Been Me"
It is important.
A few nights ago my son was skateboarding at around 9:30 PM in our neighborhood. Someone came out of the shadows, a neighbor-maybe 35 to 40, punched him off the board to the ground.Hurt him.
My son did not fight back, I think he ran home.
I understand skateboarding is "viewed" as anti-social and by some, hated.
But when he told me I had such pain and fear. It was overwhelming, and it hasn't lightened. The next night he went out at 11 for Carl's Juniors but I thought he was boarding and I stopped breathing fearing this neighbor that is capable of assault.
I taught in South Central years ago-many years later I reflect on those boys lost to violence.
A lot is going on in my heart.
The President spoke directly into my being.
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