Dear Kevahn,
- I'm sorry that New York magazine decided it was ok to exploit you and publish your story thereby cementing the misbegotten notions you have about how one deservedly garners respect.
- My apologies that you have grown up in a society where people esteem you for what you have and not simply because of who you are.
- I'm truly sorry you haven't learned that the reasons you should be cherished have nothing to do with the designer clothes you've stolen and done prison time for.
- I'm sorry that as a people, African-Americans largely judge their own self-worth on superficial attributes. While I hope your comment to Judge Simpson about her article in The New York Times would help her see that she also perpetuates this mindset, I'm doubtful that it did.
- I'm sorry that a mind capable of retaining such facts as yours, and the ease with which you handle Calculus, is being short changed for meaningless pursuits.
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1 comment:
This is utterly heart breaking. There are so many disturbing elements to this story including the POV of the journalist who wrote the story.
This story speaks directly to the deterioration of moral and ethical values. Folks no longer associate worth with the intangibles, nope. Many only assign a value to what they can see without realizing that what they can see is oh so temporal. Painful.
Yesterday I was reminded that a nation is comprised of a set of values (culture), a territory, a boundary, and a name. I need say no more about how our nation is defined based on the preceding components.
The bright side is that each of us has the power to define our own nations. Yes, our nations are our immediate families. We can define and hold to our own sets of (good) values (cultures) and set boundaries to protect our families from infiltrations of opposing cultures.
Let's do that and be intentional about influencing everyone we come into contact with.
Deep, deep sigh. I'll say no more.
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