I just did a Thirty year bid. I was just as imprisoned, confined, held down, held back, intimidated, rendered useless, as any inmate in any prison. Some of my relatives did real time, real actual jail time. Truthfully getting locked up is not so unusual in many families. I'm laughing because it was expected in mine. My granddaddy kept "Bail Money". He was a good man. He would bail your sorry ass out of jail with a quickness. The promptness of which your relatives recuse you from arrest is considered a "bragging right". It is a shame, but it is the reality.
People that have never been locked up should not feel so superior. Yes, we should care, we should visit those incarcerated. No, I did not say I am about to do it. At least I recognize I should. There are some evil immoral people that should be incarcerated. That's my fear. I do not want to go around them. One of my friend's did, messed her up!
There may be many with no business in prison. But, I have a distinct feeling, most of them there should be there. "A snake is a snake."
"Only by the Grace of GOD there go I." I could have been my mother. Perhaps. What if I had been born "high yalla"? What if this world convinced me that the color of my skin made me "premium" and I had the right to mistreat people as much as I desired because I believed I was preferred?
Did Martha really believe she was preferred? Were there some blurred lines? Are most people still racist? Sexist? Age-ist? Do we still judge people by their "incomes"? How much money is enough money? When is your business, "Your business"?
I survived a "mother" so EVIL GOD had to put blinders on me to enable me to survive. This woman would beat us brutally, we would have bleeding lacerations and she forbade us to so much as look at our wounds. No, I did not know this was abuse. No, I was NOT dumb! I was accustomed. I was numb. I did my "time".
"It is ALL in Divine Order!"
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