Open Thread

BSM,

I am sorry to hear about these incidents.
I have a few as well,
I recall one Christmas Eve 2AM, when the gates from my father’s store beneath my apartment in ENY were torn off thier hinges. My father and I went out to confront the criminals and protect all we had.

I recall my parent’s being held up at gunpoint on Sumner Avenue in broad daylight.

I recall several occasions waking up to burglars tearing the roof up outside my bedroom window to get to the electronics store or the laundromat.
I have many, many ugly stories to tell.
Every one of them true.
Sometimes we won, sometimes they did.

I choose not to dwell on injustice though and I know it comes in all colors.
I work to eliminate it where I can by doing my small part
and I will not allow an undercurrent of victimization to stunt my kid’s potential.

“whiskers on kittens is what’s gotten me in trouble.”

LOL! It’s why I have a second cat! Couldn’t resist that tiny little face and disproportionately long whiskers and huge feet 🙂

whiskers on kittens is what’s gotten me in trouble.

BSM, that shit is nuts, but sadly, not uncommon enough.

It is. I don’t want to belabor the issue, but I can’t tell you how many times I have intervined, when the police have tried to pick-up or stop kids I know in the neighborhood. Including one time when they where sitting on my stoop after helping me weed my yard.

Signing off on the stop and frisk issue.

Soon the swallows will be returning.