Friday, July 12, 2013

Six White Mothers

The women on the jury of the Trayvon Martin murder case are all very different people. They are not
going to be any more alike than if they were all neighbors.
They won't be any more alike than me and my cousin who is married for the second time with three children, one black, and two Arabic.  I married only once. All my children are black.
Six women aren't alike because each of them is white.
Angelina Jolie is white-  so is her mother-in-law, and her husband's ex-wife.
Yet, Angelina couldn't be more different than the two afore-mentioned women.
Some of the women on the jury may hurt as though Trayvon could have been any one's young son.
Some of them may hurt as though they just realized their son was a predator-murderer.
We can't assume anything much about a person because we assume she has a womb.
Some of them may sense they would feel better getting a sex change.
Women are just people. Pure and simple. We cannot profile this group. Profiling is an obviously
unfortunate habit.

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