The first article was about a now heartsick father of a slain 2 year old boy in Brooklyn. After seeing his kid, just last weekend, running around and dancing like any normal 2 year old, Ameen Foster received that phone call every parent fears. To his surprise, the new boyfriend of the child's mother (whom Davis was unaware was living with his son) had beat the little boy to death. To know that this innocent and adorable child was killed over reciting his ABC's is insanity to me. Now, I blame the mother 120%. A child's mind is impressionable enough, why do you already have another man around your 2 year old son in the first place? You can't tell me that woman saw no signs of an abusive personality. I can assure you based on any sociopaths profile that if a man had enough balls to strike a 2 year old with that type of force, he's without a doubt gone upside her head before too! My deepest condolences and continued prayers go out to this father and family.
Next, we have the continued coverage of Donna Cobb, the Harlem nurse who killed her abusive husband with a knife and a ceramic statue! I honestly don't know how to feel about this case. Trust me, I feel her on killing him for beating her like a throw rug for the last 10 years, BUT, she know left their 6 children fatherless! Why? She can never replace their father. This is what I mean when I said know yourself and your spouse. If you've been with a man for ten years and he's been beating you since year two ... I have to ask two questions. Why the fuck did you marry him and why did you proceed to have children with him, knowing he ain't going to change? After year five, you truly know he's not going to change! There is definitely information missing from this story and I hope for the sake of her children - she exposes that truth during her trial. It'd be a damn shame to see six more children caught in the system cuz their mother thought it would be easier to kill their father instead of just growing her backbone to divorce him. Now you're kids may be without both parents! Did you ever think of that? Or just yourself?
This week was filled with stories like this. If it wasn't murder, it was bedbugs, or suicides. New Yorkers ... get your shit together! Last week a little Brooklyn girl became 50Gs richer because she can text with lightning speed ... this week another Brooklyn child got his life taken with lightning speed. Did I miss the part where we focus on the education of these kids? Nope, I didn't, everyone is too focused on the broadcasting bad to even try to find a solution to things that could avoid these tragedies. If budget cuts didn't shut down Brooklyn daycare facilities, maybe that child would have had a safe place to go during the day!
If you think you got it bad, reread this blog, pick up the paper and read how bad other people have it. Maybe you'll appreciate your life and instead of bitching about it, you'll take the steps to change it. At the end of the day, YOU are the only one who can change it!
Remember, Jo Jo Said It!!!
By Jo Anne-Patricia @MzFilterless
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