Only if

In the world of political decision making, the mundane oftens becomes the ridiculous. Almost two years have evaporated since mother nature devastated the city of New Orleans and the adjacent areas with the use of a Storn named Katrina.

Since the period of the initial slow response and the displacement of tens of thousands of people, the government has finaly agreed to allocate 14.4 billion dollars to rebuild the city of New Orleans alone. Although a significant proportion of the city’s population has yet to return and that a major part of the city remains in ruined and dilipated conditions, it has been proposed that 3.5 million of the reconstruction or relief or whaever it is called aid, should go to the building of a Katrina memorial.

Now forgive me if I am wrong, but I don’t think Katrina will ever be forgotten in that area. Add to that thet I figure almost 4 million dollars can go to builind a lot of homes and providing needed basic service. But then again am not a politician.

But if I were, I would not state my career on using money unnecessarily when there are so many people in need. I just wish that some folks like me would get the nerve, with all of their sins and iniquieties, maybe believe enough in this republic and the correlated political machine to run for office one day and do what needs to be done. But that won’t happen, I would have prefffered to fight Sadaam in a boxing match as opposed to put other folks life at risk. But that just this main here folk.

Where are the Coretta's?

Today is indeed a rare day. Initially I was just going to post the blog below titled “To the Left” which ran in Rollingout urban weekly this past week. However, through my voracious appetite for information and my penchant for reading a minimum of 6 to 8 papers daily, I have to write about something else. Yesterday, I posted on a new breed of mother, and described what I felt were women that were really less than women, those that placed themselves and their petty concerns over their men and their children. I am afraid I have to continue this rant. As much as I have talked about us men, in the past, I see that I can only express my concerns objectively.

In New Orleans a teenager, Clarence Johnson is being charged with second-degree murder for the shooting death of another teenage boy in his neighborhood. Currently in jail on $250,000 bond, after turning himself in Friday, Johnson was booked for the murder of Robert Dawson, 17, on Wednesday night in Central City.

Now check this, his mother, Vanessa L. Johnson, 44, was also charged with being a principle to second-degree murder, for giving him a gun and for advising her so to “handle his business” and kill the teenager who he had been involved in an altercation with on Wednesday. According to police reports and newspaper articles, she was quoted by a witness as saying, "Kill them all," according to her son. Next, the mother allegedly had a friend who was in her home at the time drive her son from her home on Erato Street to the corner of Simon Bolivar Avenue and Clio Street where Clarence set and waited in ambush for Dawson at a sandwich shop.

Dawson, also 17 became the 21st murder victim of 2007. The irony is that he and his family had just returned to the city after being displaced to Texas after Hurricane Katrina. Dawson and his mother traveled 10 hours via bus from Dallas on Wednesday to New Orleans. He had only been in the city four hours before he was murdered. The mother is in jail on $150,000 bond.

Now, maybe I am wrong but there is something very problematic and un-motherly about a woman giving her son a gun and asking him to kill another person. Let us get a grip folks, all of us as individuals and parents. As a woman, it is a duty for you to correct us as men and boys, for we can be very silly and childish at sometimes even if we are responsible. Please, do not let me marry a woman like this, for if she would expect my child to act in such a fatuous manner, what would she expect from me? She was probably more concerned with her image (her son being seen as tough)as opposed to what was right versus what was wrong. With women, or mothers like these (uncaring, non-compassionate, unthankful and ungrateful), who needs enemies. Where are the Correta Scott Kings, do they make them any more? Because I want one of them.