[MeshugeMikey]

so much drama so little time...

[Nervous Tick]

THE AGONY OF THE BLACK FATHER IN AMERICA

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Because they’re Americans and this is the day Americans consecrate to gratitude, the Brown family tries to stick to easy topics—food, sports, music, children, absent relatives—everything but the nightmare that has changed their lives forever.

Thank God I wasn't eating when I read this -- I would have choked.

[a fool in paradise]

Barack Obama’s father wasn’t in agony and that was in ‘murica over 50 years ago.

[KosmicKitty]

I would love to know how much time little Mikey spent with big Mikey prior to his demise.

How many Thanksgiving was little Mikey actually seated at dad’s table?

[workerbee]

Then Rev. DeVes Toon of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network arrives with an uncle of Oscar Grant’s—the man whose death at the hands of a California police officer was memorialized in the movie Fruitvale Station—and he describes his latest idea for a publicity campaign: pictures of families at their Thanksgiving tables with one seat empty, propping up a picture of their lost child. “You gotta keep the heat on them,” he says. Through peaceful means, he adds, although he believes the officer who killed his nephew never would have been convicted if not for the riots that followed his death. “In the back of their minds, they gotta smell the smoke. You know what I’m saying?”

I smell something, alright, but it ain't smoke.

[I want the USA back]

They will make fools of themselves just so they don’t have to admit the truth.

They blame Whitey for everything.

[SamuraiScot]

. . . and an empty chair.

An evocation of Tiny Tim's sad household in A Christmas Carol, no doubt, in the vision of "Christmas Yet to Be."

Dude! Tiny Tim, get it? Skinny little kid of pure heart.

Not a gross, fat, angry, bragging, thieving, murderous, drug-addled monster.

[Dr. Thorne]

Maybe this black father should have spent a little more time being a real father. If so, his son might not a dead dope-smoking, thieving, violent, foul-mouthed thug criminal.

[Irenic]

Wasn’t the gentle giant being raised by his grandmother?

[Red Badger]

There’s an old saying:

Go hunting with your boy instead of hunting for your boy...................

[RightGeek]

He's sad because they had no blunts.

[Mears]

A little football and an empty chair.

It’s enough to break your heart./s

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[maggief]

Fiction writer John H. Richardson must be on Crump’s speed dial.

http://www.esquire.com/features/americans-2012/trayvon-martin-1212

TRAYVON
Lost in all the horrible politics surrounding his death is the story of a boy. Before he became yet another flash point in America’s painful and never-ending racial drama, Trayvon Martin was just a normal teenager. Here, at last, is the story of what was lost on that February night.

By John H. Richardson on November 13, 2012

[JPG]

Such a cute and gentle little tyke

[bgill]

I should have been there to protect him

No, you should have been there to teach him right from wrong but instead you taught him to be a gangsta just like you. BTW, Daddy, I caught your "Burn this ____ down!" video and what's the initiation for the Bloods these days?

[napscoordinator]

I feel bad for the family. What an awful holiday season for them. The family didn’t do anything wrong and yet they are punished with no son anymore. Sad story for all.

[chris37]

LOL @ that title!

Not even going to bother to read what comes after it though.

[dadgum]

THE AGONY OF THE BLACK (Absent) FATHER IN AMERICA

Boo effing hoo.

Once a racist “victim” - always a racist “victim”.

[Kenny Bunk]

Click here

[Col Freeper]

Did ole “Dad” get the “gentle giant” a headstone yet?