“I’m 72 years old, and I still miss my daddy,” he said while crying.
Bawled my eyes out. The state took that boys father, who was himself just 19 years old, and killed him. They robbed that boy of the bond of a father’s love. How does that not destroy a family? My son is around Tommy’s age right now. Imagining the terror his parents must have felt, and the new reality that they now lived in, just makes me bawl my eyes out. That poor boy, never had a fucking chance.
Bawled my eyes out. The state took that boys father, who was himself just 19 years old, and killed him. They robbed that boy of the bond of a father’s love. How does that not destroy a family? My son is around Tommy’s age right now. Imagining the terror his parents must have felt, and the new reality that they now lived in, just makes me bawl my eyes out. That poor boy, never had a fucking chance.
[Insert “that’s the neat part…” meme]
Not only is that outcome completely intended, it also gets used for victim-blaming, to perpetuate the racist notion of the “absent black father.”