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[quote=Anonymous]"Ferguson, MO is on my mind, and that burning coal of fear I carry with me has been fanned into a roaring fire -- again. I am angry, weepy, weary, sad and very afraid deep in my core. 
I do not scare easily. But, this continued killing of young Black men scares me.
I have two sons. One was born the color of coffee with too much cream. Usually, by the end of summer, both him and his sister are a beautiful bronzed, caramel shade. My boy has a killer smile and a soft huge heart. And, my grandson looks like him. Baby Drew is ambiguously brown; his chubby cheeks and dimpled thighs are a molten mocha shade that comes from having a "Mixed" family tree. 
I have had the "How To Behave WHEN (not if) You Are Pulled Over By The Police" conversation with my son one too many times. "Keep your hands visible on the steering wheel at 10 and 2". Say "Yes Sir" and "No Sir". ASK before you reach for the registration that is in the glove-box. Etc. Etc. Each time he listened to me. He knows the drill. 
That does not lessen my fear. I have been afraid for him, for as long as I have been his mother. Now Mama Carol is afraid for Baby Drew too.
The burning coal of fear I carry within me has once again been fanned into a roaring fire. The tragedy and horror that engulfed the short lives of Darius Simmons, Trayvon Martin, Emmitt Till, Jordan Davis, Michael Dunn and so many more young men of color ... physically hurts me. I feel battered and bruised. 
But ...somehow that hurt and fear have not eclipsed the other fire I carry within me. The twin flames of Faith and Hope still burn brightly inside me. They have not gone out. 
But … Dear Ones, they are dimmer today. Today, both are dimmer.

-Carol Thomas Cissel, Interim Minister, TUS - The Unitarian Society of East Brunswick, NJ"[/quote]

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