This is so painful. To me it is the microcosm of the macrocosm. We live in a violent world. A world where our children are being exposed to violence perpertrated on them and is part their surroundings everyday, albeit television schools, and especially in their own families.
A world where parents don't sit and talk to their children with love and devotion. A world where Black women particularly, because they are usually the ones raising their children, do not know who they are as mothers of civilization thus not able to share this knowledge with their children. A world where fathers abandon their children with little remorse, until it is too late. Both suffering from what this child is suffering from, self-hate.
A child who hates her little self so much that she could kill her little friend speaks a lot to how she feels about herself, her anger, her low self-esteem.
Dr. August Wilson, Dr. Niam Akbar, Kwaanza Kunjufu and many others have written books on the pyschlogical perils our people face in this country.
This hurts me to the heart. Oh ancestors, oh God, please help us!!!