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Human Shields
March on Mamas, I support you.

But would not Rosie O'Donnel be more effective as a human shield in some war torn area like...

I have at 7:30 am finished my ablutions in the bathroom which is in Mandy's bedroom when the doorbell rings and Mandy squints open one eye toward the bedside clock and says--7:30?

It is 17-year-old, KaKa, at my door with my newspaper in hand and unwrapped from its protective plastic. The Metro section has been separated.

"There is something you wanted to read?"

"Oh, yeah, Ima put it back, Mr. Jim, I uh just came to get my flags," and she enters the foyer and picks up what must be some sort of drill team practice flags. I take the paper from her and she leaves.

The front page announces 55% of Orleans Parish fourth graders, and 63% of eight graders failed the state mandated LEAP tests and will therefore not be passing to the next grade.

Kids don't read enough but yesterday about the same time I was screaming about broken eggs, two blocks closer to the Bayou, and one over, on St. Ann, two boys made the ultimate sacrifice to change all that. Because kids will read the Metro section to see which of their friends and acquaintances got murdered the day before. It is pertinent to their lives. That's what I knew when I saw KaKa reading the Metro this morning at 7:30. She could not give a rat's ass that Morial wants friends as judges, or, Bus that got stuck in Quarter is fined. But, 2 men gunned down on a corner at midday, hits her where she lives, or actually dead smack between where she lives, and where she hangs out much of the time.

So March on Mothers, there is much work to be done.
- jimlouis 5-13-2000 2:55 pm [link] [add a comment]