This would, on its face, not seem to be a Minneapolis issue. However, let me assure readers that it is a very pressing and important Minneapolis issue. Because it IS happening every day in every neighborhood and every community in our City of Minneapolis.
Booker, thank you for your post. It stimulated some terrible memories, but it is important. As a child I was abused and that left lasting scars. But as bad as that was I am not sure if the memory of watching when my mother was being knocked down and kicked around was not even worse, and left even deeper scars. It is something that is indelibly imprinted into my mind, and into the minds of all children who experience it. For that reason I have on occasion severely physically abused, (beat the hell out of), a few men who I encountered when they were in the act of abusing women. Almost always the person being abused is their wives or girl friends who they considered as "belonging" to them. Where men get the idea that beating a woman is their "Right" is beyond me, but some do have it and even worse some women even share it. Men being even mildly abusive to women still brings on a rage in me whose depth is difficult to explain to someone who has not also experienced that helplessness as a child to help and protect ones own mother. When I gave my mothers eulogy I said she must be in heaven cause she certainly lived in a hell during her life. A terrible thing to have to say at one's own mother's funeral. After the service her sisters came, agreed with me, and thanked me because "it needed to be said". It is never too early to intervene in abusive situations. Yes we are our "sisters" keepers! Again, thank you for the post. Jim Graham' Ventura Village /mpls TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
