Weekly Column: WRighteous – #ThanksGivingLove
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Because they saw beauty in you before you ever did.
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“And when I looked down at my hands, I couldn’t tell his blood from mine.”
They were massacred by, yes, yet another white male terrorist. No doubt…no doubt…they each had a story; a life worth telling and living.
And then, when all seemed quiet and safe, he ripped and yanked the tape off her mouth with his teeth and he kissed her – long and hard and caught her tears.
Here, over here, look at me – look at me, I know you – you won’t win because nasty has an expiration date, and your time is up, buddy.
Thank you, Mr. Jamal Khashoggi, for finding and excavating and writing the words that uncovered the truth. We will not allow your death to be in vain.
There was the pregnancy; the one where I behaved like a needy, desperate young woman; using that pregnancy as a weapon to try and get that man to love me, to want me — to want me and the baby. “Why don’t we abort you and keep the baby?” he finally said.
To deny us our memories, to discredit our pain, or to dismiss the moments we can’t recall is equivalent to assaulting us and raping us over and over and over again.
She decided that her life was worth saving, and that she would save it, she alone, and she would help other women save theirs…
On top of apologizing and making excuses, I gave him all the power, and he took it gladly, using it to scare me, to keep me small, to destroy me.