One of the blogs I follow is Aging Capriciously by Dr. John Persico. John is first and foremost a humanitarian, but is also many other things including an educator and a business consultant. He sees with clearer eyes than many today. His post from yesterday brought a tear to my eyes and … I just had to share it. Thank you, John, for all that you do.
Here is a story that I heard on NPR this week. It is a tale of a remarkable little girl. A tale that deserves to be retold. It goes like this.
In a small town (Population 9,027) located in northwestern Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, about 16 miles (26 km) west of New York City and 6 miles (9.7 km) north-west of Newark, a little White girl aged nine went out to work on a science project and to help her community. She had learned that spotted lanternflies were a nuisance species and she decided to collect as many as she could and use them in a science exhibit to educate others about them. Until this week, the most noteworthy thing about Caldwell was that it was the birthplace of Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. He was the only…
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That is quite terrifying how a grown person would feel about a young little girl. What a world we live in. Glad that she’s ok and got recognized by Yale for her work!
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It is terrifying and there’s far too much of it here. As Sheree said, it’s great that Yale honoured her in such a way, and that she is safe, but how many others weren’t so lucky? Sigh.
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What the …redacted…did that jerk think she was going to do. A little bitty 9 year old?
Well we have a new word for panicky idiot…’What a Lawshe!’
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Amazing, isn’t it, that a full-grown man is so afraid of a small girl that he has to call the police to come protect him from her? Unfortunately, there are many Lawshes in this country today. Fear of ‘other’ seems to be rampant … hence, they all carry guns so they can “protect” themselves from “other”. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr …
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He’s in the running for Jerk of the Year, and that’s against some pretty tough opposition.
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So much competition for that title that I can’t even keep track of ’em all!
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True.
Of course many of them could be filtered out into the ‘A/hole of the Year’ and into that very special category:
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True!!! I’ve considered reprising my “Idiot of the Week” feature, but in the back of my mind I can hear our friend Keith saying,, “No, Jill, just no.” But there are so many great candidates for the award!
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Oh us ‘firebrands’ .
Are we not incorrigible?😉
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Indeed we are!!! Sometimes I think our families probably wish we were a bit less fiery!
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Yep.
More cartoons. That’s the answer.
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Oh that one was just PERFECT!!!! Thank you, Roger, for the smiles!
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🌞
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With such neighbors you don’t need further enemies. 😉 Thanks for sharing the post. I am sure the girl was very traumatizised. xx Michael
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Agreed, my friend. Sigh. Yes, at the age of nine, most kids haven’t been exposed to racism yet, but she got a loud, rude wake-up call. I hate this country sometimes. Sigh. xx
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people like Gordon make me so angry, saying that he was scared of a little 9-year-old girl on his call to the police. What a jerk. People need to stop calling the cops for the dumbest of things. gordon is an idiot.
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Damn straight.
At least he has been made to look ridiculous.
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Agreed on all counts, my friend. He judged her and misread her intent simply because of the colour of her skin. That is the very definition of racism.
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The story had a lovely ending for Bobbi but………..
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Yeah … BUT what about the others? Sigh.
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Exactly
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Shoot first. Try to cover it up later. Little Bobbi was lucky. Too many are not.
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You’re so right … far too many are not.
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A sad and yet joyful tale. I do even understand that man’s reaction, although I don’t think he is right. For so many years and decades, a wrongful and humiliating attitude was ‘de rigour ‘ and these ppl haven’t learned that the world has changed. I remember when a young kid myself, we had some immigrant children in our classes. Not ‘even’ black or yellow ones. Just ‘other than we’, with strange names such as Aurelio, Germaine…. and we took our time to let them play with us. Or black wild curls… heaven! What happened here?
That was good old Switzerland in the late 50th – and I still know ppl NOW who try to blame everything bad on the ‘immigrants’. Sounds v. American, doesn’t it?
I wish that beautiful girl a great future. We desperately need more like her. A tear here too…. in a good way (and back to barking/hacking cough for me!)
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People seem, by nature, to reject change, to reject that which is ‘different’ from them. I don’t understand it, for I have never been a part of a “herd” or felt in any way superior to others, but more and more I see the fear people have of those who do not look, act, and think exactly as they do. The world cannot survive unless we all realize that we are all part of the same world, all on this globe together, all have the same hopes and dreams, regardless of the colour of our skin, our religion, our gender … we are all humans. I just wish everybody would start acting like it!!! Sigh.
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