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I begin to wonder if white is the color of things to be worshipped in this world. If it's the only color to be worshipped in this world.
I begin to wonder if her Bible-thumping Jesus-loving is an act to provide her with the illusion of certainty and stability in the world. Deep down, if she has sat on the ceiling before, she must know there are other ways, other truths, other powers. My mother runs from this power and these truths with the alcohol and the white rocks. Ms. Jannie runs with her Jesus and a religion she knows is not always the answer. Right now, she knows it is not the answer.
My brothers are no longer children, and they're already trapped in a school system that is failing them, just like the mayor says.
Then eventually wails from my mother herself, when she realized what was happening, what she had done. The authorities didn't believe her, of course, because she wasn't a child in their eyes. She was a black child. And a black child is just as guilty as a black adult in the eyes of the law. So they dragged her away in handcuffs while she screamed, "Noooo! It was an ccident! I didn't mean to! No, please! Noooo!" She screamed with the intensity and high pitch of a child who has just lost everything. She was only ten years old, but she knew her life was over from that point on. She decided right then that there could be no redemption for her and that she must be irreversibly broken.
