The Hip Hop Anthropologist

...this is an outrageous miscarriage of justice ... ...and if the system  worked for blacks equally, the Judge would have immediately set aside the verdict in the interest of justice... you simply cannot condemn a  promising young man with absolutely no previous criminal involvement to  prison for 12-years; and, brand him with a lifetime sexual predator label when he's only 20-years old! And only had a consensual, (if ill-advised) make-out session with a 17-year-old, which is the age of consent in virtually every state of the union. That white jury didn't see him as anything other than an archetypal, hypersexual beast defiling a virtuous, little, young, corn-fed, alabaster beauty. Beauty and the beast. The King  Kong metaphor played out in a cramped courtroom surrounded by flat plains filled with endless cornfields in the heart[less]land of  America... Welcome to Kansas... After all, it was the scene of the infamous Scopes "Monkey" trial back in the day. Forget...

   Your name means “a child who has been desired for a long time” in Àwọn ọmọ Yorùbá – the language of the Yoruba people in Africa. This is what you mean to me; you are my air and heir, baby boy. A long awaited son.    You are also a sweet child with a mischievous smile, generous nature, loving spirit, adventurous soul and inquisitive mind unlike those vipers who have rudely intruded on our dreams, hopes and aspirations. You are a handsome likeness of myself; a boy that I love, covet and miss immeasurably with each passing day, week, month and year.    Every waking moment you break through my reverie painfully reminding me that I am being hindered; stymied in a primordial quest to protect, nurture and guide you into manhood like most fathers want to do for their children free of ' isms ' that substitute a bigoted white man's paternal presumptions (ill-equipped intellectually, ill-suited temperamentally and ill-placed by virtue of his profession to ...