[So this mornng my friend sent me this] The tears of a Mother ... and I replied

[I'm let to believe these are my friend's words and not something someone else posted, but no matter, my response is still the same.]

The tears of a Mother
So, this morning as we were watching the never ending stream of negative things happening in the world the story of two young black people being harassed in Atlanta came on the TV. My kids were silent which I was glad to hear the story without any loud screaming. Saddly, my heart would be broken moments later as my 6 year old asks “why are police killing people.” I was stunned and tear that I could let go came to my eyes ( as I write this they are coming now.) what do I say, this issue on justice is clearly not white and black ( as the officers associated with this case are Black.) What did I say, the only thing I could “ the police are there to protect and serve but sometimes people abuse this power.” Did she understand? Did I say enough? Should I stop her from watching the news? To the 1st question, I simply don’t know. To the 2nd question, I simply don’t know. To the third question, I simply don’t know!!!!! But I looked in my husbands eyes and asked “could this happen to her (today, in this world) and the answer is YES. Shit, the answer is YES and I brought her into this world knowing that the answer was YES. Is knowledge power yes but only if the person with that know can handle what is happening. Being a parent (being a mother) is so hard and I think it’s about to get even harder as we are black parents with black children in a world that hates us💔💔💔

[My response follows.]

To answer one of your questions - everyone should stop watching the news. Everyone should stop watching the TV. It's not news, it's not entertainment, it's PROGRAMMING (very powerful programming). I have not watched "news" for decades, and over the years I have stopped watching all TV on and off till finally 2+ years ago I stopped watching all television programming completely. I cancelled cable. Now the first thing people say is how do you know what's going on? Well first, TV NEVER tells you what is REALLY going on, and 2nd I absolutely guarantee that I know far far far more of what's really going on than people who only get "information" from TV and social media. Children watching all of this, especially black children are learning FEAR, the are learning to feel DIS-EMPOWERED. Yes they should know what the world is like, but on their parent's terms not the TV's (i.e. corporate/globalist owned and controlled) terms with their narrative, images, sounds, subliminal programming etc etc. It is said that the first 7-10 years of a person's life will ultimately determine who they turn out to be. Who or what will a black child turn out to be when they grew up feeling afraid (of the world) and hated (by the world)? How difficult will it be for them to overcome that, if they can at all? XOXO 😘