Samantha Oborator is a 20-year-old girl from London that left with school mates on what the English call 'holiday.' We here in the U.S. consider that to be a short trip or break. While there, it is said that she was in possession of 1.5 pounds of heroin. There is a discrepancy whether it was in her luggage or on her person, nonetheless, she was apprehended with it in Laos.
Laos is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia. The prison conditions are beyond deplorable and the prison population is mixed gender, meaning men and women share the same space.
In this area of the world, being found with more than one pound of these drugs is punishable by death, the only way a woman can escape being put to death is to be pregnant. Ms. Oborator is now pregnant, though she was not when she was arrested.
The situation is tragic for so many reasons. However underneath it all, the greatest tragedy is that somehow drugs were found on the young girl. That is what we have been told. How the drugs got in her possession is something else.
Over and over again examples are given about how young people, our children make these split decisions that are wrong and end up ruining there lives.
How many young Black men wake up in the morning and just decide to run to their friends house just to hold on to a gun? You know, just in case. How many young girls decide they will hold onto their drug dealing boyfriend's bags? Just for a minute. How many Mother's think that they can leave their children with a 'friend' for the evening? Even though the babies hate being with that friend every time.
When will we begin to calculate the question "What is the worst thing that can happen?" When will we begin to put our minds on the path to correct these types of errors. They are not mistakes.
Minister Farrakhan has taught us that mistakes are made unintentionally, errors are willfully carried-out actions. Whenever we find ourselves contemplating breaking laws, (beit a moral, ethical, spiritual or man-made law) we bear a degree of responsibility for the outcome.
I don't know whether or not the young Sister is actually guilty of this crime for which she lost her freedom. I do know that she is an example of many things that are wrong with this world and with the way we see the world.
Let's try and teach our children to calculate worse case scenario outcomes. This will teach them to consider the 'what ifs' they know and avoid the 'what ifs' they don't know.
Laos is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia. The prison conditions are beyond deplorable and the prison population is mixed gender, meaning men and women share the same space.
In this area of the world, being found with more than one pound of these drugs is punishable by death, the only way a woman can escape being put to death is to be pregnant. Ms. Oborator is now pregnant, though she was not when she was arrested.
The situation is tragic for so many reasons. However underneath it all, the greatest tragedy is that somehow drugs were found on the young girl. That is what we have been told. How the drugs got in her possession is something else.
Over and over again examples are given about how young people, our children make these split decisions that are wrong and end up ruining there lives.
How many young Black men wake up in the morning and just decide to run to their friends house just to hold on to a gun? You know, just in case. How many young girls decide they will hold onto their drug dealing boyfriend's bags? Just for a minute. How many Mother's think that they can leave their children with a 'friend' for the evening? Even though the babies hate being with that friend every time.
When will we begin to calculate the question "What is the worst thing that can happen?" When will we begin to put our minds on the path to correct these types of errors. They are not mistakes.
Minister Farrakhan has taught us that mistakes are made unintentionally, errors are willfully carried-out actions. Whenever we find ourselves contemplating breaking laws, (beit a moral, ethical, spiritual or man-made law) we bear a degree of responsibility for the outcome.
I don't know whether or not the young Sister is actually guilty of this crime for which she lost her freedom. I do know that she is an example of many things that are wrong with this world and with the way we see the world.
Let's try and teach our children to calculate worse case scenario outcomes. This will teach them to consider the 'what ifs' they know and avoid the 'what ifs' they don't know.
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