When Outrageous is In-rageous

She yelled and spat venom. She threw curses and implored all people of the world do the same. She was the mother of Natalie Holloway. Remember the young girl now missing in Aruba? She was talking about the boys released after weeks of detention for lack of evidence of any involvement in the disappearance of this Alabama girl. In a similar case, the boys could not have been detained more than 48 hours under U.S. Laws. She was unhappy on their release even after a very thorough investigation not only by the Aruban authorities, but also under a close supervision by the all powerful F.B.I. , as if she is the only mother in the world.

The question is where she was when her girl was learning to go out alone on the beaches with strangers at 2’o clock in the morning. Where was her loving motherhood when her young girl was learning to give blow jobs in the back seats of the cars? And now, she wants every nation on the earth to shut their doors on these boys whom she has declared guilty to mask her own careless parenting. She is a classic upper class case of a dysfunctional family who wouldn’t miss the spotlight even at the price of their own daughter. For God sake, this shouldn’t be misconstrued as a callous indifference to a mother’s ultimate suffering. This is a reaction to the arrogant selfishness that is sweeping across this country all due to misguided pride in self and the demeaning of everyone else. God Bless America and the rest go to hell.

Just because these boys are of a different skin color, you wouldn’t give them the chance you would like for your own son. You would like to be above all laws just because it’s you. Some of us would understand her situation better than others, but most of us who saw this on national television would cringe back to our lonesome fears of the segregated past. She is blessed to have the resources that millions of mothers around the world would die for. This is the time to acknowledge modesty and show grace, instead of falling in the abyss of selfishness and wreak the bonds that takes decades to build with a single sentence in front of the mike.