Johnathan Zeno
Stories (2/0)
I Will Protect You
Tasha scoops up her son, Rodney, and kisses him on the forehead. "No matter what, I will always protect you. Before anyone touches you, they will have to go through me." Five-year-old Rodney laughs. "Momma can beat anyone." They leave the park that is at the center of their apartment complex and enter apartment 342. Rodney runs to his action figures in the corner of their front room. Tasha goes to clean and change into her nightgown. They hear knocks on the door. She rushes from her restroom. Luckily, she was finishing up her change of wardrobe. She opens the door to see Officer Warren staring her down with his hands on the belt. "How are ya', Ma'am"? "I'm fine, officer. Uhm, Can I help you with something?" "You surely can. You can help me by putting your hands behind your back. You're under arrest." "For what?" Please turn around Ma'am." Rodney senses the rising tension between his mother and the man. He walks over to her side. Officer Warren forces her around and handcuffs her as she starts to panic, asking, "Why am I being arrested? What did I do?" Ma'am, you are under arrest for the assault of a Misses Hathaway." "What about my son?" "Your son will be taken downtown and picked up by a family member. If there is no family member, he will be placed in temporary foster care." "This is ridiculous!" Tell it to the judge Ma'am."
By Johnathan Zeno2 years ago in Families
Immigrants
The immigrants from Nicaragua are forced to wear ankle bracelets. You might think this is justified. I mean they are entering your country illegally, taking your jobs, and committing crimes. Who knows the crimes they committed at home? Who knows what they're running from? But I see it differently. These natives are coming to a land that was stolen, robbed of its people and nature to form this country and the rooster is coming home to crow. They have more right to be here than me and you. They should be arriving to the indigenous people, instead they are harassed and forced to succumb to invaders who have transmogrified the term to fit their ego and ease their guilt. These borders are nothing but geographical lies. The immigrants wearing these ankle bracelets share the story of genocide and slavery just as the so-called freed people in the country they travel to. The finances they pursue are marked with evil men who despised them just as they despised their property, who were actually people. Now the stream that was created by blood has trickled down to the ocean of South, "America," and the drug demand has incurred violence where it is forced to be produced by greedy fiends. Now these bracelets are chained to the ankles following the middle passage that is now captained with clean hands and free consciousness. They are not willingly coming here. They are forced by the world currency of devils. They are forced by philosophy of slavery only to embark upon more slavery. These bracelets are a violation of human rights but will not be seen as so, since a sovereign nation is being, "Invaded." Yet there is still no justice for Palestine. Yet there are still corporations of South African apartheid. Yet the native and true people of America still have to look at their home being governed by their murderers. So, if this is an invasion, I celebrate God answering prayers. I thank God for being who God is. Truth.
By Johnathan Zeno2 years ago in Education