Mammy Bear: The Terrible Actions of Shiquonn Kennedy

Most parents will do anything to protect their children. Some will lie in court and take the perjury charge. Some will even go to their child’s school in search of assaulting a classmate.

The latter is the case with Shiquonn Kennedy who trespassed on school grounds in Memphis, Tennessee to help fight a minor with her daughter.

Is this a sign that a mother will safeguard her offspring at all costs or that a woman with enough sense should know better than to go onto school property in search of a beatdown with a child.

Kennedy is the clear example of a mammy. While it seems on the surface that she was a savior of her child’s honor, the irrationality of her actions paint a different picture than anything else. The portrait is filled with pain and misunderstanding. The portrait looks like a deranged woman who was actually in the know and completely cognizant of her actions.

Because she flipped out and committed crimes paints another picture that displays her unwillingness to settle matters rationally. She could have called the school, sent an email, got on Instagram, something to contact an administrator or the teacher. She could’ve gotten in touch with the girl’s parents and sat down and discussed the problem through reason.

Yet she chose the mammy way out of this issue. She looked at her circumstances and decided that the only option was to cross the line and forget about thinking. This lack of thought reflects on her own piss poor upbringing, allegedly.

She probably lacked the direction and instruction to properly deal with other people. If she had been rational and self-interested she wouldn’t be behind bars in the Shelby County Jail.

In time, she may provide a teaching lesson for herself and her daughter. As a result of both of them attacking the young lady, they will soon know what the law thinks of such actions.

Given that Memphis is already going through bad stories coming out of the area including the highly publicized death of Tyre Nichols, the mother should have known better and shown such wisdom to her daughter.

Kennedy represents the mother who goes over the bounds of the law in order to protect her children. In some contexts, this is permissible. This is not one of them. Her blatant disregard for the capacity to think and the letter of the law puts her in the same grouping as the worst criminals.

The mammification of her life said go out and seek and destroy or attempt to, anyway, a minor. Someone else’s child had to suffer the blows because Kennedy couldn’t get her own thoughts together. She let loose of her principles and jettisoned any recourse for actual thought.

If she had just used her brain and contemplated the consequences of her actions, she could have been a dedicated parent who looked out for the welfare of her own child. Rather, she was totally selfless and out of control. She considered every ideal of destroying her own reputation and self-worth. Her own selfishness evaporated when she chose to go to the school to attack a student. The mammy in her came out in full force and disallowed her rational abilities to take control.

What Kennedy may want to do is actually stand up as a woman of integrity. Her ideas may have been in the right place (keep my daughter safe) but she opted, sadly, to withdraw from the realm of figuring things out for the good.

In all, Kennedy and her daughter should consult The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand to fully comprehend what it takes to protect one’s own neck without stepping on anyone else’s who isn’t a threat.