Can BLACK BOYS find PEACE on EARTH?
LEARNING about the THINGS in LIFE that
really MATTER should begin at BIRTH!
really MATTER should begin at BIRTH!
The very first thing that my FAMILY
taught me was the 10-COMMANDMENTS and I am THANKFUL for that!
taught me was the 10-COMMANDMENTS and I am THANKFUL for that!
Now for the REST of the STORY:
Otis Hixon Jr., a 19-year-old coach for his
church's 8-to-12-year-old basketball team, was shot dead
Tuesday night in Marrero, a week after he told his parents that
somebody - somebody he
wouldn't name - wanted to kill him. Hixon's family, active
members at New Orleans' Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, have been plunged into
the same ocean of grief that has overwhelmed so many others, the same sorrow
that has overshadowed so many who have loved and raised and cared for young
black boys and men.
church's 8-to-12-year-old basketball team, was shot dead
Tuesday night in Marrero, a week after he told his parents that
somebody - somebody he
wouldn't name - wanted to kill him. Hixon's family, active
members at New Orleans' Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, have been plunged into
the same ocean of grief that has overwhelmed so many others, the same sorrow
that has overshadowed so many who have loved and raised and cared for young
black boys and men.
The young Hixon, who reportedly had promise on
the basketball court, experienced a crisis of faith after his best friend,
Lydell Hartford Jr., was killed at his Waggaman home in July. Hartford, a
linebacker at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, was shot
accidentally by a friend horsing around with a .38-caliber pistol.
Hixon couldn't understand, his father Otis Hixon Sr. said, why God didn't
intervene, why God didn't keep an innocent person, a young man with such
potential, from dying at such a young age.
the basketball court, experienced a crisis of faith after his best friend,
Lydell Hartford Jr., was killed at his Waggaman home in July. Hartford, a
linebacker at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, was shot
accidentally by a friend horsing around with a .38-caliber pistol.
Hixon couldn't understand, his father Otis Hixon Sr. said, why God didn't
intervene, why God didn't keep an innocent person, a young man with such
potential, from dying at such a young age.
The Book of Psalms includes the kind of
frustration, the kind of disappointment, dismay and bewilderment that Hixon's
family says he was going through. I don't know that it's possible to be a
person of faith and not experience some great loss, some great pain that makes
you question everything you believed when you adopted that faith. Most of us
are given the length of days necessary to work through such questions. Many of
us reach a place where our disappointments don't have a toxic effect on our
beliefs.
frustration, the kind of disappointment, dismay and bewilderment that Hixon's
family says he was going through. I don't know that it's possible to be a
person of faith and not experience some great loss, some great pain that makes
you question everything you believed when you adopted that faith. Most of us
are given the length of days necessary to work through such questions. Many of
us reach a place where our disappointments don't have a toxic effect on our
beliefs.
Whoever killed Hixon seems to have stopped the
Waggaman teenager from reaching that spiritual maturity. Whoever killed Hixon
has likely made other young boys ask some uncomfortable questions. "This
is going to be traumatic for them," Franklin Avenue's athletic director
said. "The younger kids looked up to him as a coach, especially with his
basketball skills and his encouragement to them."
Waggaman teenager from reaching that spiritual maturity. Whoever killed Hixon
has likely made other young boys ask some uncomfortable questions. "This
is going to be traumatic for them," Franklin Avenue's athletic director
said. "The younger kids looked up to him as a coach, especially with his
basketball skills and his encouragement to them."
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The NAAWP hordes no CONTENTION for the YOUNG MAN in the PRECEEDING
STORY and will keep HIM and his FAMILY in our PRAYERS!
STORY and will keep HIM and his FAMILY in our PRAYERS!
This was TRULY a HORIFIC CRIME for his FAMILY, his COMMUNITY and
our NATION! From what we UNDERSTAND this YOUNG MAN came from good STOCK!
our NATION! From what we UNDERSTAND this YOUNG MAN came from good STOCK!
The only things that should really matter to U.S. on this EARTH
are our RELATIONSHIP with our HOLY FATHER, our FAMILY and our FRIENDS,
everything else is “FOOL’S GOLD”! (TRAINAISM)
are our RELATIONSHIP with our HOLY FATHER, our FAMILY and our FRIENDS,
everything else is “FOOL’S GOLD”! (TRAINAISM)
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