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This week, Lester Dixon and an Anonymous writer went back and forth
about “Our Stolen Generation: Brenda.”
Anonymous:
She does indeed have the abortion if you've read any of the
follow ups about Brenda .
Lester Dixon:
No she doesn't have an abortion if you watched the film
the police officer told boo-boo that "she was no longer missing, and she
gave birth to her child" It's sad how drug's ruin people lives, this documentary
was important because it didn't show a black person's addiction, which is the
norm, but rather a cast of white crack heads so it home with me more because
drugs are like bullets they have no name in the life it destroys. R.I.P to all
those who have passed due to drugs...
Anonymous:
You act like she had all of these great morals considering
abortion but clearly you weren't paying attention in the film. I believe she
would have had the abortion had she not spent all of her money on crack. Did
you not hear her say "Let's see if it's young enough to slaughter" in
the film? How about that she abused crack and heroin during her entire
prengancy. Abortion was on her "to-do list" of which nothing she got
done simply because she's an addict. Did I feel bad for her? Yes. Does she have
good morals? No, you've got to be kidding yourself.
Lester Dixon:
ok
you talking about what you believe, let's talk fact's. how many babies are born
to addiction? a whole lot you writing on a computer look it up. i looked up
"Brenda's Baby" from the movie and indeed she had the baby. and a
baby born to a crack mother may not be a healthy baby but they do exist. what
morals did she have every thing she said she was going to do she didn't follow
thru. she's leaving boo boo, never did that. she's going to rehab, never stuck
with that. got an abortion, never go it done. and to be honest she didn't
impact my life what so ever. what she did do was show me what not to do. so not
to be harsh but really who's kidding who. because i'm not kidding myself...
Anonymous:
Let us not judge Brenda for being a drug addict and
prostitute. Why not judge the men who used her services, are they not more to
blame? Brenda left this world after having her baby. she chose life for her
baby instead of death. It may be the one good and morally correct she she has
ever done.
Thank you for commenting and for making “Our Stolen Generation: Brenda”
one of the more popular articles in the series. The resulting conversations
have offered me the wonderful opportunity to reiterate what I found so
compelling about the film, “High on Crack Street” and about Brenda in
particular.
Brenda was a crack-addicted prostitute who accidentally got pregnant—a natural
result of a life spent fornicating for drug money. Though she was uneducated,
and rejected so many moral codes, she instinctively knew what many university
professors and liberals claim not to know—that abortion as birth control is
immoral.
She is far from a pillar of virtue (Who, amongst us, isn’t?) That’s
hardly germane. What matters is that liberals insist that the road to morality
is rejecting that morals exist at all—that they are a construct foisted upon us
by conservative forces. My point is that basic morality is within reach of even
the most ignorant and damaged among us. Brenda was both, ignorant and damaged,
yet she knew instinctively that killing her own child—even to spare him from a
life of destitution—was horribly wrong.
I look forward to future discussions about this and about other topics
on the site.
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