Author’s Comments:
This is not only personal but is coming from a fellow Black, as you are. So I’m not going to mince my words and will tell you like I see it is! It’s among the easiest things in the world to mindlessly use a knife, take another person’s life and in the process of doing that think you’re actually big for doing so. Well you’re wrong my friend, you aren’t and all it actually does is to show how gullible you really are to the criminal propaganda of the street. How very little or no value at all you place on human life including your own and what a waste you’ve made not only of your victim’s life but your own as well when with some reasonable forethought and a completely different approach to both these lives, yours and the person you chose to kill, could have with basic commonsense combined with critical deliberation been positively turned around in a fashion for the good of yourself, the society you belong to and overall humanity itself. But if you can’t or don’t want to see that then perhaps you’re bound for the right place if you aren’t already there: jail and possibly even on death row.

And if that’s all the recompense you’re going to repay your dear Momma for carrying you those 9 months and 2 weeks and the agonizing pain she experienced giving birth to you combined with all the people who love you and have tirelessly endeavoured to let you know this while you were growing up from the state of babyhood, through your pubescent years and into young adulthood, then with that kind of blatant ingratitude on your part in gratuitously indulging as you are in your criminal behaviour all I can say is that you have a very serious problem to which you must quite urgently attend.

I’m not preaching at you but simply suggesting that you take stock of your life and realize that there are other more constructive ways to conduct your life. So let me be absolutely frank and honest about this and categorically state that I’m not asking you to be the willing target of other people’s wrongdoings whatever these are; nor am I suggesting either that you gratuitously turn the other cheek in relation to what they’re doing; but even so I‘d like to implore you to do what my beloved and wise maternal Grand, and we all know how important and prized grandmothers are in all Black communities, who has played an instrumental role throughout my own life told me.

When you see trouble coming your way she said, give it a wide berth and walk away from it; if it should follow and continue to stalk you in spite of your doing so still keep on walking away from it while intelligently maintaining a keen eye on what it’s up to she advised, and only if the person or persons involved refuse to heed this pragmatic and sensible response of yours, then arrogantly on their part interpret your conciliatory gesture and actions as a sign of cowardice or weakness, or wilfully opt to misinterpret them not as restraint on your part but fear instead and consequently is/are about to attack you, should you act in self-defence with every resource at your command. That way you’ll have a moral right and hopefully even in this discernibly bigoted western society where it’s the white Caucasian man or woman that controls both at home and significantly too in other countries that idiotically let them dictate what happens there, you’ll have the law on your side. Adding astutely that even criminals and especially those with nous don’t pick fights that are utterly pointless since with them it’s all about hubris; and deny them that and they’re like a rudderless boat all at sea. So believe me when I say that their pride alone won’t let them willingly fall into the position. Now my friends it’s entirely up to you!