Still, I Hear Voices

PART 2 (C)

REPRESSED ANGER, OPPRESSED POPULATION, & COMPRESSED PRISON WALLS

- STILL, I HEAR VOICES!

For decades, many municipalities in America continue to spend millions to build more jails and prisons to warehouse, mostly, African American and Hispanic boys and men, even as many in the White population, not similarly impacted, remain disinterested and obtuse!

Many pointedly ignore the fact that the current socio-political order is, in many respects, so unjust. That the very unjust treatment of minorities helps to sow the very seeds of discord, disenchantment, and disillusionment in society! And that, beyond complicity and cooperation in their own continued emasculation and systemic oppression; to many of these incarcerated souls, any form of intuitive rebellion or resistance that is also especially being forcibly discouraged by the so-called mainstream, will more often than not be potentially violent in certain circumstances. Unfortunately, as set forth in sections A and B of this piece, it is the current context—at least in the case of the African American Community—that creates the problems with which it is often confronted!

These challenges have been exacerbated because the community has largely tried to “cope” with it, rather than effectively insisting on rectifying the underlying problem. It tries to “get along” in an artificially created and rigged socio-political (and policing) environment that, in many ways, is— decidedly inimical to its survival, much less the opportunity to thrive. Little wonder that in many communities, the African American male is deemed an “endangered species” almost reminiscent of the spotted owl, or the bald eagle, but without the political protection, the emotional appeal! or the nationalistic fervor and empathy that the spotted owl, or the bald eagle evoke.

Presently, our women’s social safety-nets are being yanked away, With the selective changes to social welfare programs, which continues nevertheless to adequately protect huge tax and other carved out advantages to big business, big pharma, big oil, big crypto, and others who have the resources to bankroll the reelection agenda of many members of congress who have since lost their moral compass, or forgotten the inspirational impetus behind their choice of public service in the first place.

Abandoned and disregarded in the political calculus, understandably angry, frustrated, or very confused, our children begin to lash out, desperate for attention. But cynical and indifferent, the political forces stick to the historically rigged playbook. And to make clear that resistance will not be tolerated, the vast and foreboding prison cells and ill-kept dungeons continue to fill. Now, more openly, private prison investors collude with those in law enforcement and others in the justice system to ensure a continuous supply of “customers," for the private prisons, thereby ensuring a mutually rewarding return on investment, as one hand now more brazenly washes the other!

One of the very few instances when a White American has a whiff of what it feels like to be a minority, and some of the attendant plights, of being a minority, is when they are incarcerated and find that the disproportionate majority of people behind bars are African American and Latino men and boys. Not because they commit more crimes relative to their population. But mostly because the justice system, unlike how it is often very tolerant and accommodating of White offenders, is usually all to ready and inclined to incarcerate minorities, even for smaller crimes, at a higher rate than it does White criminals.

At the end, the picture of the entire justice system is at best fraught. Far too many of the men in minority communities, sometimes striving to angrily assert their manhood, and thus reclaim their self-esteem, have either lost their way and their soul to addictive drugs, are in jail (as a consequence of being sanctioned for acting out some of their repressed anger, or misplaced frustration), or they’re very dead (thus unable to get a true reflective opportunity and a second chance to better organize and vote against the utterly rigged system).

The women are left alone to play the roles of both mom and dad for their innocent children, even as the state callously turns its back on them (ostensibly for their seeming over dependence on public assistance), while it lavishly spends millions protecting the spotted owl and to aid the business interests of their rich campaign contributors, all at the expense of our children’s health, wellness, education and safety.

And the children? Their voices could still be heard from the fearsome dungeons in which many of them are impatiently and mercilessly consigned to languish. Their cries could be heard from the depressed, unempowered, and pointedly ignored neighborhoods where they grow up, often in fatherless homes (because of the previously discussed vicious cycle that preys on our community’s men), some painfully watching their mother do tricks just for a snuff of coke, or a warm blanket during winter.

Their underage sisters are ravished by mother’s live-in boyfriend, or by the itinerant police officers demanding a blowjob. In the meantime, they watch drug dealers (routinely ignored by the police who have received protection money) flash hundred-dollar bills to entice the prettiest girls into their flashy sports cars. And they cannot fathom why we cannot understand how easy it was for their impressionable young minds to assimilate these environmental traumas and accept them as norm!

In the wake of their own travails, our children saw the bald eagle and the orphaned children of Somalia and Sarajevo get more airtime from the media highlighting their plights. Yet, the same news media, for the most part, only prefers to highlight our children’s foibles (often out of full context), instead of the better option of truly seeing them and their very humanity. An approach that would have been more elevating.

We continue to fail to see them as actual victims of their environment. The environment we, the adults, created, or mismanaged and allowed to fester and potentially ruin them. Instead, we self-righteously castigate them as SUPER-PREDATORS, and promptly banish them into dungeons, conveniently out of sight.

Presently, they speak to us. In your mind’s eye, you should picture most of them. In their juvenile and still unbroken voices. With broken hearts and dashed hopes, they speak to us. Even as we make no excuses for the terrible wrongs a few of them consciously committed. They nevertheless ask us, plaintively, and many with genuine obfuscation, deep from the dark recesses of their foreboding (physical and psychological) dungeons, they ask, - “HOW DID IT COME TO THIS? PRAY TELL, WHY ARE WE IN THIS PLACE?”

RE-IMAGINED (TONGUE-IN-CHEEK) DRAMATIZATION:

PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE:

Welcome back everyone. AGAIN, I AM YOUR HOST, YOUR GIRL, THE EVER PROUD, BLACK AND BEAUTIFUL, PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE. Before we turn to our discussion of the main article, again, for the benefit of viewers just joining us here in the US and around the world, my special guest today is the normally reclusive- and my former BOY-TOY IN COLLEGE- BILLIONAIRE Austin Words-Worthy.- Businessman, philanthropist, publisher and editor-in-Chief of TORCH INTERNATIONAL and THE COMMUNITY ADVOCATE QUARTERLY. Thanks again for doing this Austin.

We just completed our discussion of the featured editorial in the latest edition of your publications which is title- OBTUSE OR NOT OBTUSE- THAT IS THE QUESTION.

Now let’s do a deeper dive and discuss this edition’s featured article entitled- REPRESSED ANGER, OPPRESSED POPULATION AND COMPRESSED PRISON WALLS- STILL I HEAR VOICES.

AUSTIN:

He nods

Glad to

PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE:

By the way, as editor-in-Chief, why did you settle on this as the featured article for the current issue of your two publications?

AUSTIN:

My team and I felt that the issues are too relevant, too urgent, and very timely not to explore. Part of the goal is to hopefully reach and empower as many of our readers and the potentially well-meaning politicians who impact the lives of millions with their sometimes-incomplete or utterly flawed decision-making analysis.

As you’re aware, I have sponsored and also participated in many conferences and seminars where we bring in top-notch experts in many fields of science and technology, and the humanities, to share the outcomes of their well-funded and credible independent research so that society, through intelligent policies, may benefit from the outcomes of the relevant research.

PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE:

Makes sense. The whole point of investing in research by any society is partly to evaluate current challenges, and to identify potentially viable solutions

AUSTIN:

Exactly. Especially in the area of public health, general social wellness, juvenile justice, recidivism and equal access to justice for all,- which together form the connecting tissue and the focus of the feature article in this edition of our publication.

And as we argued in the article, in any country currently, or aspiring to be a truly free and fair society predicated on the egalitarian principles implicit in representative democracy and social equality, all of these issues would be found to be interconnected, and are therefore legitimate matters to be routinely considered and addressed by decision-makers when fashioning policies about general public health, social wellness. And, rather than settling for mere politically correct mutual toleration, it’s far better to seek enduring AMITY in our various COMMUNITIES.

PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE:

Well said. For example, you mentioned in the feature article that- AND I QUOTE- “according to some of the available research on the subject, while prison constructions continue to be a major growth industry in the United States at the present time, less is being invested, per capita on health care and true rehabilitation of previously incarcerated persons. And that due to cronyism and misdirected policies, the US spends the most on healthcare yet ranks 24th in the world in infant mortality rate!

And that if AFRICAN AMERICANS in the United States were considered separately as if they constituted a separate country, their health condition would rank 30th, even below some so-called third world countries!” YOU HERE THAT, MY PEOPLE?

She glares dramatically into the camera

AUSTIN:

Talking specifically about the minority groups in the United States, and African Americans in particular, given the majority of your audience, I should add that some of the outcomes of recent research on issues impacting BLACK AMERICANS and SOME OTHER MINORITY GROUPS IN AMERICA appear to conclude that the causal connections to the SOCIO-ECONOMIC and PUBLIC HEALTH CARE DILEMMA on them have not materially changed.

Contrary to some unsupported ideas and conclusions being peddled in some quarters, in fact, based on credible studies, there is no single factor that would cause BLACK PEOPLE in AMERICA to suffer significant disparity in their health status compared to other races or groups in the country.

PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE:

Consequently, as noted in your featured article, the reason for any such disparity in the health outcomes of BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA, GENERALLY SPEAKING, must be due to factors other than biology or skin pigmentation

AUSTIN:

Correct! In fact, it has been shown by research that the use of race as a factor in evaluating health status has serious negative consequences in the diagnosis of ailments, in the treatment of diseases, and in the potentially harmful assumptions about racial beliefs, behavior or biology. In reality, race merely serves the ideological objectives of particular groups in society - like cynically giving a dog a bad name to justify hanging it. Using the dubious science to justify racist and sometimes viciously harmful policies

PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE:

Including exploitative policies like what was inflicted on the BLACK TUSKEGEE AIRMEN. Of course, one should commend the former CLINTON WHITE HOUSE for doing the right thing by publicly apologizing ON BEHALF OF AMERICA for the incident, even if it came decades after the fact. So clearly from this and other examples in your report, when evaluating these matters, race is not useful as a biological category, but rather as a social category

AUSTIN:

In fact, the issue of race in healthcare merely reflects a confluence of political, social, environmental, and geographical facts. The reality is that it is social factors and forces identified in our analysis that are responsible for the differences in socio-economic and health status of different groups in society.

PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE:

Which means that, as your article indicated, as long as these basic causal factors in society remain the same, they will continue to yield the same disadvantageous results and outcomes for BLACK PEOPLE as a group, and OTHER SIMILARLY IMPACTED MINORITY GROUPS

AUSTIN:

In fact, to that very point, I recently funded a new study, and I’m using your highly regarded television show to announce that I’m prepared to offer more funding for the research. So I invite epidemiologists world-wide to take a pause, and in their much valued quest to study the causes of diseases, to, for example, spend a little more time researching and evaluating the impacts of DISPARITY IN SOCIAL OPPORTUNITIES, ACCESS AND TREATMENT OF DIFFERENT GROUPS, INCLUDING THE IMPACT OF RACISM, ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY, RELIGION, CULTURE, BELIEFS, ENVIRONMENT, GEOGRAPHY, AND TO A LESSER EXTENT, BIOLOGICAL VARIABLES. This is because, in the final analysis, at least as some preliminary research suggest, these would be found to be the real spiders weaving the web of disparity of access, and thus, of the unequal health and related outcomes.

PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE:

And the research referenced in your featured article makes the point very clearly here where it says, -and I quote- “the key determinant to the significant differences in health status of people is largely due to socio-economic status of such individuals. And it is especially notable that the socio-economic opportunities reveal a marked racial disparity, since about 33% of America’s black population is considered to be living BELOW THE POVERTY LINE, while only 11% of the white population is considered poor. And that BLACKS and HISPANICS with similar education and experience, on average, earn about $5,000.00 less than their SIMILARLY SITUATED WHITE COUNTERPARTS. And at the lowest level of income earners, BLACK PEOPLE ARE ONE THOUSAND TIMES POORER THAN SIMILARLY SITUATED WHITES!” Which buttresses your point that it is macro-economic forces and racism that are the basic factors influencing the disparity in health status between whites and blacks in America.

AUSTIN:

Further compounding this social dilemma is the fact that many African Americans who openly or subconsciously buy into the unfounded notion of their own racial inferiority – orchestrated in America, for at least the last four hundred years or so- offering this as the explanation for their circumstances, further leading some to start ABUSING DRUGS, BECOME ALCOHOL-DEPENDENT, WHILE DEVELOPMG MORE STRESS.

PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE:

Austin, to be sure, and speaking for myself here, even many of us who have not bought into the hype of inferiority are still sometimes confronted with outrageous and selective obstacles that are not only stressful to surmount, but also limiting, often demoralizing, and sometimes humiliating, and ultimately creating its own unique health challenges! Even though, as you correctly noted in your publication, - quote- “Let’s be abundantly clear. Just like most cops are likely good and decent people, the vast majority of all Americans, whether White, Black, Latino, or whatever race, ethnic group, or religion, are similarly good and decent people, not withstanding legitimate political disagreements. And not many advancements have taken place in America WITHOUT the material contributions of people of goodwill from all the various communities in the country. Yet, it is also similarly correct that, while no one currently alive is directly responsible for slavery because none of us was alive at the time, it cannot be denied that the vestiges of slavery are still positively benefitting white people as a group, and conversely negatively impacting the black community as a group. Therefore, anyone whether white, black, Latino, or whatever, supporting, funding, or voting for a candidate, a politician, or a group or party that openly, knowingly, or consistently seem to support ideas or policies that help to preserve sociopolitical inequality, and some of the vestiges of slavery or Jim Crow, must clearly intend to elevate other personal interests or points of view above the fundamental notion of true equality and the elevation of otherwise oppressed communities in society.

Ours is a free society. So, anyone has the FREEDOM to vote for or against policies designed to promote general fairness and equality. But such persons cannot have it both ways. You’re either pro-justice and fairness, or you’re not- regardless of your race, gender, social status, educational acumen, or religion!”

AUSTIN:

Fair point on both accounts. And we also noted in the article that, if society remains obtuse to these various factors and realities of unequal opportunities and unequal treatment, but instead continues to foist an ineffectual health system that focuses only on treating body parts, without a comprehensive treatment of the person, and the essential rectification of the disparity in socio-economic status and the underlying racism, including our education system and how it has been structured and funded for decades, not much will change

PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE:

In fact, as a PROUD BLACK WOMAN who was born and has lived her entire life in America, I especially appreciate one of the key findings and analysis in the article where it says- and I quote- “There appears to be compelling support for the view that because of the historical context of the black experience in America, coupled with the fact that, to succeed, most black individuals strive to be acceptable to whites - under the so-called MELTING-POT/ assimilationist ethos- which means, to be in the so-called mainstream one must dress in the culturally dominant style, appear and conduct yourself in a manner that members of the dominant race finds unoffensive and nonthreatening, and be confronted daily with open or subtle prejudice, condescension and presumptions of inferiority, yet grin and politely bear it (even though you're supposedly no-less of an American Citizen than them).”

So, I can tell you from direct and indirect experiences – AND MOST OF MY AUDIENCE KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT- That this prevailing reality in America has exacerbated the stress level, the physical, mental and emotional health of millions in the black community, and no doubt, this is partly true in many other minority communities as well, TO THE POINT OF LEAVING MANY OF US IN A CONSTANT STATE OF DIS-EASE

AUSTIN:

Contributing, no doubt to the resentment and suppressed anger, some might harbor against any unfair system many my feel utterly powerless to materially change. Like the well-known treatment of minorities by the POLICE, including targeting blacks for random and sometimes humiliating stops while driving- COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS DWB- DRIVING WHILE BLACK- particularly while driving an expensive car some officers automatically assume must be stolen, or trying to shop with your friends and being followed with a jaundiced eye as if you’re there to rob them- which ironically, I experienced by the way while in college

PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE:

-Or if A BLACK PERSON is seen WALKING OR DRIVING in a high brow neighborhood the police is conditioned to believe the black person doesn’t belong, and is merely casing in connection with a crime in progress, or in anticipation of a potential crime-

AUSTIN:

Experience and research show that this RACIAL PROFILING negatively impacts the sense of self-worth, and sense of belonging of all these affected minority groups.

PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE:

I like the fact that your article also explores how this engenders the fear of not losing one’s job despite being treated unfairly, sometimes by a far less-qualified boss, or being forced by RED-LINING to live in a depressed and under-resourced neighborhood BECAUSE OF THE UNSPOKEN BUT UNMISTAKABLY AFFIRMATIVE RESOLVE TO EXCLUDE AND LIMIT, YET IT’S OFTEN THE VERY PEOPLE BENEFITING FROM THESE DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS WHO CRY MOST LOUDLY AGAINST PALLIATIVE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION LAWS AND RULES DESIGNED, NOT TO DISCRIMINATE, BUT TO ALLEVIATE SOME OF THE PREVIOUS DISCRIMINATION, AND OTHER ONGOING IMPACTS OF SLAVERY, JIM-CROW LAWS, RACISM AND UNEQUAL ACCESS AND TREATMENT.

AUSTIN:

For example, and while this was not a cure-all panacea, America had a chance to gradually build a far different, and I dare say, a far better, happier, more egalitarian society where racism would have gradually melted away and the issue of race would no longer be much of a facto much less a leading bane of the American experiment. This salutary end would have been eventually accomplished had SCHOOL BUSING BEEN ALLOWED TO CONTINUE AND EXPAND, AT LEAST FOR A FEW MORE DECADES. STOPPING IT REVERSED AND KILLED THE MOMENTUM, INCLUDING THE CULTURAL AMITY, EQUAL ACCESS, PLUS THE UNIFORM HOUSING AND ENVIRONMENTAL ADVANCEMENTS THIS WOULD HAVE FOSTERED. But I digress.

In any event, it is these identified issues of ANGER AT THEIR OPPRESSION, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PRESSURES CAUSING STRESS IN THEIR DAILY LIVES, FEAR OR ANXIETY OVER BEING UNFAIRLY TREATED AND FIRED BY THEIR OFTEN WHITE BOSSES, ALL OF WHICH IMPACT THEIR SENSE OF SELF-WORTH IN AMERICA – all of these are REAL DETERMINANTS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DIS-EASE, INCLUDING THE CAUSES OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND ADDICTION BY SOME MEMBERS OF THE IMPACTED MINORITY GROUPS.

PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE:

That’s why I agree with the idea of we African Americans articulating a new historical context that would help enhance the self-confidence and the collective self-esteem of our community. For far too long, our community has largely tried to merely COPE with these issues rather than finding creative ways to RECTIFY them.

AUSTIN:

With mass incarceration as new PRIVATE PRISON projects continue to BOOM for the warehousing of MOSTLY BLACK AND BROWN MEN, the plague of ADDICTING DRUGS AND THE GANG WARS over tuff, the community has lost far too many who’s positive trajectory and lost contributions to society have made us poorer, to the extent that BLACK MEN OUTSIDE OF THE PRISON OR PAROLE SYSTEM ARE SO RARE, THEY HAVE ALMOST BECOME AN ENDANGERED SPECIE- ALMOST SIMILAR TO THE SPOTTED OWL AND THE BALD EAGLE A FEW YEARS AGO

PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE:

BUT WITHOUT THE POLITICAL PROTECTION, THE EMOTIONAL APPEAL, OR THE NATIONALISTIC FERVOR AND EMPATHY THAT THE SPOTTED-OWL OR THE BALD EAGLE EVOKE!

AUSTIN:

And as we pointed out in the article, in the context of all these, socially ignored and abandoned, and thus with growing anger and confusion, sometimes, some children in minority communities lash out, desperate for attention. But rather than empathizing, or nurturing and healing them WITH A FIGURATIVE SCAPEL, our currently indifferent and remorseless 'justice' system is instead designed to clumsily WIELD AN UNFORGIVING 'LAW AND ORDER' AXE to send a message that ANY RESISTANCE – understandable, legitimate or otherwise- WILL NOT BE TOLERATED -EVEN AS THE VAST PRISON CELLS AND ILL-KEPT DUNGEONS BEGIN TO FILL with many in minority communities defiantly lashing out in frustration, or unrepressed anger at a variety of unfair treatments which sadly continue apace.

PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE:

And in the meantime, with many of their men dead or incarcerated, across the country, especially in certain states, our women’s necessary social safety nets are being gleefully withdrawn, or weakened, while politicians are simultaneously expanding unfair advantages for political contributors, polluting oil giants, big pharma, and other big businesses with the resources to bankroll the re-election ambitions of many members of congress, even if at the expense of their long-suffering constituents - YES, I SAID IT!

We women are often left a alone as a consequence, to play the roles of mommy and daddy, even as the sometimes-obtuse politician turns his back on those in dire need ostensibly for being over-dependent on public assistance- HUMAN BEINGS LIKE THEMSELVES! Yet, they budget millions protecting the spotted owl at the expanse of good education, healthy, dignified and safe environments for the raising of our children!

AUSTIN:

And as for the children, for any person of conscience in government, if you take a moment to reflect, and to especially listen to the voices of these children... Because you can imagine and hear their voices speaking to you from the FEARSOME DUNGEONS which many of them as consigned to languish. If you’re listening to this show right now, I assure you, their cries could be heard, whether from the depressed, unempowered and pointedly ignored and under-developed neighborhoods where they grow up in (unfair law enforcement induced) father-less homes, or in other scarring circumstances where they have to helplessly watch their mothers or cousins desperately do tricks just for a snuff of coke, or a warm blanket during winter.

PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE:

Or their underage sisters being ravished by mother’s drug-addled live-in boyfriend, or by the itinerant police officers demanding a free blow job- just because they can!

AUSTIN:

In the meantime, these kids watch drug-dealers who are routinely ignored by the police officers who have received their share of the protection money. They watch these drug peddlers flash hundred-dollar bills to entice the prettiest girls into their flashy sports-cars

PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE:

And they wonder why we cannot understand how easy it was for their young impressionable minds to assimilate these environmental traumas and accept them as the norm

AUSTIN:

And all the while, in the midst of their travails (years ago), they saw the bald eagles and the orphaned children of Somalia and Sarajevo get more positive airtime for their heart-rending plights from America’s news media. Yet, AND THIS FRUSTRATION IS PARTLY WHY I DON’T NORMALLY ACCEPT INTERVIEW REQUESTS, because far too many of the same news media, for the most part, prefer to highlight the foibles and the failings OF ALL THE CHILDREN in MINORITY COMMUNITIES, rather than do an intelligent and detailed wrap-around journalistic investigation, analysis, reporting and constructive recommendations!

PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE:

So true, Austin. As a member of the media, I know that some genuinely want to do the right thing by being thorough, balanced, contextual and accurate, but are often restrained by ARTIFICAL DEADLINES, AND BEAN-COUNTERS WHOSE PRIORITIES ARE THE BOTTOMLINE AND NOTHING ELSE! I suppose fewer and fewer news outlets and print publications are devoting enough resources to really dive into some of the important issues like your publications have been able to do

AUSTIN:

I’ll grant you that, PELEBE. But in the meantime, partly because of the opinion shaping news media, we fail to see our youths as potentially TRAUMATIZED CHILDREN impacted by the environment we foisted on them. Instead, we’re conditioned, partly by cynical politicians, and some in the media who self-righteously castigate them as SUPER-PREDATORS AND APPLAUD THE MOVE TO CONVENIENTLY BANISH THEM OUT OF SIGHT.

So, yeah, they speak to all of us. In your minds eye, you should take a moment to picture them- in their juvenile and still unbroken voices. With broken hearts and dashed hopes, they speak to us.

PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE:

And of course, we’re not making excuses for the atrocities that some of them consciously committed

AUSTIN:

But of course. Yet, based on our reporting at some juvenile detention facilities where some of them nevertheless asked us, plaintively and many with genuine obfuscation, deep from the dark recesses of their sometimes foreboding physical and psychological dungeons- they inquired and continue to inquire from us- HOW DID IT COME TO THIS? PRAY TELL, WHY ARE WE IN THIS PLACE?

PELEBE TRMI-KINDLE:

I agree completely. Funny I don’t recall us agreeing this often when we were dating in college. If we had, maybe I would have been your Mrs. Austin GIZZILIONAIRE - But imagine me being domesticated, pregnant and bare feet with a litter of kids

Shakes her head and makes a face to confirm how that development would not have been a good fit for her well-known career-first mindset. Austin graciously agrees with her. - The orchestrated thrust and parry banter HAD TO BE PLAYED OUT TO VALIDATE PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE'S PUBLIC PERSONA- (even as the great Nat King Cole's lyrical rendering to the song "DANCE, BALLERINA, DANCE" plays in Austin's partly distracted mind...)

AUSTIN:

Nah! We both knew that path was not for you anyway. You’re currently doing what you were born to do. And your teeming supporters and others who tune in weekly to watch your show will agree with me.

PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE:

You’re so kind Austin. Well, that’s the time we have this week. As we wrap up, I want to thank my esteemed guest, businessman and philanthropist, Austin Words-Worthy, for making the time to do this. I thank the studio audience and everyone who tuned in this week. See you- same time- same place -next week. Till then, I’m YOUR TALL, DARK AND LOVELY PELEBE TEMI-KINDLE. - PROUDLY BLACK, AND EVER BEAUTIFUL ON YOUR FAVORITE TV CHANNEL, BDET -The Black Diaspora Entertainment Television Network. Good Day.

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