HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

From my family to yours, I wish everyone a Happy, Peaceful, Harmonious Thanksgiving. I am savoring my blessings this year. This has been a different kind of year for me, some good, some bad, but always, God is my source and has continued to provide for us. Love on your kids, give them an extra hug this Thanksgiving and let them know how grateful you are to have them to love on. Let them know that they are important in your life and their needs and feelings matter to you. Let them know that that you will make all of the necessary adjustments to your life to accommodate their safety, emotional, spiritual, physical needs. We lead them in the way that they should go. And to the family of Da'Niyah Jackson, I pray that God's peace will embrace you during this time of need. Da'Niyah is safe now.

Tonight I Cry For Deniyah Jackson

I read about this story on whataboutourdaughters.blogspot.com. This story has hurt me to my core. I just can't imagine what this precious little baby had to endure at the hands of this monster. I feel better thinking that somehow God protected her from the pain and agony and knowing that she now rests in His hands knowing only pure love. And I also feel a little better that this monster will get what he deserves in jail. Brothers in jail have a standard. Child rapists and murderers get treated like the little punks that they are. Dude will probably have a butthole the size of Texas before he leaves this Earth. Thank you brothas! We appreciate the good that you do in jail. If I knew how to post her picture I would. You can see this beautiful child at http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07323/835131-52.stm

The Allegheny County medical examiner yesterday determined that
10-month-old Daniyah Jackson died from multisystem organ failure precipitated by
injuries to her abdomen and from a sexual assault. Her death has been ruled a
homicide.

KDKADaniyah Jackson
Police are expected to charge Clinton
Smith, 30, with homicide. Before the child died, he was charged with rape,
involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, endangering the welfare of
a child, aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person in the
case.
According to police, the girl's mother, Latoya Jackson, left Daniyah in
the care of Mr. Smith on Thursday morning at her Herman Street home in Troy Hill
when she left for work. Paramedics were called to the home that
evening.
Police said the baby had suffered bruises on her face, arms and legs
as well as a bite mark on her chest. Doctors told police she also had been
sexually abused.
Mr. Smith told police that he and his 2-year-old son were
the only other people in the house that day, but that he didn't know how the
baby was injured.
The girl was pronounced dead at 3:34 p.m. Saturday at
Children's Hospital, according to the county medical examiner's office.
Steve
Twedt contributed to this report. Nate Guidry can be reached at nguidry@post-gazette.com or
412-263-3865.

Tawana Brawley Case Reopened?

This is being reported by CNN. I am not sure what I think about this story, I remember the headlines years ago, it was a big mess and if you aren't familiar with the story this is the case that made Al Sharpton a household name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawana_Brawley It is also the case that damaged his reputation and in my opinion, his exploitation of the case took away some of the credibility of the Brawley family. I just think it is interesting this case is being brought back to the forefront when Al is being called about ignoring crimes against African American women.

Glenda Brawley and Ralph King want to press New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and
state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to re-examine the November 1987 incident,
which a state grand jury ultimately concluded was a hoax, the Daily News
reported.
"New York state owes my daughter. They owe her the truth," said
Glenda Brawley. She reiterated her stance that her daughter was indeed raped by
a group of white men who smeared her with feces and scrawled racial epithets on
her body.
Representatives for Spitzer and Cuomo did not immediately respond
to telephone and e-mail messages.
Brawley was 15 when she went missing for
four days from her home in Wappingers Falls, about 75 miles north of New York.
After being found, she made the shocking allegation that she had been abducted
and raped by six white law enforcement officials.
The case quickly made
headlines and drew the attention of the Rev. Al
Sharpton, who became an outspoken advocate for the teen.
But a
special state grand jury found evidence Brawley had fabricated her story. A
former Dutchess County prosecutor who had been implicated in the case later sued
Brawley, Sharpton and other Brawley advisers for defamation, winning a $345,000
judgment against the advisers and a $185,000 judgment against Brawley.
A
spokeswoman for Sharpton, who was held liable for $65,000 in the case, did not
immediately respond to an e-mail message early Sunday. The former prosecutor's
attorney did not immediately return a telephone message.

Hmmmmm, very interesting. But something happened to that young girl, what, we may never know, because the media and the public became sick of Al Sharpton. The article does not say what Tawana thinks about the request to reopen her case.