OK it's not Doctor Who or Battlestar Galatica, Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones but despite the budget, the premise and everything I decided to give the show a shot and I'm so glad I did.
Heck the real reason I watched it is because I've literally seen pretty much every good show released in the last decade. That was a great lesson in humility for me.I watched this show with low intentions. I ended up writing an article that was much more restrained than the one I had set out to write. Cooper wrote the following line: “I hope that a few mortifying seconds in a lifetime of forty years will not define me in his eyes and that he will accept my sincere apology.” The sentence instantly prompted me to think about the many mistakes I had made in my own life from taking impulsive actions, and how, on each occasion, I wished that I would be forgiven. However, while researching for the article, I came across something that made me pause and reflect. I was about to write a scathing article to condemn it. Cooper’s action could have brought to Mr. As a Black man, I clearly understood the danger Ms. This incident occurred around the time of George Floyd’s murder, when emotions were extremely raw everywhere. Cooper for simply asking her to leash her dog, as park rules required. I vividly remember one instance, when I was getting ready to write a blog article a couple of years ago about the Central Park incident in New York City between Amy Cooper and Christian Cooper. The information I discover through research at times forces me to change some prior strongly held views. However long or short anything I write is, I have to do some research on the issue I am discussing.
But through writing this book, and the many articles I have written for my blog and publications elsewhere over the years, I have learned to become even more so. My father had to break the cycle for me to escape that trap. Of the sixty children who were in my primary school class in Boadua, I was the only one who made it out of the village to go to secondary school and beyond.
Because the other parents in the village had that fatalistic mindset, their children went nowhere. Without him, I wouldn’t be where I am today. He worked tremendously hard and made unimaginable sacrifices, often risking his personal safety, to break the vicious cycle in which our family was caught at the time. The example of my father, which I write about in the book, is a perfect illustration of this point. And once that happens, it creates the vital platform upon which current and future generations of children in a family lineage then stand on to harness whatever talents they are blessed with. In the case of the parents, there should be a recognition that while the cycle of poverty and outright doom will always seem vicious, it often takes just one selfless person to step up and break it.
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