Clevon Raphael

I have re­peat­ed­ly ex­pressed my bias in favour of our women and chil­dren and shud­der with hor­ror when­ev­er I see that they are be­ing tak­en ad­van­tage of, be it at home, (women) on the job, out­side of their abode, or any­where for that mat­ter.Women, be­cause a woman brought me in­to this place, so nat­u­ral­ly I pay homage to her (al­though I did not spend much of my child­hood with my bi­o­log­i­cal mom) and the rest of the fair­er sex, be they a sis­ter, aunt, grand­ma, niece or what have you.

Chil­dren, be­cause we brought them in­to this space, and for the joy and sor­row (main­ly the for­mer) that they have brought us, we owe it to them and the cre­ator to love them de­spite what­ev­er short­com­ings they may pos­sess as we all tra­verse tem­porar­i­ly in this earth­ly life.I can­not, for the love of roti and goat and black pud­ding and hops bread, fath­om how any­one in their right sens­es can think of beat­ing, maim­ing and even killing their chil­dren or stepchil­dren, or men do­ing the same to their spous­es.

Grant­ed, some women are just as mean as their male coun­ter­parts and could in­flict sim­i­lar bru­tal­i­ty on their men­folk and chil­dren. But if push comes to shove I will al­ways bear al­le­giance to them and my sym­pa­thy would al­ways be on their side. It is with this in mind that my at­ten­tion was drawn to an In­ter­net re­lease an­nounc­ing the es­tab­lish­ment of the As­sess­ment Cen­tre to house chil­dren who have been vic­tims of abuse and ne­glect and that it is sched­uled to be opened with­in less than three months.

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