Normally I try not to
blog about things that I feel personally about unless it is pertinent, like
issues regarding education and educators within the U. S Virgin Islands and
since it is summer I thought I would give myself a much needed break from the
dual work that I have chosen to engage in to actually take the time to smell
the roses (so to speak) but instead I cannot stop thinking about this ordeal
about our delegate to congress and how her private family moments where hacked.
I am also too sure that most of the reason why myself, along with others,
cannot seem to ignore or let this atrocity die is because every major news outlet
in the territory feels the need to update and rewrite articles already
published to continually feed the masses. Well here is my major concern that I
am sure no one else cares about (or at least seemingly) how do you all think
that the child feels?
The
child that became a political pawn because she was having fun with her parents,
something that many children within our territory do not have the comfort of
and many of whom will never have those same luxuries; how do you think their
child feels. How would you as a child feel after being used in your most
vulnerable moments, exploited at such a young age, or do we think that because
she is young she will get over it and may not fully understand the implications
made? That is possible, but highly implausible as she is completely aware of
her surrounding and developmentally progressing appropriately. So I ask again,
why do we as a society, as a community, as Pulitzer prize winning newspapers,
and editors in chief continually fan this fire and feed it? The negativity that
looms over because of this cloud is a little heart wrenching to me because this
could have been worse for all concerned including the child had it been deemed
that the video was inappropriate and that she needed to be removed from her
home, this too could be misconstrued by children as the school year is set to
begin soon and we all know how children can be. This is my plea to everyone
that has since obtained this video or any of the pictures leaked, delete them
and denounce the nonsense that is taking over in our communities. This is not
the first straw, I have heard many stories countless other women victimized in
the same manner some were as young as teens and if we do not denounce it now it
will continually grow. Let’s not wait until this come in the form of a suicide
of a teen or young adult that couldn’t bear the pressure from sinister jokes;
let us as a community not sit by and watch children become victims for their parent’s
cause if we do can you truly say that you and your children will be safe in the
next wave of attacks?
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| U. S Virgin Islands Delegate to Congress Stacey Plaskett and her husband |
The views expressed
within the blog are solely those of Ms. Child Advocate and does not reflect on
any of her affiliations. For more on the U.S Virgin Islands youths read PTA,
Parent Committee, & Volunteering: Get Involved , Too
Much Violence: USVI
Shootings Near Preschools, USVI
Shootings Near Preschool's 2,
and Respect
Goes Both Ways: Teacher and Student
