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Could it be because bringing that issue to the forefront would show how hurtful, mean, evil, and despicable we can be to each other?  Or maybe because it's easier to fight the antics of the White man but when we have to turn the mirror on the black-on-black crime, it's too true a visual.  We need to march in our own neighborhoods against these drug dealers, pimps, and others willing to sacrifice my life for their need to have a new car or thousands of dollars in their pocket.  Then again that would mean pointing a finger at my brother, mother, father, sister, cousin or best friend, and most of all MYSELF!

Why we may not be as interested in being involved in climate policy change:

For one thing I think some of us as Black people don't get involved as much because a lot of us feel like what's the use trying to change policies on the climate when you have a government that wont recognize the need for changing the policies on hate crimes or will lynch my child or my brother for dropping gum on the street and won't act the same to my fairer skinned earth dwellers.  When you have a government who will send out the troops to help victims of the tsunami but right at home you take 3 or more days to get people help in Louisiana and Mississippi.

I am a habitual recycler, yet in my city it is so hard to recycle anything other than glass bottles, newspaper, and cans that you get too discouraged to give a hoot about the climate as a whole.  I see the effects of global warming because I want to know about the earth and I want answers to why Katrina happened or why California looked like the sun's surface on TV!  I want to know these things because someone came to my area to talk about the fact that if I don't do more to help the environment that in years to come, my children and my children's children might have to party with Bow Wow and Chris Brown in a plastic bubble, wearing eco suits and a gas mask.  I believe that a lot of talk about the climate issues are talked at people and not to them.  At times it's not relatable...

What it will take:

I believe it will take showing what the real effects are in the heart of the communities and in the schools.  If, we are shown things as a reality and not a media ploy or a means to mask other issues in the world then maybe Blacks and other races might take it a little more seriously.  Not to mention we have a president who is blatantly sending our family members to fight for one of the vary things that is polluting the environment once it is refined for consumption by the masses - OIL!  In the reality of it all, yeah I am worried about the climate but I am worried about not loosing my home to foreclosure or my car being repossessed due to having just lost my job in an economy badly hurt by the cost of oil going up after Katrina, Ivan, Isabelle, Andrew and all the other negative effects of severe climate changes.  But none of that hits home for some of us because we can barely change policies that directly impact us.  So why would people think they could change climate policies that might cost the good old boys network billions in lost Oil revenues...

The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that 4 million women are physically abused by their husbands or live-in partners every year.

When you read "Coincidence," you will notice a character who for a while has no identity. She is a woman who writes in her journal to escape her abusive husband. The person's identity is to be figured out by the reader via the clues left in her journal entries. It was hard to write this character and all of the brutal episodes in which she was the star. Domestic violence is serious and it is something that everybody has to do something about. Whether you are the victim - who needs to get out of that relationship, or if you are the abuser - who needs to seek some serious help before it's too late. Even if you are a family member, neighbor, church member, co-worker, or stranger who witnesses signs or an act of domestic violence; you ... WE can do something about it.

I feel like saving the world but I know that I can not do that but if I save one life, my father above would say "well done!"

It breaks my heart to know that there are women serving life sentences because they were forced to do what the police and judicial system couldn't/wouldn't do ... give them hope and freedom!

What can WE do to help someone who is a suspected victim of domestic violence?