Left Us On This Day
Robert Hughes Williamson died Sunday, June 21, 2015
Gone Too Soon – But Never Ever Forgotten, This Year I Wanted to Focus on My Mom and My Sister
THE BLACK MOM
Mom Nettie Williamson It’s not just his children that miss him, friends and other family member too…. I’ve never walked in your shoes (ok well I’ve actually tried some of them on – but I’ve found in MY era that they don’t all quite fit. You see some had to be stretched and some had to be tightened, yet others had be simply discarded…
Dad, spoiled me – but you – with your rock hard unequivocal teachings with which you never fell prey to a demeanor of pusillanimity. Most days as a teen I couldn’t understand the picture you were painting for me.
It wasn’t until I had an in-depth conversation with my sister Diane V Lane Booker that I able to see the full story in vivid color…
The egregious situations that the Black Mom fell victim too waaay back in the day. Just to have survived the 30s, 40s, and 50s should be labeled as a #MARKOFDISTINCTION. I’m so glad he (Robert H Williamson) chose you, and you accepted-him 100%.
We have a million memories – one that comes to mind today, in the middle of our current living conditions with death executed by members of the PROTECT and SERVE gang, the freedom of the EXTREME RACISTS running around wreaking havoc, THE DESTROYING OF MANY HISTORY BOOKS because they contain partial truths of the plight of Black Folk, and my Lord – the Black Women, the mass killing of our children. Oh my, I went on a little tangent there, anywho…
MEMORIES
Yes, so one of my favorite memories is, this, it was so nice to watch the entire season of #Roots with the family each week, you know he’d come running home at the last minute just before it started because he didn’t wanna miss it either and we would all gather in the living room and watch the show and talk about some of the despicable things that we learned about the Black Family, Slavery, having NO ability to voice your opinion, manage your own family or simply speak your truth…
He taught me how to respect a man with flaws who takes care of his family and have disdain for the emotional, physical and verbal abuser, and also taught me what it looks like when a man takes cares of his responsibilities even if the woman is lying about being pregnant.
Yes and a million other great memories – however, I still enjoy the changing of the 3 tires story. Later on in life I realized I learned a lot from that incident – a man that cares about you will watch over you and should harm befall you or it looks like harm is coming your way he’s there to catch you, a man that cares about you will let you finish your story and not rush you…
…a man that cares about you will be your friend…
I will forever miss my dad..
Summary
- It wasn’t until I had an in-depth conversation with my sister Diane V Lane Booker that I able to see the full story in vivid color….
- We have a million memories – one that comes to mind today, in the middle of our current living conditions with death executed by members of the PROTECT and SERVE gang, the freedom of the EXTREME RACISTS running around wreaking havoc, THE DESTROYING OF MANY HISTORY BOOKS because they contain partial truths of the plight of Black Folk, and my Lord – the Black Women, the mass killing of our children.
- Yes, so one of my favorite memories is, this, it was so nice to watch the entire season of #Roots with the family each week, you know he’d come running home at the last minute just before it started because he didn’t wanna miss it either and we would all gather in the living room and watch the show and talk about some of the despicable things that we learned about the Black Family, Slavery, having NO ability to voice your opinion, manage your own family or simply speak your truth….
- He taught me how to respect a man with flaws who takes care of his family and have disdain for the emotional, physical and verbal abuser, and also taught me what it looks like when a man takes cares of his responsibilities even if the woman is lying about being pregnant.
- Later on in life I realized I learned a lot from that incident – a man that cares about you will watch over you and should harm befall you or it looks like harm is coming your way he’s there to catch you, a man that cares about you will let you finish your story and not rush you.
