THIS IS SAD

     What in the hell is going on with the Black family?  What makes me ask this question is an incident from Feb 20, 2010 as posted in the Evening Whirl (all the news that's fit to print).  Single mom Patrice Johnson, gainfully employed as a stripper at the Soft Touch club in E. St. Louis, apparently lost track of her baby girl at a Caseyville motel.  Keep in mind, I am not making light of this tragedy.  I think it's truly pathetic, yet so emblematic of what has happened in the Black community.  As an Old Black Guy I hold a soft spot in my heart for children. 
     It seems Patrice went to work and left the 3 year old girl in the care of her babydaddy in a Days Inn.  To make a long story short, babydaddy (a heroin addict strapped with a pistol) lost track of the toddler and she was found wandering the halls by motel staff.  Cops are called and arrive.  At 2am Patrice and her sister arrive and inform the cops babydaddy was supposed to be babysitting.  Dumb girl takes $2,000.00 out of a strongbox in front of the cops (they might rob you, dummy. it happens in STL all the time) cops then notice cocaine and other dope paraphernalia around the room.  Dumb girl says she and her sister are scheduled to have sex with babydaddy in a different room (because he's got a gun).
     The baby's guardian is the babydaddy sister, who finally picked-up the kid.  Here we go, ya'll.  Why ain't the kid at home in bed at 2am.  What jackass gave this junkie bitch the kid in the first place that day.  In other words, where was the family at?  Has dope and money destroyed the Black family that much.  As an Old Black Guy, I am saddened daily whenever I watch the news. (Fox2 at 5am.  Also known in the hood as "the Nigga News).  It's as if Black families have really lost sight of what's important.  The Black family has picked up the worst traits of their so-called enemy, The White Man. The White Man don't need to be our enemy, we're our own worst enemy. 
     Patrice probably had a retched childhood.  Now she's giving her daughter a retched childhood.  Will somebody in that family say "the retched cycle stops here!!".