Detroit Adult Entertainment: Leonard Pitts Jr.: In Defense of ‘Precious’

November 30, 2009 at 8:49 am | In Detroit adult entertainment | No Comments

She is that invisible girl, the one we decline to see because she doesn’t look like Halle, enunciate like Condi, inspire like Oprah, doesn’t ratify our faith in the inevitability of happy endings. There are more of them than we would care to know. They are not just girls, not just poor, not just black.
They are incest victims in silent suffering, gay boys abandoned by their families, girls sold into prostitution by their mothers, 12-year-olds at home caring for 6-year-olds because nobody’s seen the 35-year-old in days. They are high school graduates who cannot read their own diplomas. They are children — “our” children — failed by families and then failed again by overburdened social agencies whose job is to take up the slack, catch them before they fall.

See the full article from “Times Herald-Record”

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