Detroit Escorts: Leonard Pitts Jr.: ‘Precious’ stomps on stereotypes
November 25, 2009 at 7:48 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsShe 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.
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