Comments on: Today I Cried for Lost Black Boys: Sadness for Michael http://mochamanual.com/blog/2009/07/today-i-cried-for-lost-black-boys-sadness-for-michael/ Everything for Black Moms Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:43:38 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Active Parenting http://mochamanual.com/blog/2009/07/today-i-cried-for-lost-black-boys-sadness-for-michael/comment-page-1/#comment-319 Active Parenting Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:14:14 +0000 http://mochamanual.com/blog/?p=53#comment-319 <strong>Active Parenting...</strong> There\'s some real intelligence behind your post. I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.... Active Parenting…

There\’s some real intelligence behind your post. I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks….

]]> By: Norka http://mochamanual.com/blog/2009/07/today-i-cried-for-lost-black-boys-sadness-for-michael/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Norka Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:30:33 +0000 http://mochamanual.com/blog/?p=53#comment-93 Kimberly: Kudos on your prose. I'm glad you cleared that up because I also received the e-mail with the Maya Angelou byline, I was so touched by it that I wanted to use it during a PARENTS NIGHT presentation I have tomorrow night. I needed to give full credit to the author. However, as I writer I know how autorship often gets lost on the Internet. So I replied to the sender, which happened to be my sister who lives all the way in Panama. She replied that someone in Panama had forwarded it to her. Oh brother! But in a few hours my sister Dinorah e-mails me with your blog. She had found the author. I just want to say that I have no kids of my own, I am however a committed and passionate educator; so my children were not born from my womb they are born from my heart ---and they are many. This piece spoke to me powerfully. It has served as my re-commitment to our children. I pray that it will heal many and that you may be greatly rewarded for creating this soothing salve for our people. Be blessed. Kimberly:

Kudos on your prose. I’m glad you cleared that up because I also received the e-mail with the Maya Angelou byline, I was so touched by it that I wanted to use it during a PARENTS NIGHT presentation I have tomorrow night. I needed to give full credit to the author. However, as I writer I know how autorship often gets lost on the Internet. So I replied to the sender, which happened to be my sister who lives all the way in Panama. She replied that someone in Panama had forwarded it to her. Oh brother! But in a few hours my sister Dinorah e-mails me with your blog. She had found the author.

I just want to say that I have no kids of my own, I am however a committed and passionate educator; so my children were not born from my womb they are born from my heart —and they are many. This piece spoke to me powerfully. It has served as my re-commitment to our children. I pray that it will heal many and that you may be greatly rewarded for creating this soothing salve for our people.

Be blessed.

]]> By: Kimberly http://mochamanual.com/blog/2009/07/today-i-cried-for-lost-black-boys-sadness-for-michael/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Kimberly Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:47:36 +0000 http://mochamanual.com/blog/?p=53#comment-73 Hi ya ShaSha Only the last line where the quotes begin and end are from Maya Angelou. You can see that the rest of the post is very different. I think something got lost in all the forwarding and reposting. LOL! but I am certainly and proudly the author of the post. Hi ya ShaSha
Only the last line where the quotes begin and end are from Maya Angelou. You can see that the rest of the post is very different. I think something got lost in all the forwarding and reposting. LOL! but I am certainly and proudly the author of the post.

]]> By: ShaSha http://mochamanual.com/blog/2009/07/today-i-cried-for-lost-black-boys-sadness-for-michael/comment-page-1/#comment-72 ShaSha Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:02:06 +0000 http://mochamanual.com/blog/?p=53#comment-72 Good afternoon: Please clarify the author of this piece bc it looks as if Maya Angleou has written it and not Ms. Seals. Thank you Good afternoon: Please clarify the author of this piece bc it looks as if Maya Angleou has written it and not Ms. Seals. Thank you

]]> By: elayne http://mochamanual.com/blog/2009/07/today-i-cried-for-lost-black-boys-sadness-for-michael/comment-page-1/#comment-67 elayne Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:59:09 +0000 http://mochamanual.com/blog/?p=53#comment-67 Hi there, A friend of mine received the text of the post above in an email which claimed it was a poem by Maya Angelou. As enthusiastically as I agree with your sentiments, it didn't sound like Maya Angelou to me, so after a google search I find myself on your blog. I'm guessing that you are the author of this essay, and that the attribution on the very last line was mis-read by someone who assumed that Angelou wrote the entire thing. Can you confirm (or deny) that you are the author of this piece, so she/we can let people know who to credit for the thoughts? By the way, the conversation where this came up was here: http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=3&nav=messages&webtag=ab-urbanlegends&tid=9977 , an Urban Legends and Folklore discussion forum where we spend a lot of time tracking down the truth behind various internet rumors. Thanks so much! Hi there,

A friend of mine received the text of the post above in an email which claimed it was a poem by Maya Angelou. As enthusiastically as I agree with your sentiments, it didn’t sound like Maya Angelou to me, so after a google search I find myself on your blog.

I’m guessing that you are the author of this essay, and that the attribution on the very last line was mis-read by someone who assumed that Angelou wrote the entire thing. Can you confirm (or deny) that you are the author of this piece, so she/we can let people know who to credit for the thoughts?

By the way, the conversation where this came up was here: http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=3&nav=messages&webtag=ab-urbanlegends&tid=9977 , an Urban Legends and Folklore discussion forum where we spend a lot of time tracking down the truth behind various internet rumors.

Thanks so much!

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