Sound Blog Response #6

"He dropped me off in the middle of the night with a $5 dollar bill."
www.bryan-and-michael-wilmoth/
First off this man is incredible, he was kicked out of his house, disowned and still tried his hardest to be the best big brother that he could be. I think that is wonderful, most people would have just let the bridges become destroyed and accept that they were not apart of their family anymore. This guy said "no!" i'm going to repair these mangled bridges and be the best big brother I can be. Without a second word he gave up his savings to put a brother he had never known about through college, that takes true love.
Secondly, I want to meet "dad" so that I can smack him and then teach him how to be a good person, this is not just because he is anti-homosexual but because most of his kids were either kicked out of the house or ran away. That says something about this guys parenting skills, they are obviously sub-par. If you raised children that are raised to hate each other then something is going wrong. I'm not saying i'm going to be a great parent or that it is easy, but there are somethings that I know are wrong, raising your children the way he did is definitely something I can say that I will never do.
"Evander and I had a dog named Lassie..."
www.storycorps.org/listen/bernard-holyfield-and-charles-barlow/
This story makes me want to cry, for two reasons, the first being that this kind of thing could happen without repercussions. Growing up in my generation I don't understand how people of the past could think that certain skin colors were better then others. I don't understand how people now a days can still think that, we are all human beings and should be treated as such, it doesn't matter what we look like or how we act, we all deserve to be happy and live good lives. No kid should have to learn that they are looked down upon by some people at the age of five. That is not a burden that a five year old should have to bear.
The second reason is that this poor guy's dog was killed when he was five. Even worse he watched it happen, and was powerless to do anything about it. This reminds me of my cat Buffy, when I was little my parents had to put her down. They told me that they had to "put her to sleep" and I was too young to understand what that meant. I thought that she would wake up after a little bit. My parents had to tell me that putting her to sleep meant killing her and she would never wake up. I was devastated, I didn't know what my life would be like without her, and I was scared. I think I know how he feels, it is a horrible feeling to have, especially when you are a kid.