HOW MUCH FOR YOUR CHILD?

 When I teach my young chess champions, I explain to them the value of each piece, noting that the King is ‘priceless’.

Often, I have to explain this word to them with a story:

“Imagine if your parents sold their place on the Upper East Side; they’d get like a gazillion dollars for it!

Now imagine if that same person asked, ‘How much for Jada, Jamal, Susie and Bradley?’

Your parents would say, ‘Those are our babies! They are not for sale! They are...”

and I’d wait for the CHILDREN to chime in ‘PRICELESS!’

Now why can’t we ALL see what they clearly can?

We pay these white cops from elsewheres via OUR taxes.

They oppress, brutalize and murder us. Then OUR taxes pay for the settlement which could NEVER BE ENOUGH!

How much would you want for me to shoot your CHILD or nephew in the back of the head? 1 million? 10 million? 100 million? A billion?

Fire ALL of the white cops from elsewheres!

We are what we accept; and it’s long past time we stopped accepting the unacceptable. Long past.

Am I STILL just talking to myself here? Are the words getting through the denial at all?

Now if little ones as young as 4, 5 and 6 can understand this concept, then why can’t we?