Saying farewell to Karon Blake, ‘man of the house’ at age 13
Jan. 7 during a predawn confrontation with an adult over car break-ins. Now, his young friends and family were processing their pain through videos and social media postings that many adults would find alien. Meanwhile, church elders were trying to provide solace with words from a Bible that seemed just as foreign to the youths.“If a man dies, shall he live again?” a preacher asked, citing the Book of Job. He got no response. “Let me bring it closer to home,” the preacher tried again.
They did not seem to need help coping with death as much as they could use help living in a world where Black life only matters on signs and on a paved plaza near the White House that bears those words.When a preacher began recounting the biblical story of Lazarus rising from the dead, youngsters began to yawn and shift in their seats. And when youths rose from their seats and began filing out of the church, the preacher implored them to stay. “My brothers and sisters, don’t walk out.
According to some of his friends, Karon would sometimes cut short his day at Brookland Middle School to pick up his siblings from their elementary school, then catch a bus home with them. “He was like a man leaving home for a job,” a school friend said. “He’d say, ‘See ya. Got to go pick up the kids.’”So rare are fathers in some of these neighborhoods that people seem to have forgotten why having them around is important. Protecting the family, the home and community — that’s part of it.
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