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Default 21-07-08, 10:18 AM

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Funny story but true unfortunately...

my cousin Lee Ester Williams and wife lived in Dallas for years. Lee is my grandmothers brothers son.

At a family get together one year about 20 yrs ago Lee was telling us about his limp. He told us how he used to drink and come home and beat his wife for years. She put up with it for many years till one time he come home drunk and when she asked him where he been he beat her and made her cook him some fish.

He said that after she reluctantly put the grease on he went in to lie down and wait for the fish to get done.

He said that all of a sudden he felt warm and flush and raised up in the bed. He sees his wife standing in door with the skillet with a strange look on her face. He started to get up and noticed the sheets were wet and his feet felt funny. When he tried to stand he fell down.

His wife had reached her point of no more toleration for abuse. She had taken the grease after it had heated up and poured it all over his feet.

Lee said that it took him at least 5 years and many operations to get back on his feet. He now treats this same woman like the queen she is. never raised his voice again let alone his hand against her since the grease incident..
It would seem that some women do have their limits, but its a shame that it has to come to reverse violence before some men decide to change their ways. There are of course intergenerational issues to consider here too;especially if children and other family members are involved. Does violence in the family create violent children, and does it explain the violence observed in black communities today?

Vern


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