Book Chapters — Who Are the Teachers Of Hatred Part III

Annelise Lords
ILLUMINATION Book Chapters
3 min readNov 7, 2024

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They murdered your husband while he was fighting with Martin Luther King in the 1960s.

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At home, her mother cried out as she entered, “If you dare to represent that murderer you are no longer welcome in this house.”

“This is my house! And my granddaughter stays here!” her grandmother defends.

Maeko sighed, then rushed to her grandmother sitting on the sofa in the living room, hugging her, while fighting to conquer her tears.

“They murdered your husband while he was fighting with Martin Luther King in the 1960s. Leaving you alone to raise a black male child in the deep South! Your son! Her father grew up without a father! Your only child, my husband, her father,” her mother screamed pointing to Maeko as tears of hatred streamed down with pain. “He took up the baton from where his dead father dropped it and was murdered fighting for his people’s rights too, just like his father. His only child grew up without a father too. She never knew her father. Now you want my daughter to pick up the baton where her dead…

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Annelise Lords
Annelise Lords

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