Y, La Sabiduria es una jueza, From 8/8/09

Is this the Happy Ending to West Side Story?

I want to live in America. Is this the happy part of Tony dying in the gang violence in the streets. Will his daughter do much to end the gang violence by her judgment of us? Is this the soap opera that the angels are watching as Tony and Maria watch their daughter taking an oath of commitment to judge imparially. Up from gang violence! Up from tenement life and overcrowded schools and jails and the violence that is so crippling to any pursuits. God has woven up together and the insertion process is sometimes violent. Some of us who travelled through the halls of Ellis Island were appalled at the shame of the gang violence in our streets and how many of our young men died young and lived far below their abilities.
Daddy used to say, we expect so much more from the women. We demand that they deliver us from this managerie. What did they feel that they were defending? What did they feel that they could or would gain from the violence? Respect? Approval? Purpose? Perhaps this is the birth of that respect. Perhaps this is the birth of the real dreams that Martin Luther King and Ceasar Chavez and even the fictional Tony dreamed for their daughters. Not subject to the wiles of the streets and the “Jungle” so to speak. God bless the coaches and the instructors who after having fought in the streets themselves could look into our eyes and see hope for a growth into a new and free America.
Those who contributed and built up the hope of a next generation and saw a possibility of representation for wealthy and the “disenfranchised” coming on board as well contributed to a worthy cause. It doesn’t matter which of us made it into the ranks. We all reached. It is better that one of us could be accepted into the ranks of the courts than that we still sit under the oblivion of not being represented. Halleluia! God has truly been good to the oppressed and they who have sat in the halls of prayer hoping to see a day of representation are looking and seeing one country that has a face of diversity in its highest courts. Tennis coaches, who looked at us and bid us to soar and rise. You can do it they looked at us and saw a hope for tomorrow. The Mr. Rooney’s and Mr. T’s and Brothers who were adept at creating opportunities for us where there was none, Halleluia to God for them. We could see strength and we could follow that light and head in the direction of wisdom and truth.
Take this ball and aim at that ceiling, they taught us and hit it as hard as you well please and one day it will come down. No? Jump like this and one day when you hit your head the ceiling will collapse and you will get into where you have never been before. Supreme Court? Well God is God, isn’t He? Halleluia!