Naturalle Drea

It is currently Sunday afternoon. Just got back in front going to the grocery store and picking up my son from a friend’s house. I started this post a couple times for the past week and honestly couldn’t find my words to express the grief I feel about Nolan Wells. If you are unfamiliar, Nolan was an 18 year old that went missing on the 4th of July and was found dead days later. Hearing about this made me sick because another young black man was murdered and now his family is left looking for answers on what happened to their son. Those people he was with were not his “friends” at all and I’m sick of the media and people referring to them as that. How do you go somewhere and not come back with the whole group? Something with this case just doesn’t sit right with me and I hope and pray his family gets the answers they are looking for and justice is served. They are grieving and people were online blaming them for what happened to their son and they have been receiving hate mail and all. It is trying sick and disgusting what people are saying to his family and people are just so ignorant.

Cases like Nolan’s just makes me more fearful for my own son to be out in this cruel world. I am much more worried whenever my son leaves the house. I know he is growing up and wants to hang out with friends and go places and all but I just want to make sure he is going to be safe. I feel like we have to sit him down and have a talk about “friends” and to be truly aware of your surroundings and where you all at all times. It is just sad that we have to have these talks. I remember when we had to talk to our son about when George Floyd was murdered and other instances involving Black men and women. I hate that it has to be this way but it is the world we currently live it and it just makes me sick. It just seems like things in this country are getting worse and it is a lot.

I honestly don’t have the words anymore. I don’t know if things will ever change or get better. I just hate how things are and it just scares me, what else? How bad can things really get? Is there hope at all for change? I’m honestly starting to lose hope.