(ThyBlackMan.com) As I sit here trying to make sense of another black man gone, I realize there was not enough care for the family of the victim. Though we love our parents, if they have their way we will one day bury them verses them having to stand over their children. Judge Tammy Kemp had the audacity to come down from her bench and huge the white woman that was a police officer. A woman that took an oath to protect the people of Dallas, but killed an innocent citizen while he was in, what was supposed to be, the safety of his home. With everything going on in this case all I could wonder is what about his mother? Did the judge consider Botham Jean’s mother when she came down from her bench and embraced Amber Guyger? His mother had to endure burying her child, having to fight for a justice that honestly failed in the end, and then she has to watch the person presiding over the proceedings that is supposed to be impartial hug her son’s killer. Why is it that our women are asked to endure such things with a calm the world doesn’t deserve?
I admit my anger on behalf of Botham Jean’s mother is personal. I too am a mother of little black boys. For a moment I looked at my five year old and four month old black boys and realized, if allowed, one day they will be black men in this country. Their father and I work hard to provide for them, instill moral valves, and even now we are fostering a love of education. The scary truth is no matter how good, or 
successful our sons become there is the fear that a cop like Amber Guyger can end their life plunging our family into a never-ending nightmare.
To be quite honest, I know I would lose my composure. The very idea that someone sworn to protect could senselessly end the life of the two human beings most precious to me is sickening. Yet, to add insult to misery I could also be forced to watch her receive consolation as “justice” is being served. There is no space by which this foolishness is justified. The behavior in that court room was a slap in the face to the family, and a deeper insult to the mother that carried, gave birth to, nurtured and raised this young man.
So much has been wrong with this case from day one. A judge, that happened to be a black woman, didn’t seem to think it necessary to place the victim above that of the criminal. My mind has often reflected on the mother of the victim knowing that I must hold my babies a little tighter, and when they get older I must insist that they live with a level of caution and vigilance that is unfair. Why must we explain to any judge why this behavior was wrong? Why can’t this black woman see how disrespectful and disregarding her actions were? One can only wonder how would Judge Kemp feel if the black man dead was her son? I wonder if that ever crossed her mind.
Staff Writer; Christian Starr
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