Paris Brown
According to the press Paris Brown the newly appointed17 year
old youth police and commissioner has resigned. A good job too. How can we have
someone who is ill thought out, homophobic and crude working for the police? It
is a disgrace she should hold such a position paid for by the community. She has
let herself down by using social media, that form of communication that seems
to be so helpful until we press send before we think.
One moment. I need to say I am relieved that when I applied
for my job as priest of Pype Hayes my new community did not trawl through every
word i have ever said. When I went to my
training incumbent I felt compelled to tell him I had done many things in my
life that I was not proud of. He assured me that these events would shape my
life and ministry.
Paris Brown offered herself for public service a fine thing
to do. The commissioner believed in the position and possibly Paris so much she
was willing to give her £5k of her own money. There are so many things we can
learn from this event.
Be careful what the crowd call for they are not always right,
we need not be guided by the volume of the crownd. Where was this girls mentor; her guide, advisor
and protector. As a mechanic I had many apprentices and my role was always more
than nuts and bolts,many times mentor
and friend.
And finally (there could be more) where is the new start in
life? I am almost in tears writing this that at 17 years of age there is no new
start no sorry can I start again tomorrow? The police force should have been
firm and stood by their decision to appoint Paris. If I, like Paris had been
held accountable for all i had said and done at 17 without a new start where
would I be today? I am a very minor priest in a very minor parish serving my community.
I thank God I was given the possibility of a new start to leave the shit, shame
and mistakes of my life behind, for that I am eternally grateful. I wish we
could say the same for Paris.
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