If you don’t know, I am a person passionate about injustice. I believe that I and people like me can change the world- following the will of the Lord, “The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.” Prb 29…and it is God’s will that we become the righteousness of Christ, that is why He died for us.
That was a little rant… that someone needed to hear!! Lol
One injustice that after I heard about was ingrained in my thoughts was Human Trafficking. Human Trafficking it the selling and moving of people for profit or gain, it is modern day slavery. One major from of trafficking is Prostitution. Yes, it happens everywhere, down the street from you, down the street from me and through every countries airport.
I am working with an organization called Operation Broken Silence, which to me is one (if not) the best nonprof ever. Ha, but I am a little bias. We have three focus areas: Modern day slavery, Genocide and the Water Crisis. S.A.F.E , Slavery Abolition Freedom Endeavor , is conducting an research, collecting data to get an idea of the of the amount of prostitution…or “escorting ” services here in Memphis and the amount of people traveling to Memphis for the purpose of prostitution.
This study will create a number for Memphians that will show that this is something that is happening right here, right now. To do this study the information is documented from a website. Date of the posting, phone number, advertised name and age and an ID number given to the poster…like an ID number of an item on Ebay. Each person involved in the study is give a day to collect post and document them on a doc sheet to keep the information together.
My day there is a lady name Brooke, whether that is her real name is debatable, but that’s all I got. Brooke is a heavy set women and very beautiful. I remember the first time I went to gather her information- I was sadden by her beauty and her line of business. I think about the say that bigger women can sometime be treated and how that could have them feel and I wonder, “ Is that the reason she is in this business?” It is quite possible that the reason she is doing what she is doing is because she wasn’t told she was beautiful or good enough for something better by the people around her.
As the weeks went on she continued to post and I would continue to think about her all the time. I would pray for her while I was driving, while I was lying in bed- thinking of the horrible things she might be going through right then- in my neighborhood, Wolfchase/ Germantown.
Then one day I get on to collect information and she wasn’t there. I tried not to think about it but the next week the same thing. I have just about driven myself insane thinking about the things that could have happened to her. Maybe she was beaten to death, or she as killed by one of her costumers. Or maybe she wasn’t an independent worker and her pimp has done something to her. Maybe she ended up in Jail. Maybe she got out of that horrible situation.
Every day I pray for her and sometimes I wish that I had 200 dollars and was able to act upon the urge, that I had more than once, for an hour to tell her she is beautiful and that I love her. That there is hope and even though it doesn’t look like it- God is always there, always watching and always working.
Remember, in this business there things are not as they seem. Remember to pray for the things that go on in our city and in our world that are wrong- Remember the people who need your prayers.
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