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Transcription: Sunday, July 4, 2021, at 1:55 pm. I knocked on the door and stood there for over 5 minutes before Mama came to the door. She opened the bottom screen to the storm door and spoke to me through the door before finally coming outside.

TRANSCRIPTION: 

Mama: Hey Robin.

Me: Hey Mama.

Mama: Who you got with you?

Me: Andrea is in the car, but I am by myself.

Mama: Is anything wrong... I mean are you coming here to...

Me: I'm coming here to be peaceful?

Mama: Are you sure?

Me: I promise, I promise. I promise.

Mama: Let me come out here (She opens the door and comes onto the deck. The child predator stayed in the house)

Me: OK.

Me: I really wanted to ask James something...Mama, I don't like none of this and I just wanted to see if we could clear the air.

Mama: Did you come here for peace or did you come here to start something?

Me: I come here for clarity.

Mama: Go over there and sit down (motioning to a lawn chair)

Mama: Mama, tell James to come out.

Mama: (at the same time) sit down.

Mama: James.

Me: Just for a minute. I'm not trying to be here long. 

Mama: I know. You can sit down if you want to.

Me: I'm good.

Me: You look pretty.

Mama: No I don't. Thank you though.

Me: Hey James.

Me: All I wanted to do was to say to you...right now James (I became emotional)

Mama: OK keep it together.

Me: I'm keeping it together.

Mama: You sure?

Me: I promise.

Mama: You sure?

Me: I'm sure.

Mama: No you keep it together:

Mama: Sit down then. Sit down. Sit down. Stop it. Robin. Robin. 

James: Just get yourself together.

Me: When I came and we had that talk, remember me and James....

Mama: You get anything in your pocket recording.

Me: No, why would I mama?

Mama: I know how you do you do all these little tricks and stuff.

Me: Mama don't try to change the subject.

Mama: Go head, Go head but I ain't gon be recorded by no one.

Me: I want....Why would you care if you are in the right?

Mama: I am but I...

Me I don't want to talk about that I just want to tell you (motioning to James) something.

James: Let her finish what she has to say. "Bunk" (what he calls my mother)

Mama: Go head.

Me: Let me say this because I don't have time.

Mama: Go head.

Me: I did not want to pop up on yal but this is what it is now. When I came and you and I talked (addressing James) and I said that I forgive you I meant it and you know I meant it with all my spirit.

James: I know

Me: Then when wendy called and told me it had happened to Crystal and you'd told me that it didn't happen to nobody else after I told you that, "I forgive you and now it's all good.

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Me: I just want to tell you (motioning to James) something

James: Let her finish what she has to say. "Bunk" (what he calls my mother)

Mama: Go head.

Me: Let me say this because I don't have time.

Mama: Go head.

Me: I did not want to pop up on yal, but this is what it is now. When we came and you and I talked (addressing James) and I said that I forgive you I meant it and you know I meant it with all my spirit.

James: I know.

Me: And when Wendy called and told me it had happened to Crystal and you'd told me that it didn't happen to nobody else after I told you that, "I forgive you and now it’s all good.” I cannot…this is me now…and I know you remember…You Lied. And when you said you tried t tell Crystal and you said you could bring yourself to tell her, and I just let it go because I felt like I could understand why you could tell your daughter that….she already knew. So, from where I am standing, I am in a position where…everybody knew, and everybody pretended.

Mama: No you’re not cause everybody didn’t know.

Me: Mama, Wendy said she knew, Wendy told me that she knew.

Mama: I thought you came here to clear the air.

Me: I am clearing the air. You can’t tell me how to clear the air.

Mama: Well I can tell you.

Me: This is not me getting upset.

Mama: It’s arguing.

Me: This is not….I want to know can you see where I am coming from knowing…?

James: Robin I am only about one thing and that’s forgiving and forgiveness.

Me: You would be because you need forgiveness.

James: I’m only about forging and being forgiven.

Me: Can I ask you this.

James: I can’t undo what I have done. I can’t make history all over. I done wrong. I’m sorry, and that’s all I can do. If you forgive me you forgive me. If Crystal forgive me she forgive me. If Wendy forgive me she forgive me if Bunk me she forgive me. I can’t undo the past. I have to just let it go.

Me: I forgive you.

James: Because if I live in the past, I will be a dead man tomorrow.

Me: I forgive you.

James: I’ll be a dead man tomorrow.

Me: I forgive you.

James: You gone be a dead man tomorrow.

Me: Do you hear me? I needed to say that to you because the last forgiveness was based off of missing information.

James: Like I say, we gon just have to let it go and ask the Lord to forgive us. I spent a lifetime trying not to repeat my sins. I just cant…I can’t keep living in the past.

Me: I agree.

James: It can only destroy me, Bunk, and everybody. Crystal and all of them, they decided to move on and just let it go. Cause they know you can’t change the past. We all made mistakes. We all have done terrible terrible things. Me, you…all of us done terrible things in our lives.

Me: I aint did no terrible things.

James: Thank God you haven’t, but it’s a lot of us. I’m not the only one…I have done terrible things and I am thankful that the Lord forgave me for those things and I was able to forgive myself and the people I done to. I haven’t been a saint. I’m I’m sorry.

Mama: Robin you look good.

James: and I’m hoping you can get past all this.

Me: Me too.

Mama: I look terrible. I mean thank you, I feel like I look bad. You know, I had told Wendy to tell you that I love you.

Me: I felt like….Mama you stopped talking…..

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I am writing a book called Maternaless Instinct. It's a true story that shines the light on how common it is for a woman to pick a child predator over the child. The first half of its episode reflects my thoughts at the beginning of the year in January. The last part of this episode reflects my thoughts this month. It’s a mad backward world we live in where the child molester is not punished and still has access to the Family…where the wronged get stoned and the silent treatment for telling the truth.

I took the time to speak with Martin Abdullah to get his perspective on what it means to be Black in America.

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· Attorney Watsi M. Sutton graduated from Washington High School in 1994 with highest honors and then obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 1997, graduating summa cum laude after only 3 years of college.

· Attorney Sutton pursued and obtained her law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law in 2000 and was licensed to practice law by the North Carolina State Bar in August 2000.

· Before opening the office of Watsi M. Sutton, P.A., Attorney Sutton served as an Assistant District Attorney for the Honorable Seth H. Edwards, District Attorney for the Second Judicial District of North Carolina, comprising Beaufort, Hyde, Martin, Tyrrell, and Washington County.

· Attorney Sutton is the former Managing Attorney for the New Bern office of Legal Aid of North Carolina, a nonprofit law firm serving 80,000 low-income citizens in northeastern North Carolina, facing foreclosure, domestic violence, family disputes, unemployment, and tenant evictions.

· Prior to returning home to eastern North Carolina, Attorney Sutton worked in large and mid-sized Raleigh area firms, handling civil disputes on behalf of large corporate clients.

· Endorsed by the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys, Attorney Sutton was a nominee for District Court Judge in 2010, winning the May 2010 primary.

· Though she did not prevail in the general election, Attorney Sutton's candidacy helped to expand the local electorate by engaging first-time, young and diverse voters across five counties around the cause for justice for all.  Attorney Sutton was again nominated for District Court Judge in February 2018 by her attorney peers.

· As a solo practicing attorney since 2006, Attorney Sutton has concentrated her practice primarily in the criminal and civil District Courts, representing clients in traffic, criminal and domestic matters. Among her colleagues and court personnel, Watsi is an astute attorney who is well respected for her diligence and passionate advocacy on behalf of her clients.

· She is a member of Koinonia Christian Center Church, in Greenville, N.C., where she serves in outreach ministries and the church bookstore.

· Watsi is the proud mother of a son in college, Cameron.

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Written and recited by Robin Mills