Black and White, Hit and Run

Recently Joanne has been involved in something horrifying. About a month ago I received a telephone call from Denver Colorado, a guy named Tilo Voitel, who identified himself as a detective with the Denver PD. Obviously the first call, you fear the worst...a parents nightmare. He assured me right away that Joanne was OK, then went on to explain that she was a part in, or witness to a hit and run accident. Of course, I was stunned, but listened, and offered to help in any way possible. Later, after having verified his story, I began to dig into the event. Joanne was being vague regarding the event, protecting the driver of the car, and right away I figured it was here "boyfriend", a black who identified himself as "Eric Stokes". This guy is a real loser, crack addict, violent asshole, who deserves the term, nigger. Unfortunately, Joanne has a child with him, and so he holds the baby over her head like an ax.

She stayed with us from late August to October, during which time we figured she was trying to make a break from this scumbag. In October, without warning, she aquired our bank account information, as well as a friends credit card, cleaned out our account, racked up all kinds charges, and split for Wichita Kansas. Needless to say, we were devistated.

As we came to find out, the hit and run fatality occurred in July in Denver. The driver fled the scene after dragging the hapless victim, Travis Kubiak almost 700 feet to his death. All along I suspected this "Stokes" guy, and finally last week, my daughter, under pressure implicated a 41 year old black man named "Gerald Brown" in the incident. He had been living with relatives in Wichita Kansas, and I believe that "Eric Stokes" is probably his alias. As you can tell from the article, he is an honorable man ("What the fuck did I hit?"......screeeech...varoooom), with a penchent for doing the right thing (crack). I can only hope they give him a long and unmitigated sentence, but knowing how the system works, I have my doubts. He'll probably try and pull some racial trick ("they's violated my cibil rights..."). That's the way it is in America today. Gotta pay the reparations for our ancestors slavery....

We were inexorably drawn into this tragedy, and my waking thoughts and sleeping dreams have been tainted by it.

I'm hopeful my daughter will keep doing the right thing and work with the authorities to see this guy has a fighting chance at being locked up for a long time. My heart goes out to the Kubiak family and Ms. Zimmerman. If I were them, it'd be a hell of a hard thing to forgive someone like that. But then again, it's pretty hard to hold an animal on the same level one would a human.....