When Your Hand Is In The Lion's Mouth - Nita Whitaker

The best words I can put into this blog are those of Nita’s:

“My dad has lived most of his life with his hand in the lion’s mouth. Being born a black man in the rural south, there was always the desire for a better life and big dreams against the lion’s trampling oppression of the Jim Crow era. Watching his parents and other siblings navigate a way forward to become independent of the systems that held them in a place of inferiority somehow didn’t leave him bitter—it made him better. He lived through and witnessed times I’ve barely read about in our history books but in honoring his name and his family, he embodies the best of us. He taught me and my siblings the ultimate lesson of loving and respecting ourselves in the pursuit of carving out our lives. This is how you pat the lion’s head, and how you make a mark, and how you quietly win at being human.”