In the Maplewood-Richmond Heights School District, there are about two dozen young men, (KSDK Channel 5’s reportage on the issue implies that they are all African-American), who are/were/should be students at Maplewood-Richmond Heights High School, the only high school in the district, that are homeless.
KSDK informs us that, in virtually all of these cases, (though not in these exact words), mama lets some new boo come in and shack up with her, and new boo, jealous that mama is devoting some of her attention to her teenage son, and probably fearful that he and the teenage son could lock horns to determine household leadership, prods mama into choosing between boo and teenage son. In at least two dozen instances in Maplewood, mama picks boo and kicks teenage son out on the streets.
This sounds like what happens in the leonite world. When a new male topples an existing male pride leader to take control of a pride, he will do two things when he takes over: Drive out the existing adolescent male offspring of the pride’s females, to stamp out leadership competition, then kill small cubs, in order to ready their mother for breeding with him.
We know that the former happens more in the human world than anyone should be comfortable with — Dr. Laura Schlessinger once said that the rate of infanticide in step-families is 60 times higher than in “normal” families, and in virtually all cases in step-families, it’s mother’s new boyfriend murdering mother’s infant children.
Now it appears that the latter is also a little too true in the human realm. If the African-American population in Maplewood has this problem, the you can bet that it has been going on in St. Louis City, East St. Louis, and other similar places, for a long time.
The reason why the Maplewood occurances have become newsworthy is that the MRH District is on the verge of purchasing a residential domicile on Oakland Avenue, near MRH H.S., so that those two dozen homeless young men can have a roof over their heads, and be able to attend high school with one fewer personal distraction.
I am wondering why districts like Parkway, Rockwood, Francis Howell, Ladue and Clayton aren’t mulling the same sort of action.
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