Posted on 05/22/2013 12:34:32 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
JUST HOURS before dawn on May 14, Jackie Underwood's three daughters held her in their arms as the cancer stole the last breath from her broken body.
For many days before, and almost every day since, her children - Makia Underwood, 32, Zakia Clark, 29, and Tasha Clark, 27 - have worn hats and shirts that read "F--- CANCER," with the "C" in "F---" replaced by a breast-cancer-awareness ribbon.
"That's how we feel. It took our mom away. It's a demon. It's the devil," Zakia Clark said. "There are no other words you can use to explain how you feel. You want cancer to get cancer and die."
Zakia and Tasha Clark were wearing their black-and-pink "F--- CANCER" hats Sunday when the three sisters went to King of Prussia Mall with a group of friends and relatives to pick out a dress for Zakia's 9-year-old daughter to wear to her grandmother's funeral today.
The group shopped for 2 1/2 hours, then split up, and Zakia and Tasha, Zakia's daughter, an adult female friend and two girls younger than 5 grabbed something to eat from Master Wok at the mall's upper-level food court.
The ladies had just sat down when a security guard approached them and, without a greeting, ordered: " 'Take your hats off,' " Zakia said.
Zakia took hers off, but Tasha, who once worked at the mall, told the guard she wanted to see something in writing.
It was almost as if Tasha were channeling their mother's strong spirit, Zakia said, and it inspired her to put her own hat back on.
"He said, 'Since you don't want to take your hat off, you can leave my mall,' " Zakia recalled. "He stood there while we ate and threatened to call the cops."
Out of nowhere, Zakia said, seven more guards surrounded them.
"I was very embarrassed," she said. "My daughter was so scared she was crying."
As the group was escorted to the mall office, Makia called and met up with them.
"I couldn't believe they were acting like they were going to arrest my sisters," she said.
Once they got to the office, the women were met by an Upper Merion Township police officer, who had been called to the mall by security guards.
"The officer said, 'I find it offensive that you even have that hat that says 'F--- CANCER,' " Zakia said. "He said, 'It's their mall, they want you out, you have to get out.' "
The women were escorted out, and two security cars were waiting for them at their car just to make sure they left, Zakia said.
"I just wanted to tell them the whole story," Makia said of the guards. "I wanted to tell them a monster came into our house, got into my mother and we had to watch that until the day it took her, so don't tell me it's offensive to say, 'F--- CANCER.' "
Also FTA:
This morning, at their mother’s funeral at Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church in East Mount Airy, they will wear white, as their mother did to every funeral.
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Seriously?? Why not wear all the F-— Cancer crap to church? I’m betting they did.
OK, this is a perfect example of good intention gone wrong
Like libtard programs, they are unable to see the bad they did because they thought they were doing “somethign good”
You’re too kind. I see no sign of any “good intentions” here.
These people were looking to harrass and annoy normal folks. The fact their mother had died of cancer just gave them the stage to act up in public.
Sad.
Isn’t the Democratic party a cancer?
I wasn’t aware cancer can read.
Who in this world would want to F cancer?
There are many more intelligent ways to deal with cancer.
I don’t know how much class their mother had, but Judging from them it wasn’t much. Or at least she didn’t pass it on.
People who have class just don’t do things like this.
My own mother died with cancer also ,many years ago, she would have died from disgrace had she seen me wearing a hat like this.
Luckily no one has ever said anything like that about Obama, liberals, or democrats here on FR.
I would not wear such a hat.
But after losing a sister to breast cancer a few years back, if there are any actual mind readers in this world that happen to probe my brain - well you’ll just have to deal with it!
The perfect summation of my attitude.
>> Luckily no one has ever said anything like that about Obama, liberals, or democrats here on FR.
I’m missing your point, Stu.
Are you saying that what these girls did is okay because there’s occasional vulgarity in this forum?
Or are you saying those of us who commit vulgarities in this forum are equally wrong?
Or... is this just one of those snotty know-it-all-liberal swipes that you’re so fond of, and you really don’t have a clue what point you’re trying to make?
Vile, filthy, and disgusting people need to get back in their closets. Free societies are for the virtuous.
Exactly, I think we still have laws in the states books about vulgar language.
This would and surpass any guideline in a Mall.
This is the same mentality that makes the Newtown parents think that their loss makes them morally superior in discussion of the Second Amendment.
It does not.
Grief and loss are not doors to entitlement.
At some point the F word is simply going to lose its sting. It is still vulgar to my ears, but it is ubiquitous.
When my best friend died of cancer it never occurred to me to do something like this. I was too busy grieving.
Such a message wasn’t going to bring her back.
I have a real beef with “awareness” anything. What do awareness ribbons do but make the wearer feel smug? Sure their clothing choices might have garnered sympathy, but what grieving person wants to draw attention to themself?
Just a snotty not- liberal observations
Cancer be all dis’respectin’ they Mama and $hit.
Fair enough. Your honesty is refreshing, anyway.
I had a very aggressive breat cancer that so far I have beat. While I was having chemo my mother was dieing from breast cancer. She died one week after my last chemo treatment.
I have never joined, advertised for or advocated for any cancer group. I never so much as attended a group meeting, even at the facility where I was treated.
I’m with you, I just dont get it and will never allow an illness to define me.
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