Man Robs Bank to Pay For Daughter's Chemo. Gets Arrested. Still Succeeds.
I'm not a news reporter, so I'm not going to report this news-style. If you haven't seen one of the news reports on it, go read the Huffington Post article. I picked that one because of the responses it has from police, and because they were the only reporting site that used a photo of the man with his 1-year-old daughter, not the mug shot.
A lot of people commenting on these reports say that they understand this man's motivation, but that he went about it the wrong way, that what he did was still wrong, that crime is never the right answer.
And I get those responses. Those are "society-must-function" responses. After all, if every father with a dying child and a useless, cruel, inhuman insurance company were to rob a bank, where would our country be?
While Brian Randolph may have gotten arrested and failed to make off with money from the bank, he actually succeeded in his main mission: to fund his daughter's chemo. See, Randolph and his girlfriend, Asia Dupree, started a GoFundMe for their daughter when she was diagnosed with retinoblastoma at 2 months old. But the campaign never got much attention... until Randolph was arrested.
Now donations are trickling in. The GoFundMe for Brailynn is fully funded, and I have high hopes that it hasn't even really picked up steam yet. Donations of $5, $10, $20... from people all over the country, who never would have heard of Brailynn or considered donating, until her daddy robbed a bank.
I say, good for him.
I say, good for anyone who stands up and insists that money is NOT more important than a life.
I say, if every parent with a sick child and an evil, greedy insurance company robbed a bank, our country would be better. Better yet, rob the insurance companies. Because if we hit them in the money, maybe they'll finally listen.
I say good for anyone who can get past the "social good" moral argument and understand that any morality that places value on money (or even laws) above human life is not operating at the highest intellectual or moral level.
I say good for anyone who would risk imprisonment and censure for the sake of someone they love.
I say next somebody starts a GoFundMe to get Brian Randolph a top-notch lawyer. The kind of lawyer you'd hire if you were a rich white man who'd killed a hooker.
Please, if you agree with me, share this post. Or share a link to a news article. But even if you don't agree with me, please share a link to Brailynn's GoFundMe. Because she's only 1, and $37,000 is still not enough to get her cancer-free. And the very fact that money could be the only thing standing in the way of a child living a long and healthy life, or at least a short and pain-free one, should turn anyone's stomach.
There are so many more children with so many more illnesses and desperate parents. Come on, internet. Let's make an example of this case. Let's make this the arrest that changed the medical system. Let's get viral on this.
A lot of people commenting on these reports say that they understand this man's motivation, but that he went about it the wrong way, that what he did was still wrong, that crime is never the right answer.
And I get those responses. Those are "society-must-function" responses. After all, if every father with a dying child and a useless, cruel, inhuman insurance company were to rob a bank, where would our country be?
While Brian Randolph may have gotten arrested and failed to make off with money from the bank, he actually succeeded in his main mission: to fund his daughter's chemo. See, Randolph and his girlfriend, Asia Dupree, started a GoFundMe for their daughter when she was diagnosed with retinoblastoma at 2 months old. But the campaign never got much attention... until Randolph was arrested.
Now donations are trickling in. The GoFundMe for Brailynn is fully funded, and I have high hopes that it hasn't even really picked up steam yet. Donations of $5, $10, $20... from people all over the country, who never would have heard of Brailynn or considered donating, until her daddy robbed a bank.
I say, good for him.
I say, good for anyone who stands up and insists that money is NOT more important than a life.
I say, if every parent with a sick child and an evil, greedy insurance company robbed a bank, our country would be better. Better yet, rob the insurance companies. Because if we hit them in the money, maybe they'll finally listen.
I say good for anyone who can get past the "social good" moral argument and understand that any morality that places value on money (or even laws) above human life is not operating at the highest intellectual or moral level.
I say good for anyone who would risk imprisonment and censure for the sake of someone they love.
I say next somebody starts a GoFundMe to get Brian Randolph a top-notch lawyer. The kind of lawyer you'd hire if you were a rich white man who'd killed a hooker.
Please, if you agree with me, share this post. Or share a link to a news article. But even if you don't agree with me, please share a link to Brailynn's GoFundMe. Because she's only 1, and $37,000 is still not enough to get her cancer-free. And the very fact that money could be the only thing standing in the way of a child living a long and healthy life, or at least a short and pain-free one, should turn anyone's stomach.
There are so many more children with so many more illnesses and desperate parents. Come on, internet. Let's make an example of this case. Let's make this the arrest that changed the medical system. Let's get viral on this.
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