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My interview with Regina Kelly. The woman whom the film American Violet is based on (129 hits)

Hi this is George Cook of www.letstalkhonestly.com . Many of you may or may not know who Regina N. Kelly is. She is a African American woman falsely arrested on drug charges who refused to take a plea deal and fought back. Her story is the basis of the film “American Violet” now playing in limited release across the united States. I have been honored to interview Regina and some of the things we discuss are:

*What happened the day she was arrested

*How she feels about her country today

*Why she wouldn’t take the plea deal

*How her arrest affected her children

*How other than the NAACP no civil rights “leaders” stepped up to help her and much more.

Listen to the interview by using the link below:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/LTHSpecial...

Posted By: George Cook
Wednesday, July 22nd 2009 at 5:49PM
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I would love to talk to you about a project I'm working on.
Thursday, July 23rd 2009 at 2:05AM
Davetta Sherwood

Thanks for posting these informative blogs about what's going on in the Black community.
Thursday, July 23rd 2009 at 10:08AM
Jen Fad

I also wanted to add that I learned very early about the need for "real lawyers" vs. court appointed people when I was a young university student in my final year of nursing school. I was very fortunate to obtain an attorney who I will never forget helped me out so much with just a phone call to an overzealous Columbia South Carolina police detective who was hell bent on "pinning" me with stealing a "so called family heirloom" of a elderly patient at a hospital (that shall remain nameless) for which I worked at the time.

Get this...the daughter who wasn't in the hospital at the time to witness the so called event told the detective that I did it & that was the basis of the whole investigation (after all this woman was a reliable witness from her house). I took a lie detector test and passed with flying colors only to be accused of taking a some kind of "calming drug". It was a circus until my attorney called the detective and told him never to contact me again. I was left in peace to concentrate on my final exams.

Thursday, July 23rd 2009 at 10:40AM
Jen Fad