Do we have a clue?

James Leroy Wilson
3 min readAug 13, 2021

I recently saw two documentaries, A Thread of Deceit: The Hart Family Tragedy, and The Flatwoods Monster: A Legacy of Fear.

What do the two have in common? Not much, except they reinforce something I’ve been thinking about recently:

We don’t have any clue what’s going on.

The Hart story is about a large family with a white lesbian couple and six adopted African-American children. (One of them was Devonte Hart, who became famous for giving “free hugs.”) They were all killed when mother Jen Hart drove their SUV off a cliff in California with…

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James Leroy Wilson

Former activist. Writer with a range of interests from spirituality to sports.