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M. Jackson
About The Book
From the writer introduced in "Amazing Grace: A Tribute to You, The Story of Us", D. Michele Jackson returns with questions. Is it not the right to be well in a country that offers civil liberties? This is a question Secret poses on her quest to revise the Nineteenth Amendment. On a mission to secure equality and address the social issues that plague health, Donna is chiming for change in her novel that is based on a true story, “JOY: Jesus on You”.
A native of the “City of Brotherly Love” and a registered
nurse, Secret is on a mission to secure equality and address the social issues
that plague health. She’ll also decide once and for all, if love conquers all.
In the midst of a bitter divorce weeks before Christmas in
2011, Secret finds herself in a small, Southern courtroom pitted in a vicious
dogfight against The Paper. Secret is divorcing a retired sheriff deputy, who
is working on a second career in law enforcement, who had a payroll deposit
going into a bank account not listed in his name and a vehicle that he denied
having, even though there was clear documentation that he is purchased the car.
The Paper is a former police officer willing to break laws to protect his
double life, even if it means committing perjury.
As she detangles herself in a fictional contract socially
accepted as marriage, a document Secret deemed as “final,” Secret is lied to,
deceived, and demoralized. What’s worst is the judge’s final verdict states
clearly that Secret will also be displaced from her home. It is a home she’d
won fairly. It’s a home she deserved. As the winds of change blow, Secret’s new
normal is shaky, what isn’t is her sense of purpose.
Secret decides to take on the establishment, one that seems
bent in destroying her. Besides her faith in God, it helps that as a nurse,
Secret has had seventeen years of experience of what she recited at graduation,
“I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my
profession in the practice of my calling.” Ultimately it’s clear that the local
and federal court systems and the Paper offer her a platform to argue for
wellness as a legal nurse consultant.
After her observation of threats to health as it relates to
marriage, divorce, and law, she begins to question the definition of health as
defined by the World Health Organization, “Health is a state of complete
physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity.” Over the next two years, she will submit brief after brief for
judicial review, advocating for healthcare reform, especially when it comes to
matters of divorce. Secret goes from that small courtroom in Georgia to argue
in the United States Supreme Court. She isn’t ready or even able, but she
chooses to fight the good fight—she chooses this fight, not with anger, but with
heart, and she chooses this fight for all of us.
A narrative that is both heartfelt and impassioned, this
novel loosely based on a true story is told in the first person from a
retrospective point of view. As she offers a chronological glimpse of her
journey, Secret considers her relationships prior to her marriage; each of
these relationships offers health data that could be used for arguments
pertaining to health in which she submitted for judicial review. Secret offers
readers a biopic on sexually charged, if failed relationships, but the most
telling health facts come from the man she divorces. Her experiences are
reinforced by the statistical numbers presented by the Center for Disease
Control and Prevention that, “Women account for one in four people living with
HIV in the United States.”
In a Congressional Public Health and Safety Report, an
argument is put forth that Congress consider the country’s wellness. Secret
lends her voice. A voice that echoes what once sounded to promote women’s
suffrage, “…liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants….” The issues
include suffrage; healthcare cost; the uninsured; decreasing transmission of
HIV/AIDS; criminal justice; unemployment; education; increased divorce rates;
promotion of healthy families; and holding courts accountable to judicial
prudence decisions, as they have a direct effect on health. Health is a
universal right, and neglect of is an offense to well-being.
It’s the United States Supreme Court that Secret comes up
against her greatest challenge to help ensure wellness. Secret requested to
introduce Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs. Secret’s stay request to an
individual justice was on the grounds of Bounds v. Smith, which states, “The
fundamental constitutional right of access to the courts held States must
assure the indigent defendant an adequate opportunity to present his claims
fairly.” Rivals against “justice for all” presented at the United States
Supreme Court clerk who disregards the court rules preventing Secret’s stay
application from being reviewed by an individual justice and the attorney who
shows due diligence in defaming his oath that, “I offer fairness, integrity,
and civility. I will seek reconciliation and, if we fail, I will strive to make
our dispute a dignified one.”
Though blindsided and further disenchanted, Secret forwards
a brief to the Department of Justice requesting a federal investigation
pursuant to a constitutional rights violation, Section 35 of the Judiciary Act
of 1789, Federal Statute 42 US 1983. She argues threat to civic danger,
obligation to exercise judicial review by disregarding purported laws if they
violate the Constitution, and addresses the rights of people worldwide. After
being ignored by every system designed for protection against crimes, Secret
writes to the 113th Congress for relief, and takes advantage of the opportunity
to request policy changes as a politically active nurse requesting legislation
that makes it a crime for a spouse to become infected while married related to
failure to disclose sexual orientation.
Secret is currently waiting for a congressional response.
It’s time for change.
Order JOY – Jesus on You by D. Michele Jackson
Novel Based on a True Story
Travels of the Promises Trilogy (Book 2)
eBook Release Date: December 06, 2016
About the Author
Donna M. Jackson is an African-American woman, a
Philadelphia native, Tuskegee University alumna, and a Registered Nurse.
Writing as D. Michele Jackson, she now adds writer, published, politically
active nurse to her accolades. Her sociology studies at Tuskegee University and
twenty year nursing career enabled Donna to be prepared when the opportunity of
Legal Nurse Consultant availed itself as she represented herself Pro Se in
court. That experience allowed Donna to draft briefs during a historical time
affording her a voice advocating for health. Donna submitted argument to
Congress supporting amending the Nineteenth Amendment.
Website:
http://www.dmichelejackson.com
