Teen Drives By His Brother’s Dead Body on the Way to School: Victim of Bullying
by Dr. Boyce Watkins
Gun violence is the leading cause of death for young black men. One of the great frustrations for the African American community is that politicians in Washington act as if the violence doesn’t exist, and our kids keep dying as a result.
The latest death was in Washington DC. Marckel Ross was killed on his way to school and his brother, Markies, actually drove by his dead body.
“I can’t believe somebody would do this to him,” Markies told the Washington Post. “He was a great person… Everybody loved him.”
Marckel didn’t seem to have any serious problems in his life, but he was the victim of bullying. This death was as shocking as the death of Amber Stanley, another teen in DC who was recently murdered while she slept in her bed. You can read more about Marckel’s death in The Washington Post.
While the people in Washington define the image of bullying to be someone making fun of gay kids in the suburbs, my image of an even more vicious bully is that of a 16-year old gang banger with an AK-47. As politicians look the other way while gun manufacturers grease their pockets by letting deadly weapons slip through the cracks, our kids are paying a price for our silence. Those who don’t die before the age of 18 are every bit as traumatized as combat veterans, watching their friends die one-by-one.
This should not be what a childhood is all about.
Are we going to speak up for these kids? I certainly hope so. The voices should rise from the bottom to the very top, and that includes the black man in the White House who was so concerned about those dead kids in Colorado.
Dr. Boyce Watkins is a Professor at Syracuse University and founder of the Your Black World Coalition. He also appears in the Janks Morton film “Hoodwinked.” To have Dr. Boyce commentary delivered to your email, please click here.
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As long as blacks and low income whites are slaughtered no one cares. Until a white politicians son is faced with this tradegy its not important. They simply do not care.
Even if a white politicans child is killed or kills themself as a result of bullying or something else, the politician will only be concerned long enough to see that the person or people responsible for his/her loss is brought to justice. The reality is that no one really cares enough about people of color to want to do anything to make a difference. Not even our beloved president. Even low income whites are looked at as more important than blacks. And that is the truth.
LOL LOL so you admit your “beloved” president doesnt care but he is still your beloved LOL LOL
I bet your husband beats your azz up and down the highway and he is still your beloved to LOL LOL
LOL BUT SHE STILL LOVES HER HUSBAND “ONLY” BECAUSE HE IS BLACK TOO RIGHT.. LOL LOL
What a stupid comment you just made. People like you should not be allowed to reply. You sound just like a stupid, ignorant, foolish, etc…little brat.
Crystal ignore the two idiots previous responses. I understand completely what you are saying. Killings of our youth has been a problem since the 80s and that covers numerous presidencies. The issue is one that no one cares about until it touches them.
You are a d**n lie. The killings of black youth has quadrupled in the last 4 years. AND THIS IS WHY.
By June 2010, suspects had purchased 1,608 firearms at a cost of over US$1 million at Phoenix-area gun shops. At that time, the ATF was also aware of 179 of those weapons being found at crime scenes in Mexico, and 130 in the United States.[8] As guns traced to Fast and Furious began turning up at violent crime scenes in Mexico, ATF agents stationed there also voiced opposition.
Altogether, 2,020 firearms were bought by straw purchasers during Fast and Furious These included AK-47 variants, Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifles, .38 caliber revolvers, and FN Five-sevens. As of October 20, 2011, 389 had been recovered in the US and 276 had been recovered in Mexico. The rest remained on the streets, unaccounted for.Operation Fast and Furious was just one of four such operations conducted over five years during the Bush and Obama administrations.
You are right: it is the gun’s fault. Did you know that whitey (the maker of all guns) has put a secret electronic chip inside of all guns made since Obama took office? The first time I saw one of those newfangled guns with the chip in in it, I couldn’t believe my eyes. These new guns actually load themselves, then are smart enough to find a black man (or teenager), jump into his hand (the gun is even smart enogh to know when the black guy is left-handed), then automatically aim itself, but only at another black person; it then hypnotizes the black man that holds it, and makes him put his finger on the trigger and pull. These chipped-guns also automatically call the police after the shooting.
Get over the insanity of blaming the gun. This nation has had millions of guns since the day it began way back in 1776. Only in the past 10-20 years has black-on-black gun violence gone off the charts. As much as I dislike Obama and would love to blame all this on him, the black-on-black murder spree is NOT his fault. It is NOT George Bush’s fault either. Nor is it Santa Clause’s or the Easter Bunny’s.
The fault lies squarely on the souldders of the millions of black men whose parenting dudies ended shortly after they squirted out a few sperm, and equally with the millions of black women who have agreed to participate in such a pathetic excuse for a “relationship.” The world can be a real ugly place, and children need a MAN to guide them in the right direction. Mama can only try — it takes a man to actually get the job done. Forget all that left-wing c**p about how women are equal to men, it just isn’t true. A woman can NOT be a FATHER to a child, she literally cannot do it. Almost 100% of these boys/young men that pull the trigger are children of sperm donors who haven’t been around to be a father, and virtually all of them are also children of women that don’t have once ounce of morals. It is time for all people, especially black people, to pick up their Bibles and start following the instructions. When you get the logs out of your own eyes, then you can see clearly to get the splinter out of the white man’s eye.
As for Fast & Furious, that is a serious issue. The Fast & Furious program intentionally sold guns to known criminals by telling gun dealers to ignore the “do not sell” list when certain people with believed ties to the Mexican drug cartels showed up. The idea was to track the guns to the Mexican drug cartels, sort of a method of discovering the network. Unfortunately, the Obama administration bungled the program in a huge way, and we all know the horrid results. Fast and furious began in 2009, and ended in 2011; as such, this was an Obama program. Fast and Furious was the last in a series of similar programs under “Project Gunrunner.” Project Gunrunner started in the second term of George Bush, but was smaller in scale, and each new phase of Project Gunrunner had a different code name, such as Operation “Wide Receiver” in 2006. To simplify the matter, instead of ending the Bush era program when taking office, Obama actually expanded it when he launched Fast & Furious program in 2009, while at the same time putting new people in charge at the top of the system — they royally screwed it up, and the rest is history (and an ugly one at that). It is only George Bush’s fault in the sense that he started the Project Gunrunner program; it was at at stopping point when Obama took office, but Obama chose to continue and expand it — and all the really bad stuff happened under the Obama authorized Fast & Furious program (not that it was good when Bush was doing it).
Mel I never said GUNS are the problem. I said the stupid fast and furious program that called for giving drug cartels thousands of guns, with traceable chips in them was stupid. It is the reason that young black boys who cant buy a bicycle, have high powered deadly weapons in one hand, and cocaine in the other. Hundreds of those guns landed in the hands of black american children.
If you want to continue to be another slave thinker, blame the children, blame the mothers for daring to do what God put them here to do (procreate), you can do that.
Black women are people – human people, who need love, companionship, and children just like the next woman. Just because a woman doesn’t have a husband, doesn’t mean that her God given right to procreate should be taken away from her, and nor should her offspring be easy prey for the evil, and the drug cartels. We used to have a child welfare system. What the h**l did obama do with it? Why aren’t they questioning the people who s****h these kids, and contribute to the delinquency of a minor?
Sitting around blaming victims is just stupid, and it speaks to your slave mentality. Break generational curses. Demand police protection for black children, just like white children get.
Shouldn’t we as Black people care enough ourselves and say enough is enough. We need to be more responsible for our kids. Morals have gone out the window. s*x and guns and drugs and not wanting to be educated is what is consuming our race. When will we open our eyes and get convicted. We can make a change. But do we really want to. I agree about the unfairness 100%. But we have to begin to take back what is rightfully ours. Mommies love and teach your children. Daddies be the head, and not the tail in your children’s lives. It’s a choice thing.
Very true. This is more of a community issue than a political issue. African Americans must help educate and support African Americans. Black or White in the white house is all the same (they live in the White House for goodness sake). They live up and out there. Not in and down here on the streets, going through the mundanity of everyday hood life, trying to make it like many of our urban families and youth. You must get to the root of the subcultural affinity for violence (does anyone question the music or stop buying the albums of the lil Wayne’s and the like?) and systemically attack the cause. The cause, intra-community purveyors of violence ( the music, the drug dealers and gangbangers who torture the neighborhoods, the absent and/or crime afflicted (typically) fathers) the unengaged and undereducated mothers (and fathers who are present too). We must raise the black standard collectively. Obama can’t fix this. Only the collective “We” can. And We must begin to tackle these issues systemically. It starts with a boycott of the media purveryors of violence specifically to our communities and intracommunity volunteers to impact our youth and families.
You’re dumber than a d**n post. The govt law enforcement police will lock your azz up in a wink of the eye, if you try your stupid azz self policing. You’re not on a d**n Indian reservation with rights to govern your own territory.
great comment reader, i totally agree. we must get involved and do for self!
I agree Prinzez! It is our responsibility to take back our communities. We too often pass the buck to federal politicians but the problem is more grass roots. The churches, community representatives, mayors, and schools need to be seriously involved. The moms & dads need to to take an active role in their childrens’ lives. Talk to them not at them and really listen. None of us are perfect but if we all begin to do the best we can as parents, that will have a positive affect on our children. There are alot of angry lost children out here and they are ours…..
Aren’t you too busy sending money to Haiti and AFrica instead of helping the single mother next door with the 7 kids??? They starve while you brag about raising money for Haiti just like your president encouraged you to.
Instead of helping the kid next door you ignore him and watch him suffer, while your kids run around with money in their pockets and designer clothes, and you really think that is OK, and you really believe he wont grow up to despise, envy and bully and hate you.
Many american negroes are so busy running around trying to take care of every black in the world, that they dont even know who their community is.
Everybody black aint your community. While other blacks worry only about their ethnic group, american blacks are busy giving out their few resources to people that NEVER give them anything back.
It all started with Bush. Bush encouraged oprah and michael jackson and black americans with affirmative action wealth to give to foreign blacks at the expense of their black american community, and obama has done nothing to reverse the tide.
Yes, we should help where we can and it is too bad that people are more willing to help someone in another country rather than those here at home. However, that single mother next door should have had more sense than to have 7 children that she knew she couldn’t afford to take care of. People should not lay and play and then expect others to pay.
mts u probably believe all them snot nose africans begging on your tv come from 2 parent families who use birth control
Everybody black I know is loving and taking care of their children the best they can without a job, without food, without a stable home. You need to talk to your black people and stop making rascist statement. You dont speak for ALL black people, and you dont know ALL black people. You sound like a klan member.
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON – While the military “quagmire” in Iraq was said to tip the scales of power in the U.S. midterm elections, most Americans have no idea more of their fellow citizens – men, women and children – were murdered this year by illegal aliens than the combined death toll of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan since those military campaigns began.
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON – While the military “quagmire” in Iraq was said to tip the scales of power in the U.S. midterm elections, most Americans have no idea more of their fellow citizens – men, women and children – were murdered this year by illegal aliens than the combined death toll of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan since those military campaigns began.
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON – While the military “quagmire” in Iraq was said to tip the scales of power in the U.S. midterm elections, most Americans have no idea more of their fellow citizens – men, women and children – were murdered this year by illegal aliens than the combined death toll of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan since those military campaigns began.
what do WHITES have to do with BLACKS MURDERING EACH OTHER? WE ARE NOT YOUR MASTERS ANYMORE, TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS AND THAT OF YOUR PEOPLE.
Silly little minded person, it is the Whites that are making the rules to the game that everyone eles is living by
The teens were not murdered in DC.They were killed in state of Maryland.
Stop waiting on the government to save the lives of your children, what are you doing as a parent?
If you know your child is being bullied what are you doing to stop it? I would start with the school, parents and then the court to save the life of my child.
My niece was the victm of bullying many years ago, a boy snatched her book bag and took it home. My brother called the parents told them what happened and had a meeting with them. They were unaware their son had the bag until he brought it from his room to give to my brother.
My brother then told them they would be sued for every penny they had if my niece was bothered again. The bully stopped his bullying. I know this will not work in every case, but you have to start.
African-Americans parents need to get involved, I feel sorry for the children. Where are the FATHERS?
FINALLY SOME SENSE INJECTED INTO THE CONVO.
Elizabeth if you watch the news at all, you know that white children are coming up missing and never being found, being shot down, being kidnapped by child molesters, etc etc, but we dont hear you telling all white people it is their fault. Shut the h**l up. We have large numbers of american haters and terrorist that are setting fires, and killing americans one by one.
Stop blaming gun violence on law abiding gun owners. Stop blaming gun violence on gun makers . We have plenty of laws on the books already, and I am unwilling to give up any more freedom for a false sense of security. I can’t believe black men and women are looking for the Government to try and solve a problem that it’s incapable of solving. We are our solution. We must get active in our kids lives. We must start snitching. We must remain vigilant and care for one another, and show respect for each other. That same government that you allow to take away your second Admendment rights can also take away your first and fourteenth…
Aman!
Be real. You cant take the law in your own hands. White people work WITH the police, not alone. You’ll end up in jail faster than the bully criminal trying to take the law in your own hands.
Do you realize just how ignorant you sound?
Everybody black I know loves and cares for each other the best they can. Sorry if your black community is messed up. You dont speak for all of us. You sound like the grand wizard. Making a blanket rascist statement.
I am so sick and tired of hearing about how the d**n GOVERNMENT is ignoring our community! Maybe, just maybe, if we stop IGNORING our community, we won’t need to depend on the NO caring Government. Why in h**l does the Government have to intervene on our behalf for OUR CHILDREN! Where in the h**l are the parents, neighbors, and church? Where in h**l are the FATHERS and BLACK MEN who care about their family? Where is the neighborhood watch. Whatever happened to, “I am my brother’s keeper”? Did the d**n black community all of a sudden go BLIND? You mean to tell me that NO ONE has witnessed these murders? Have black america become this PATHETIC? Why aren’t we identifying and testifying in droves and demanding the DEATH PENALTY for these cowardice BASTARDS? Someone explain to me what in the h**l the government suppose to do to keep us from KILLING up ourselves????
You really don’t understand the forces at work here. To solve the problem of violence would entail violence because the group that has been holding the community hostage will not just stop doing what they are doing! So we are asking people to make the ultimate sacrifice. I am one that believes that a man and men of a community should make that sacrifice but I can not demand they do it.
Power does not give of itself freely!
Look at your d**n pay check fool!!! half of your d**n check is taken out in TAXES!!! WE WOULD BE d**n FOOLS TO PAY HIGH TAXES AND NOT EXPECT POLICE PROTECTION, AND ALL THE OTHER SERVICES OTHER COMMUNITIES GET.
PLEASE DONT VOTE, IF YOU DONT EVEN KNOW WHY YOU PAY TAXES.
Can we be sure that it is young Black males killing each other? With the George Zimmermans, police that kill Blacks and the racial vigilantes, we can’t be sure that these unsolved killings are always the result of Black on Black crimes. There is never a discussion of a serial killer that may target Black males.
The newspaper article didn’t say a d**n thing about bullying. Yet these self hating slaves on this blog are blaming their community members and causing more division, hate and violence.
It was likely an illegal alien who killed the boy. Illegals aliens are never caught because they have no history of being in the country – no birth certificate, social security card, nothing.
Terrorist are here in LARGE numbers, by the millions.
Mexican/foreign drug cartels are giving boys high powered weapons and teaching them to kill only their own black community. These children are victims, just like the people they shoot.
Illegal aliens are a very real problem. Not only is their very existance illegal, they commit numerous additional crimes while here. Most drive w/o insurance or even a license. Most forge or steal documents, such as social security cards, to appear legal to employers and the welfare office. (That’s a 5-year federal felony, all by itself. If a “legal” American did that, we would be put under the jail.) An illegal alien male that happens to have been born after 1959 is REQUIRED to register for the draft just like all us legal people are; again, failure to do so is a 5-year felony. Even the nicest of the illegal aliens are almost certain to be felons roaming the streets of our nation. And many aren’t very nice at all, like the La Raza people, the numerous Mexican drug gangs, and the countless drunk Mexicans that drive down the roads killing people. We also have illegals from eastern Europe and the middle east, 14 of the 19 9-11 hijackers were here illegally when they flew those planes into the buildings. Sadly, no President of either party has every done anything in a serious attempt to put an end to illegal aliens; and even more sad, president Obama has actually taken steps to make it easier for illegal aliens to get amnesty. And no, I’m not opposed to legal immigration. My mother was an immigrant — a LEGAL one. (she is a citizen now)
Thank you for speaking out. Most black americans have no clue about other cultures, and thought processes, that are affecting their community.
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Yes we need the schools to take more responsibility as it relates to handling bullies as the mother clearly complained about the situation regarding her son all the way to the Board of Education. However what is more shocking in this situation is that this mother would move her children from a better neighborhood in Anne Arundel County to District Heights as she stated in her own words “she felt they were old enough to fight for themselves”. Is she crazy or what. Violence is violence and even on the news it was stated the child had to repeat a grade due to “adjusting socially”. Come on mom you should have known better! You should have stayed in Anne Arundel for the safety of your children, now she stated on TV that she is considering taking her other 2 kids out of school and moving them somewhere else.
In the case of black on black violence, the generations now living are LOST… any one over the age of 6-7 yrs. old is LOST…… mothers and dads need to start working on the “babies” NOW, create the next generation that won’t do this. BUT these young thugs of today, from the 1st grade on up are LOST….. they will have to kill and die off before this ends! BUT then only if mommies and daddies start NOW WITH the babies!!!!!!
I am sorry for the children in your neighborhood. Any time a child of 6-7 year old is so hardened that he has lost all of his sense of empathy and childhood innocence, then he has not been nurtured well at all, even in infancy. A child like that has been sexually, emotionally, physically and psychologically abused so much that he can feel no empathy for anyone. and EVERY d**n ONE OF THE PARENTS SHOULD BE LOCKED UP.
WHERE IS THE d**n CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM THAT USED TO RESCUE THESE CHILDREN. I PAY MY TAXES FOR POOR CHILDREN TO BE PROTECTED. WHY ARENT THE TEACHERS REPORTING THIS CHILD ABUSE. THEY HAVE A DUTY TO DO THAT.
WHAT YOU SAY IS SICK. PLEASE REPORT THE ABUSE. PLEASE.
How many people leave the violence filled communities to reside in the suburbs instead of trying to reach out to kids who are heading down the wrong path? People are less concerned with kids that don’t belong to them until one of those kids do something to their kids. When something tragic happens, everyone wants to cry out that there is an outrage but you just don’t wake up one morning and your community is riddled with crime. Step by step, it gets worse every day. By combating the little things we can change our community and showing kids that there are opportunities for them to succeed. Someone has to care enough to want to make a difference in our community because if we don’t, who will?
One of the reasons I dont like Obama is because he pits the rich against the poor and divides our community. The blacks with a few dollars used to know they had a duty to give back and reach back, and now they thumb their nose at the poor and abandon them to give to blacks in other countries. A friend of mine said they raised $60,000 at her church for haiti. All the while the black boys in her neighborhood have nothing to do but break into their houses. I asked her,
“Do you know how many car washing, and lawn mowing jobs you could have given to the boys in your neighborhood with $60,000? How do you thnk they feel when they hear you give to outsiders and watch while they suffer? When they break in your house, you have no one to blame but yourself. You could have chosen to help your own community with that money. Their are plenty of haitian natiionals in america with good jobs to help their own.”.
Parents,
Were you able to eat dinner with your children tonight, and ask them how was their day, instead of you getting ready to go out with your girls or your boys?
Did you check their homework tonight, instead of asking them did they do their homework?
Will you ask them what do they want to do in their future, or will you just leave that to them?
Will you give your children God, the best present you could give!
Show them strength, love and courage. They’ll respect you for that, and be part of the difference for the better in this world!
I mean this is not everything, but it is a good start.
When are you d**n stupid fools going to realize that you cant do a d**n thing about terrorist killing your kids!!!!
When are you going to stop talking like a d**n slave and blaming your own black american community? And allowing the terrorist to divide and conquer.
There are millions of terrorist and Osama Bin Laden followers in America looking for an opportunity to kill a black male, since they cant get to the one who takes the credit for killing their leader.
The mexican drug cartels are using high powered weapons given to them by the current U.S. justice dept to kill innocent black and white americans.
All your d**n blame ourselves, blame the victim sh8t is only getting your children murdered.
The black face has become the target of AMERICAN HATERS.
Agreed Prinzez
Maybe, just maybe if Black folks would protest these killer-thugs the way that they do when White folks kill a Black things would be different.
Maybe, just maybe when Black folks know who the killer is, and instead of “no-snicthing”, they all drop a dime on the killer and everyone in the community commence to beating the s**t out of him, maybe things will be different.
We all get mighty mad when a White person kills us, but I think we should get even madder when it’s Black-on-Black.
Maybe we need to call these thugs by their more appropriate name: Terrorists! ‘Cause that’s what they are!
And the mexican drug cartels who got the high powered weapons from your black justice dept head to give to your black teenagers will celebrate when fools turn on each other, instead of toward each other.
Just maybe you should communicate with the teenage boy victim, who is threatened with decapitation for snitching.
And the mexican drug cartels who got the high powered weapons from your black justice dept head to give to your black teenagers will celebrate when fools turn on each other, instead of toward each other.
Just maybe you should communicate with the teenage boy victim, who is threatened with decapitation for snitching.
And the mexican drug cartels who got the high powered weapons from your black justice dept head to give to your black teenagers will celebrate when fools turn on each other, instead of toward each other.
Just maybe you should communicate with the teenage boy victim, who is threatened with decapitation for snitching.
No scandal is more threatening to the Obama administration than Operation Fast and Furious. While other scandals involve money, Fast and Furious involves lives, including that of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, gunned down with a weapon that the federal government put in the hands of Mexico’s narco-terrorists.
Hold onto you seats people! It is not any politician’s fault that our young sisters and brothers are in the streets and schools killing each other.
As parents of these troubled teens, most of you aren’t doing your duties as their parents! Most of those that are in the streets and joining these so called gangs are doing so because the people responsible for them do not and have not spent any or enough time with them to even know them! So don’t lay blame on our politicians, it’s not their job to be responsible for our children and their acts of stupidity!
Once you get pass your own selfish needs then and only then will you be able to help decrease the violent ways of your screwed up kids. Most of young folks who have serious problems, problems began in the home first. Lack of attention from Mother and Father. Quit using that petty a*s excuse that ” I have go out and earn a living in order for us to survive.” Turn off that hip hop s**t, turn off the televisions and tune into your children and you will see a dramatic change in the bullying and violence from your children come to an end.
Do you even know where your kids are when they leave home? Most of you don’t even have a clue. Quit being your child’s friend and be the parent that listens and take part in their lives! Try doing things as a family unit and be genuine about it.
Take an interest in where and what your child is doing and see what a difference it makes to your child.
Be responsible and quit looking to the government for help, help yourself first! They are your children unless a politician is your child’s father, then it’s another story there to be told maybe on Wendy Williams Show!
Amen accountability you hit the nail on the head we are and always will be our worst enemy not whites are anybody else. Parents need to go back to raising their own children and quit exspecting everyone else to be their parenting for them. Your are suppose to be the roll model, and guide. If you are not going to do the job of being a loving and caring provider for your children, then for Gods sake don’t bring them into the world. Thank God for the good old days where parents were parents.
Both of you hit the nail on the head. I have a daycare of children 2-5 and most of their parents are so tied up with their issues, they are not raising their children. They’re just letting them grow up in their home, with no real direction, discipline or goals. News Flash (all of these children are white). It’s not a black thing, it’s an ignorant and selfish thing. As an African American, I’ve witnessed this same challenge in black communities. Adults as a whole must take the responsibility of changing the children so they can change the world.
We need both working together. Parents loving and caring, and police protecting and child welfare system protecting, and social workers protecting, and courts protecting and hospitals reporting abuse, and teachers reporting abuse, and neighbors looking out.
ALL OF THESE ENTITIES WERE IN PLACE TO PROTECT CHILDREN WHEN I WAS A KID. WHERE THE h**l ARE THEY NOW UNDER THIS PRESIDENT. WERE THEY CUT FROM HIS BUDGET???.
In my previous comment there are a few typo’s please excuse my errors but it was a rush to complete a thought. Hopefully the point being made is clearly understood. Thanks. Big Papa
Every body has food suggestions when something happens , but we do nothing to prevent it from happening. We all walk around and say its not my business and it is all our business. These problems began when the teens began to have children and “can’t nobody say anything to my child”. Until one causes harm to another then we say how nice he was at home ” I never thought he would do something to harm someone else “. We can blog all day but to not get together and meet and stop frowning when some one looks at you we all need someone in our business. This has nothing to do with a president or a congressman. Your president lives on a street in Chicago where a teen was killed a few weeks ago. Let’s not talk about who doesn’t care and form a group that does. When your all ready give me a day and time I promise to be in your business. And I love my neighbors for being in mine. Single mother 35 of 5.
Only a fool would trust EVERY adult who criticizes her child, with all these child molesters out here.
I sit at the table with my 8 and 4 year old ask them how their day went, and help with homework actually spend time with them. Maybe we should stop blaming each other and teach our children which route to take……
I’m African American and I even believe slave mentality exist sad but true.
So true Harley. I think we have a LOT of great parents whose children are still falling victims to child molesters and murderers. A white friend of mine is the best parent on the planet but his child was still molested. Parents have to work. Low intelligence babysitters are raising most of the kids today. Most of the time we hardly know them, and so much of what happens to our children goes unknown, until it comes out in adulthood.
Chaz Bono is a good example of that. In her book she talks about how severely abused she was by the nanny who wore the smile of innocence and good will in front of her mother, and became a monster as soon as Cher’s back was turned.
I was born and went to school in MD. I was bullied every day. My big brother fought for me and I was left alone until my brother went to HS and I was in Jr. High by myself. I didn’t fight. I was very passive and I was afraid to fight. One day,when I was 12 I got beat up at the bus stop by a girl that was way bigger than me. The following day, another girl who saw me get beat up, literally choked me on the bus. My mother who was at the bus stop came to my rescue. After that incident, my mother was at that bus stop EVERY DAY making sure no one messed with me. Eventually,she had me transferred to another JR. High school where I was bullied again. Again, my mother intervened and told me that I needed to start standing up for myself. When my brother was in 9th grade, these bigger boys started trying to bully him. One time 4 boys followed my brother home to fight/jump him. My brother went in the house and told our mother that if he don’t stand up for himself they will keep messing with him. So, she gave him permission to defend himself and she will stand out there and watch to make sure they don’t jump him. My brother beat up the 1st bully so badly that the other 3 left him alone. After that, he didn’t have any problems with these bullies. Eventually my mother got tired of the violence and moved us to VA to a better neighborhood and better school. We did not have any issues with bullying.
My point is, my mother did what she could to protect us. She didn’t blame the gov’t b/c to be honest, what can the gov’t do? When I was growing up, the neighborhood church was our back bone. Our parents were parents and not our friends. Our parents disciplined us/Beat our @$$e$ if we got out of line and brought us up in the church.
My father and mother divorced when I was 6 and she didn’t get remarried until I was 13. So, she was a single parent. Parents today need to be proactive in their children’s lives. I believe kids are a product of their environment. Parents need to educate their children on these critical issues. I find it crazy that so many people don’t want the government in their lives but as soon as something like this happen, the 1st people they want to blame is the gov’t. What can President Obama do? Violence have plagued our communities long before Pres. Obama was in office. Take responsibility for your children. Beat their a***s if they get out of line. Put your foot down. Make your kids come home, do their homework, come in the house before the street lights come on. Check on your kids while they are supposed to be asleep to make sure they didn’t sneak out. Get them Saved and start going to a Bible Based church. Do something other than sitting on your b**t waiting on the Gov’t to do something. The Gov’t didn’t have your kids. You did. So, you take care of them. Parents need to take their power back. That’s how my husband and I raise our kids. We don’t play around. We’re actively involved with their school. We discipline (we don’t always pop either)them if they act up. It’s not hard being proactive.
Thank you for sharing Artese. It is unfortunate that your mother didnt encourage you to STAND UP for yourself sooner if the GOVT PAID TEACHER AND PRINCIPLE wouldn’t do WHAT THE GOVT PAYS THEM TO DO. Your tax dollars PAY THEM TO MAKE SURE YOUR CHILD IS SAFE AT SCHOOL. You might have been passive because you were beat too much at home or it could be a genetic trait. Not sure. The GOVT PAID BUS DRIVER should have been fired for letting the girl choke you.
Before Obama’s Fast and Furious (read up on it) allowed thousands of HIGH POWERED weapons to end up in the black community, we only had maybe 15 murders a summer now we have 350 plus, and before obama we had maybe 20 shootings a year, and now we have thousands, and we only had a few handguns, and no one had ever seen a machine gun, and no one had ever heard of tiny babies, and little girls being murdered.
I’m going to say this once again…the Black man needs to go back home, no if, ands, or buts about it. Yes, we single mothers are bitter and angry, but we need to suck it up and let him be a father. I can NOT stand my children’s father…but you know what…my children and their needs far outweighed my resentment and discontent towards their father. Their BIOLOGICAL father is a man and represents that you and your children are protected. When I became a mother all of my dreams were deferred until my youngest was old enough for me to pursue them. That’s called sacrifice. Now brothers, there are no conditions on being a father. She is not your property and she does not have to give you any p***y when you come to see and more so get your children. She doesn’t owe you anything other than respect. Ladies, if he doesn’t want you, he doesn’t want you…point blank. You knew the deal when you decided to have the baby. As parents you are the alpha and the omega in your children’s lives. They will love you no matter what and you need to honor that love by being the best you can be. They deserve the best of you. Now a real man, regardless of the situation, will NOT allow any bullshit around what’s his whether you are in a relationship or not. If you are in a relationship or married (to someone else), then you have two+ protectors. Trust and believe nobody is going to come up in your house as long as there is a presence. We have got to rethink…we can NOT allow our politicians to turn our lives over to big corporations who only see dollar signs. That pipeline from school to prison and community courts is very real and they are plotting on YOUR children. We have f****d up and have f****d up bad…but this is not something we cannot recover from. We must show solidarity. Look at all the other ethnic groups and how they will not let anyone infiltrate, how they support their own. Black people are the ONLY people that don’t do that and I just don’t understand it. Even the gay community has a network that funnels the money back into their community. That’s why they and everyone else gets what they want including public funding. Black people can pour all kinds of crazy money into the church so the preacher man and his can fly around in jets and live in mansions, but the congregants are trying to figure out where the next meal is coming from. There is something very wrong with this equation. Women will spend hundreds even thousands of dollars on weave hair but their children don’t have school supplies and are eating hormone laced “chinken” wings that are turning our boys into girls and a girls into boys. One man said, “you can tell by a woman’s hair how healthy she is if he can just touch her hair.” But women spend billions on an illusion, when the reality is, you are beautiful just the way you are. Do you realize our community is producing whores and murderers? So can we cut out all the nonsense…and Black men go back home and Black women, let him in so that your children, our future, can at the very least have a chance in this life.
Black Americans were greatly united during the civil rights movement. How do you think we did all those marches with millions participating?
The foreign black is 2 million strong in our community now. They came the last 15 years. They want to be with black america only when it comes to using us for a stepping stone. American blacks so desperate to embrace any and everything black and brown, doesn’t examine their character, knows nothing of their culture, knows nothing of their ungodly religions, and knows nothing of their agenda to be in america (many times they come to commit the crimes that will get them wealth quickly).
So 3rd world problems of violence, new diseases, HIV, AIDS, TB, greencard hateful marriages, and drugs come with the black rascism that allowed us to embrace everyone just because of their skin color.
During the Civil Rights Movement, soldiers were willing to give their lives for freedom. These enslaved Blacks know nothing about and are so far removed from the struggle; they think the Civil Rights Movement was a part of the slave trade. My point is even during that time our men were in the home. No one will come in your home when there is the presence of a man, whether he lives there or not. If we are having children, what is the point in not allowing children to have both parents? Of course there are many factors that may impede this happening, but those should be a rarity and not the norm. When a child has a father in his or her life, bullying is less likely to occur. Single mothers are resorting to all types of irresponsible decision-making leading to their arrests in order to protect their children when in the past all you had to do was tell your daddy. I called mine, my children called theirs and the father’s handled it. This is not about the needs of the parents…he doesn’t want you, he doesn’t want you. She doesn’t want you; she doesn’t want you…and in between visitation should be unconditional. The streets should not have more influence in your homes and families than the parents. When one of mine was bullied, I called the school to set up a meeting with the principal and parents, I went to the police station to file a report, during the meeting with the parent I presented the police report told them I’m not in the mood for this s**t, I go to work every day, I send my child to school to get an education, I don’t know why your child comes to school but this mess ends today or we will be in court. Done. No more problems. There is no line between the activities of the parents and that of the children. You can’t tell who is who anymore. Everybody dresses alike, bopping to the same music, mothers and daughters wearing the same weaves and coochie cutters, fathers and sons with matching saggin’ pants, caps turned backwards, white tees/wife beaters…and everybody trying to get paid. No wonder there is so much chaos. There is no respect line between the child and the parents. And this is the results our communities are in turmoil and big business is capitalizing on our ignorance. I have to claim it because these are my people. The question is are you a soldier?
I think instead of having jails in this United States of America, we should have caning. It should be illegal for a person who is mentally unstable or under the age of 30 to have, carry or even look at a gun of any sort including toy guns. I think all young men and women at age 18 should be required to register to vote and join the military until they are 21. I feel that then they will have a better out look on life. Young adults should not be taught about s*x until they are 20-21 their last year in the military. I feel that children in this United States should be required to start school at age 2 in 2k. There is so much that I believe that could make this nation better. If we stand together as one, no republican, democratic or independent party. The old ways, laws, and rules from the 1800 might have worked for this nation back then, but we have come a long way from there and we are still trying to hold on to rules that don’t apply today and along the way people in charge are making more rules that doesn’t apply to every day life as we know it, not even for them selves.
Take your barbaric and ignorant azz to africa. We Americans like our freedom. There is about a trillion africans who will gladly trade places with you.
@Dolores, now that’s some REAL talk…Right On!
Many senseless killings continue to happen everyday in our African American communities and our young black men are the victims of death and perpetractors of heinous crimes upon many unsuspecting citizens throughout our neighborhoods. The politicians in Washington, D.C. seem to overlook the epidemic that has crippled and immobilized thousands of lives and often leading to incarceration and the break up of families. Something needs to done to stop this devastating factor in our society so our children can have a fair chance of accuring and maintaining a healthy and productive life.
Colored people/negroes/blacks have been killing each other way before President Obama.came along. You Uncle and Aunt Ruckuses need to stop with your silly comments.Your lack of real racial pride and self esteem is sickening. You all can’t stand the pressure of your “masters” criticizing the president and you all feel left out. So you look for and try to find a reason to join the bandwagon. “We too, we too, we don’t like that African-American president. He hasn’t paid special attention to our problems.”
Delores, I am quite sure there are many Africans who would like to trade places with me, you or even Miss. T. I served in this country’s military, for several years. I am one of the reasons why there still is freedom here. However, if you look at specific countries where there is caning you would see that there are no sensless killing, no rapes, no disrespect of the elders. I know this, because I have been there. I would think that the action of bullying is barbaric, see Delores this is what the subject is about and you and Miss. T just proved that you are bullies, part of the problem, not the solution. Why would you request that I go to Africa? Why not Europe or China where there is caning? I think Mell2233 has the best comment on here, posted September 15, 2012 – 2:11 am. Change the people way of thinking, change their action, change this country for the better.