Mother Gets 12-Years Prison for Sending Child to the “Wrong” School
by Dr. Boyce Watkins
If you’re looking for a strange brand of justice, you might have found it. Tanya McDowell, a Connecticut mother who was accused of sending her child to a school that is outside her home district, has been sentenced to 12-years in prison. The mother pleaded guilty to fraudulently enrolling her young son in a school in the Norwalk district and stealing $15,000 worth of educational services in the process.
The mother was sentenced to 12-years total, suspended after five and has to pay back $6,200 in restitution to the city of Norwalk. The sentence also includes four counts of drug possession and distribution.
At the time of the incident, McDowell was homeless. Police claim that she was using her baby sitter’s address to keep her child enrolled at a Kindergarten in Norwalk, when she was supposed to be using the schools in Bridgeport, which are of far lower quality.
Darnel Crosland, McDowell’s attorney, says that the biggest loser in all of this is McDowell’s son, who no longer has his mother around to raise him.
“That’s the sad part. He’s with his grandmother and she’s doing the best to raise him,” Crosland said. “I think you should measure her not by the fact that she was arrested for selling drugs but what has she done for her child.”
The case of Tanya McDowell serves as a microcosm of all the reasons why our justice system is designed to create a society that is unsafe, oppressive and racially-segregated. After hundreds of years of hoarding wealth that was not made available to blacks, whites are now able to afford shiny new schools, with plenty of supplies, giving their kids a high quality education. Millions of others, mostly black and brown people, are relegated to low quality schools, where overworked, underpaid teachers don’t even have enough books.
When we quietly endure our oppression and ask for government help in achieving educational equality, we are accused of asking for a handout. But when mothers like Tanya take matters into their own hands in order to give their kids a better life, they are then incarcerated for stealing something that should have rightfully belonged to their kids in the first place.
I spoke with Tanya McDowell two years ago when her case first emerged in the media. Yes, she was involved with drugs, and we discussed that. But what we also discussed was her deep concern for giving her son a better life and how well he was adjusting to his new school. In Tanya’s voice, I heard a mother who felt that, in spite of her own personal short-comings, she was determined to help her son have a better future than the one the world had given to his mother.
I’m not sure how authorities can argue, in any way, that Tanya’s son is better off without his mother around to raise him. I’m also not sure how they can claim that putting this boy’s mother in prison is going to reduce the chances that he grows up and also becomes part of the prison industrial complex. The fact is that an equal and high quality education should be a fundamental American right and we should all be offended that our educational system remains both separate and unequal.
There are millions of other women who, like Tanya, have sent their kids to the “wrong” school to give them a chance to succeed. In a country where it was once illegal for slaves to learn how to read, we now have laws that criminalize parents who wish to help their kids learn as well as the kids in the suburbs. Many of these parents would agree that good mothers should NOT be prosecuted for doing what is right for their children, and I am certainly one of them.
Dr. Boyce Watkins is the founder of the Your Black World Coalition and author of the book, “Black American Money: How Black Power Can Thrive in a Capitalist Society.” To have Dr. Boyce commentary delivered to your email, please click here. Join Dr. Watkins and Min. Louis Farrakhan in Chicago for a summit on “Wealth, Education, Family and Community: A New Paradigm for Black America on March 30 at U. Illinois at Chicago. You can RSVP by clicking here.
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WTF WTF this is so FOS just another way to keep a strong mother down in the dam gutter.
Yes, a strong mother who is a drug dealer and homeless. Probably a repeat offender to get a sentence like that. The judge did the kid a favor, because life couldn’t have gotten much worse for him than it already was.
It’s easy to judge the plight of others when you’ve never walked iin their shoes. What drove this Mother to dealing in drugs or trying to get a good education deal for her son. There is a largeer underlying reason for it all. If we are all honest with ourselves…the comfortable in this society enjoy their comforts on the backs and discomforts of the poor and disenfranchised. What good does it do anyone for another Mother to be placed in prision? Now the son is damaged, tax payers pay more…and NOBODY is Wins. The cycle of the haves (without empathy) and the have nots (without hope) widens every day. Sad state of affairs. Pray for her and her son…and hold the judging to God.
Yes it’s sad, however, she knew full well what she was doing was wrong!
She had a babysitter that lived in Norwalk!
She was not that bad off! Everyone is feeling sorry for her now.
It was the Kindergarden, surly she could have take a little time away fron her drug pushing to make sure the child was getting a quality education!
You crackers have been doing WRONG sence you crawled out of the caves in the caucasus mountains, and you’re still DOING WRONG!
Honkeys deal drugs, take drugs, and give drugs to their little critter kids, so what’s your point?
It’s like, you demonic devils never do drugs, or never do anythang wrong; you blame Blacks for crimes y’all commit and GET AWAY WITH!!!
CHECK:
79% of drug users in this country are caucasoids, but yet Blacks go to jail 10 times more. The pigs detain more whites than blacks for drug use!!!
Study: WhitesMore Likely to Abuse Drugs Than Blacks
“Black youth are arrested for drug crimes at a rate ten times higher than that of whites. But new research shows that young African Americans are actually less likely to use drugs and less likely to develop substance use disorders, compared to whites, Native Americans, Hispanics and people of mixed race.
“Our goal is to alert people to the burden of drug problems and also to how some of our concern about who has these problems may not be true,” says Dr. Dan Blazer, senior author of the study and a professor of psychiatry at Duke University. “There’s a perception among many individuals that African Americans as a group — regardless of socioeconomic status — tend to abuse or use drugs at higher rate and this [does not support] that.”
Using data from 72,561 youth interviewed for the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, researchers found that 37% of those aged between 12 and 17 had used alcohol or other drugs at least once in the past year. Nearly 8% met criteria for a substance use disorder — either the less severe “substance abuse” diagnosis or the more problematic “substance dependence,” which is more commonly known as addiction.
The study, which was published Monday in the Archives of General Psychiatry, controlled for variables like socioeconomic status because rates of severe drug problems tend to be greater amongst the poor. Despite this, Native American youth fared worst, with 15% having a substance use disorder, compared to 9.2% for people of mixed racial heritage, 9.0% for whites, 7.7% for Hispanics, 5% for African Americans and 3.5% for Asians and Pacific Islanders.
GET OUTTA HERE YOU DRUG ADDICT!!!
I COME WITH STATS AND FACTS!
PROOF: PROOF: Drug Abuse Total: 1,377,000: Blacks committed 483,000, and caucaosians committed 875,000
I READ, BYTCH!!!
She was making sure her child was getting a quality education. That was the point of having him in the that particular school–get it?
I know that you are white! If not on the outside, through and through in the inside. At any rate take a little time and read Michelle Anderson, The New Jim Crow. You need to be enlighten!!
If you are black you are in a bad place and that place is self hatred. If white you know where you
are…
@One silverbac, You must be one of those white silverback gorilla,s.
Paul, you are an idiot. You choose to remain am idiot, because you are afraid to see that we live in an oppressive society. Yes Paul, you too are oppressed. I am sure you have relatives who have made mistakes.
You’s a dammed lie.
@paula, I mean paul:
Look, you crazy cracker; a methhead, redneck, cracker put a noose around a Black man’s neck, but he gets to write a paragraph about racism, BUT she sends her child to another school, and she gets 12 years. I don’t give a da.mn what she did in the past. This sentence is fvcked up, and your dizzy azz know it!
You heathens love to put Black people in jail because it’s the new plantation. If that would’ve been a crackhead, methhead fe-male ‘HO, you wouldn’t say shyt! You honkeys take care and defend your own kind when y’all commit crimes on Black people, but negroids are the complete opposite.
WHAT KIND OF SHYT IS THIS?
You demonic devils are some fvcked up M/F’s and these negorids have the nerve to cater to you sick bastu.rds!
Didn’t bushboy kill thousands of people with that WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION bullshyt! Did he go to jail? What about ‘losing’ 9 billion dollars; did he go to jail for that! Look how he treated Blacks in New Orleans with that man-made Katrina storm. Did he go to jail for that? FVCK YOU honkey!!!
BYTCH, get outta here with that bullshyt! I ain’t like these chicken-turkey head negorids…I come to you with Truth and Facts!
GO CRAWL UP YOUR FELONY CONVICTED MAMMY’S AZZ!!!
I really love you, Derrick. when you comment on these issues, I don’t have to say a thing. thank you, brother.
Much Love & Respect!
Beware of this fake, who is duplicating my name!
Whoever it is…I got them in check, but they don’t know it!
Peace, my Sister!
The ignorance goes on in minds daily. Really you digest this foolishness and first of all she was homeless so how do you establish a school district for her to reside..Oh homeless means she attends the low poverty one because she is not in a home true or false. Second if she sold drugs and it help to feed her son and she did not have a job in this economy it would be desperate times with despearate measurers. I do not condone the sell of drugs and as a mother will not say what I want do to provide for my children. This story is deeper than what we are reading so before we judge always remember no one exempt from the injustice we have in this legal system.
d**n Pam i couldn’t have said it better!
I agree, there’s NOTHING of what she did that was STRONG as a MOTHER and she’s a POOr example of PPOR morals for her SON.. JUSTICE served.. and if any of you idiots don’t see this as WRONG? They got a jail cell waiting for you too..BLACK FOLKS GROW the h**l up..and STOP making the WRONG we DO a racial issue..if you can’t do the time don’t do the CRIME..
Jail or prison is not the answer for her .Drugs are brought from outside of our country through our borders so most of which are controlled by white folks if we have a drug problem we need only to look at who controls the borders,guns,courts,and foreign policies.Any kid in the ghetto can point you out to the dope house but the police cant find them come on man its a set up that backfired on them guns and drugs (sale and usage)are effecting their(white community)at the same rate if not higher with meth,and other synthetic drugs.we have to educate everyone(black and white)about the entrapment of this capital assault.
gatekeeper:
“BLACK FOLKS GROW the h**l up..and STOP making the WRONG we DO a racial issue..if you can’t do the time don’t do the CRIME.”
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How much time do these murderous pigs serve when they kill Black men in back of pig cars…even while they’re handcuffed? How about shooting them in the back or the head when they have NO weapons?
Just recently, in Georgia, a cracker pig tried to plant some drugs on a young Black man! The brother pleaded NOT GUILTY, and won the case!
They caught the bastu.rd pig on video trying to plant the drugs. But, when they went to court, all of a sudden the ‘evidence’ (dope) was ‘lost’. He’s walking around FREE, with NO JAIL TIME!
These dirty pigs get office duty instead of ‘jail’ duty when they kill Black men!
Aren’t corrupt cracker pigs a poor excuse for youngsters, who may want to become pigs? They are a POOR example for PROTECTING & SERVING our people! Wouldn’t you think?
WRONG IS WRONG, it’s ALWAYS a racial issue when it comes to crackers.
WEAK COMMENT; NOW CLOSE THE GATE!
If she’s arrested for selling drugs she’s not a strong mother.
Oh she isn’t a strong mother is she? That’s mighty a pompous, judgmental and arrogant statement. I wonder how you feel about Joseph Kennedy, the bootlegger, who became a US AMBASSADOR to England, put all of his sons through elite schools and made them successful political figures in THIS country? Ever heard of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Ted Kennedy….not to mention the daughters and the grandchildren. Have you forgotten how they BUILT THEIR WEALT? Selling alcohol was illegal….but it was a non-violent criminal offense in the United States at that time and it can be viewed as the equivalent of drug dealing today. So what was he? HE WAS A CRIMINAL.
What a stupid santimonious statement. I’ve met mothers who stated they would sell themselves it need be to feed their kids. I suppose they are not “strong mothers either.
This isn’t a black thing or white thing. This is a woman who did the wrong thing. Period.
And this is what p****s me off about s**t like this. People want to scream it’s foul and it’s wrong and she’s mother of the year looking out for her kids.
If she was looking out for her kids she would have done it the right way, not the illegal way. And some on here will quietly agree, but if you work your a*s off to get somewhere, yeah you are going to look funny at someone sneaking to get in the back door to get the same perks/benefits/whateveryouwantocallit. I have more respect for a female who tricks to make the money to afford to live in the neighborhood so her kids can goto a good school system then i have for her.
i’m going to play devil’s advocate based upon an incident that happened here in northeast ohio. There was a woman from a bad side of town who used her father’s address who lived on a very good side of town for her kids to goto school in that district. She was caught after a few years and the kids had to be removed. The city charged her for every year the kids were there to an amount of about 60k i believe. They gave her every opportunity to pay it but she refused. Finally they went and pressed charges for grand theft or larceny or something related to what she was doing. As they were doing the investigation, they discovered the woman was also committing welfare fraud, lying about her income while receiving benefits and section 8. On top of that her father hadn’t payed property taxes in about 20+ years. Again in court they offered to drop the charges if she made out a payment plan. Again she refused. So the judge had no choice but to put her in jail. It may sound like she’s the mother of the year award and all that, but you have to take into account. It costs MONEY to educate these kids. Money that’s payed by TAXPAYERS who live in that CITY. Most schools will offer some type of tuition plan if you want your kids to go there. She circumvented the system by not doing so. Some of you live in well to do neighborhoods. Do you really want someone freeskating through while you work your a*s off for yours to attend the schools?
The worst miscarriage of justice since Jean Valjean.
This case should have never been filed. It shows that the more things change he more they really do stay the same.
How in the heck did Bo Watkins get a college degree???
This article is ludicrous, downright stupid and WRONG!
My son and I were the only black family on the block in our neighborhood. MY PROPERTY TAXES WERE SO DARN HIGH, IT WAS LIKE ANOTHER MORTGAGE, AND EVERY WHITE FAMILIES WAS TOO! None of us were rich in the least.
And you say some drug dealing mother who pays no taxes in the district, doesn’t live in the district, and commits crime against children and adults should be allowed to circumvent the law and use our school, and commit crimes in the district??? Only negroes sit by while predators pick their kids off one by one.
ARE ALL NEGRO LEADERS ON CRACK, CRAZY OR JUST PLAIN DARN STUPID????
Bo Watkins it is negroes like you that have no sense of right or wrong, eventhough you are educated, and spiritual, that is causing rascism to rise at a fever pitch. You need to think about what you are saying. Just because you need a reason to cry rascism on TV so you can get paid doesn’t mean you should hurt society with your dimwit lies that you must know are wrong.
howard, if I was homeless,I’d do anything I could to make money
and if you dont you are less than a man
you’re less of a man to be not intelligence enough to know how to make money without doing something criminal..I
swear I don’t know who is raising these MISINFORMED uneducated ignorance foolish non-sense reasoning PPL..then
we wonder why are our children are doing what they are doing in the streets- kids killing kids..
Fool, this whole corrupt system is fueled by nothing but criminality! So u r the unintelligent one if u haven’t figured that one out yet! And Im not talkin about some homeless woman who never murdered anyone or harmed anyone but herself, but was sentenced to 12 yrs n prison b/c she was determined to see that her kid got a decent education. U seem to b one of those brainwashed uneducated types that don’t read & gets all ur info fr the lying propaganda spreading mainstream media whose only objective is to sell blk criminality n order to mask its own rampant criminality & corruption. This racist unjust economy has always been fueled by blk free labor n 1 form or another. First it was chattel slavery, then Jim Crow & now there’s The Prison ndustrial Complex; different names, same game! The Wall Street criminals, banksters & politicians every day murder, steal to the tune of billions, bring down whole economies & never see one second of jail time. Where’s ur outrage concerning that sh*t? Yet u self hatin, self loathin types r always only too willing to prosecute to the fullest & see hang every poor blk person out there.
Howard you are a coward and a dumb f*****g n****r
I hope they BAN you..
She would have done better if she had gone in an robbed a school. She would gotten less time or maybe just a slap on the wrist. what is the justice system telling us Black people? iI have seen people on television get less yers for murder. How about Ms. Casey who murdered her child, where is she? probaly basting in the sun with a umbrella in her drink. Every Black person should holler on this. by holler I mean write the courts an tell them how unfair this is!
The justice system is telling all people of all colors not to be drug dealers and criminals.
Paul,
The real big drug dealers, ( with the boats and planes) and users are white suburbanites. Visit any inner city drug market and see who the customers are.
So true! Whites flood blk communities every day buying & selling dope, but u wouldn’t know it by what’s reported n the lying white coporate controlled media where blks r regularly shown as the only drug users/dealers. When cops catch whites buying or selling dope n blk neighborhoods, they slap em on the wrist & send em on back to their lily white suburban communities w. just a warning. Its only blks & browns that they lock up indeterminately on drug charges n order to keep the prisons filled to capacity for white profit. Blks own no boats, planes or own any gun shops. Its whites who bring n the drugs en masse & profit hugely fr the sale of them n mainly blk communities. They own & manufacture all of the guns n this country & the world. Blk communities r flooded w. guns & dope n order to destabilize it & destroy it! This has been the caae since Nixon on w. his goal to silence & control blks after all the activism of The 60s. Then it really escalated n the 80s w. Reagan’s infamous “War On Drugs”, which was really a war on the blk community. Loads of crack cocaine & guns were emptied n2 blk communities then. This has been documented. This was the start of the mass incarceration of blks & browns that we now see. Whites always throw the rock then hide their hands. @Paul, there is no “justice system”, JUST US!
No it’s not! It’s telling you that’s the last thing you should be!
How did you possibly come to that conclusion?
@gorillaback:
BECAUSE IT’S THE TRUTH!!!
More yankees make meth in the burbs, than any drug!
You are in denial of your people’s blatant drug dealings!
These brothers on the street deal nickel and dimes, your people deal pounds and tons!!!
YOU KNOW THE DEAL…YOUR IN DENIAL LIKE THE REST OF THESE DOPE DEALING HONKEYS!!!
Go read my stats again!
@Derrick:
This cracker’s not in denial, he’s n LIE-al! He knows the truth, he jes resides on this site to spread bs propaganda & no amt of stats on ur part is gonna change that. His motives r purely nefarious & nothing more.
Paul, please stop commenting – your ignorance keeps showing. Now, let’s think about the justice system in ALL of its inequity. Do you think, for one minute, if her ‘drug’ problem was really that serious, they would have concentrated on just that? I mean, we’re talking drugs right. Obviously it wasn’t. They had to add stuff to get a strong enough sentence for sending her child to the wrong school district thing. Does it say what type of drug she was selling? Does it say how much she was selling?
I can bet you, the amount of drug she was using, (or selling) was too weak to convict her on.
Question. What is your stance on illegal aliens who send their kids to school in America? This sentence is over kill in the extreme and yet another example of the justice system in good ole America.
Sandy, you’re right. Write and get organized–ORGANIZATION–is power!
organize africa bish. it is f8cked up like u coming to america and thinking u should run things. go home and take that hutu with u.
people dont get it and white america after slavery realized they started immigration, blacks never earned nor were educated enough to earn. they had the skill for labor jobs so the white man had to start doing labor jobs, if any black person assisted in the invention or the improvement of a tool for work he/she got no recognition for patent etc. so its economics if you have 10 or 20 million people doing labor for 50 to 80 years of their lives for free then you would amass a enormous amount of wealth spread throughout various families, businesses etc. that are still funding this country today. whites have wealth not just in the tangible monetary aspect but in ownership of tangible historical items. look at the p**n shows and see how many black people own civil war or anything of value from the 1800′s. slavery didnt end until the 60′s when blacks started earning equal pay and then again not equal if youre not a yes man. the allowance of illegasl from mexico was done again to keep blacks out of the labor market, sure we wont pick fruits etc, but we can build, after all the first buildings were in egypt which is africa so blacks can build just as well if not better. everything in this country is not new it was done thousands of years before there was a white man or an american white man. so blacks must develop our own economies by buying black simple as that, the rich blacks should copy the indians (patel’s) start their own corp groups that start businesses. we need to do what the other ethnic groups are doing after all the concept is a black concept (african) anyway. we black americans need to do it to them as they do to us in the pocket book. another thing stop buying weaves, making asians rich.
I think she should have kept that youngster at home, introduced to taking and selling ‘craks’ and make one more useless citizen out of him. Instead staking so much to give him the best of education. I bet you that woman is into drugs for her son’s sake. If those s**t forks condemning their children to drug dealing and prostitution had a heart like this negro-mum, the world will be a better place. f**k justice.
She most likely had your attitude, and thats exactly why she is locked up!
You may well be next!
@Onesilverbac,Your mom is going to be the next one locked up.she’s into head job’s for METH..
STFU.
Slavery and Jim Crow never left us; they have been repackaged repeatedly. Prisoners are the new plantations.
Paul – The justice system is choosing a poor way of telling all the people not to be drug dealers and criminals by using all blacks as their examples. Get it?
I’m asking you and all the posters on this site, READ Michelle Alexander’s, The New Jim Crow. It is a powerful book that will inform the American people about the American justice system and how unfair it is to blacks and brown people and who the system is benefiting. It’s a must read!
I think she should have kept that youngster at home, introduced him to taking and selling ‘craks’ and make one more useless citizen out of him. Instead of staking so much to give him the best of education. I bet you that woman is into drugs for her son’s sake. If those s**t-folks condemning their children to drug dealing and prostitution had a heart like this negro-mum, the world will be a better place.
F**k justice.
Right after slavery ended white people became extremely angry & ruthless.
They retaliated on us for getting free. This time it’s because of Barack getting elected.
The more progress we make the worse it will be.
Sandy, you’re right. Write and get organized–ORGANIZATION–is power!
What can we do to HELP we should not sit by and just let this happen
Mr.President we need you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of these days Blacks will start taking responsibility for their own actions!
Most seem to be feeling sorry for her, is it because she got caught ripping off the city of Norwalk, or because she spends her time selling drugs? Either way she was wrong, neither was her only option it’s the one she picked her own path.
It’s not the white man as so many of you claim, it’s like our moral compass will not allow us to do the right thing! Then when it all goes wrong it’s so easy to rationalize or justify our predicament after getting caught by saying it’s that racist white man, if it wasn’t for them wanting to go back to the days of slavery this wouldn’t have happen to me!
Stop playing the blame game! If you were the jury in this case, and based upon just what you have read do you find this lady innocent of guilty?
Are you one of those who say a black person can not be guilty of any crime in America because of injustice blacks have endured!
Her drug offenses were petty and came after the school incident! I thought we are all entitled to better ourselves through education? Also, why did the arrest for drugs come AFTER the school incident?
This is disgusting and your attitude even more so. Like someone on this blog stated, a first year law student would have torn this B.S. case against her asunder.
Note to self. Connecticut is one f****d up state!
LOL LOL that’s what the crackhead leaders are saying onesilverbac.
Negroes are doomed if they dont take personal responsibility and stop listening to these black leader crackhead fools.
They are encouraging negroes to break laws and ACTUALLY FACILITATING THEIR DOWNFALL BY TELLING THEM IT IS RASCISM WHEN THEY GET SENT TO PRISON.
Rehab, would have been better for her. Why didn’t the system give her a chance to pay and help with organizing a place when her Rehab was up!!! I have seen so many people who were helped!!!! What was wrong with helping another. Let’s not get ahead of God, let him lead and we follow!!!
When will u perpetual warmongering crackers & criminals of the world, who it seems invented greed, corruption & devilry, ever take responsbility for ur vicious treacherous abhorrent actions? U have much to answer for w. ur multitude of murderous sins/crimes against all of humanity! U have absolutely no moral ground to stand on w. ur notorious history of murder, destruction & mayhem everywhere u step on the planet! Go clean up ur own filthy, putrid, disease infested house first (which should take u @ least another thousand yrs w. ur wicked depraved track record) before u even attempt to reprimand blk ppl for anything!
@TwoBitSnakeSliversBac:
When will u perpetual warmongering crackers & criminals of the world, who it seems invented greed, corruption & devilry, ever take responsbility for ur vicious treacherous abhorrent actions? U have much to answer for w. ur multitude of murderous sins/crimes against all of humanity! U have absolutely no moral ground to stand on w. ur notorious history of murder, destruction & mayhem everywhere u step on the planet! Go clean up ur own filthy, putrid, disease infested house first (which should take u @ least another thousand yrs w. ur wicked depraved track record) before u even attempt to reprimand blk ppl for anything!
This mother was charged with two petty drug crimes and stealing $15,000 in educational funds and now she’ll be locked up for 5 years at a cost $50,000 per year to taxpayers, over three times that $15,000 she was acussed of stealing and that’s per year so for 5 years that totals over $250,000. You do the math. That’s insane isn’t it? When in reality she needs to be in rehab for 2 years, 1 year per drug charge. The question I have is if she was homeless at the time she enrolled her son in a school out of the district she really had no physical address in the district at the time of the alleged crime? This is the kind of insane justice that people of color get in America’s corrupt system of legalized Jim Crow. The judge should be ashamed. Perverted justice. What we call our justice system is fact unjust, racist, unequal, oppressive and did I say unjust especially to people of color. Not saying she’s innocent, because there is not one of us here who is innocent but the punishment really does not fit the crime. But that’s what people of color have come to expect from our system of unequal justice… where three years ago the punishment for crack cocaine was ten times worse than hauling a boat load of cocaine and the Fair Sentencing Act just went into effect two years ago to erase the disparity. The system is still designed to give the perp with money and the right skin color the benefit of the doubt. Justice is supposed to be blind but in reality she’s a perverted peeping Thomasina who meted out her own brand of perverted justice to those who can’t afford proper representation. If you’re black don’t do the stupid crime because if you get caught you will do an inordinate amount of time.
Go tell your black head of the justice dept, Eric Holder
A first year law student thats worth their salt would’ve poked holes in these cases. The so called drug bust came after the school fiasco. Conn wasn’t pleased at all the attention Ms modowell received when she was arrested for wanting a better education for her son. They took her housing from her. She became homeless All of a sudden she’s arrested for dru gs and pimping. If conn open all the school books check addresses there will be more arrest white and black
This is beyond insane. I agree with one of the posters who said that this should have been thrown out of court. How is this justice and who does it benefit? Certainly not the child or society or even the perception of the legal system! Al Sharpton and other so-called negro leaders can protest a clown like Don Imus,but can allow something this to pass with-out raising h**l?! The NAACP should be all over this because one of their main concerns is educational equality. I say forget all of them! We have to do something. Send letters to President Obama, organize protests where she was setenced,contact the media,etc. I’m not letting this one pass by with-out raising some h**l!
A white teacher got a home two year sentence for giving a 17 yr old student a BJ in the parking lot. And she doesn’t have to register as a s*x offender! ! Plus after one year, she can petition the court to get the charge dropped to a misdemeanor! ! Another white lady here went home on a bracelet after killing her baby! None are rich. So what is the truth in sentencing? Look up( silver back) The sentencing project website and read their research on the matter. And that goes for u hardened black folks! Read the scientific study and get back at me and tell me is this not overkill based on race. READ THE WORKS FIRST! ! Its a great piece. ..become enlightened! ! Maat
Brother Imhotep:
Another cracker teacher was WATCHING her third grade cracker kids do a b******b IN CLASS! She was NOT fired!!!
These demonic devils, and bootlickin’ negroids don’t read when this Truth right under their noses.
THESE NEGROIDS AND caucasoids HAVE THE AUDACITY TO COME DOWN ON ME, YOU, AND THE OTHER REBELS ON THIS SITE!!!
I SAY FVCK ‘EM!!!
correction: do a b.l.o.w j.o.b.^
And oh silverbac and u hardened blacks, The Sentencing Project was created by whites and Jews to study the inequalities in punishment for similar crimes among various races. Peer reviewed and completely scientific! So Google it and read it! ! Ptah Ra
The sentence also includes four counts of drug possession and distribution. Possession of drugs with the intent to distribution, I think we forgot that part.
What’s more demonic…a cracker fe-male, who killed her baby, and got away with it (Casey Anthony), or this sister dealing drugs?
DO THE MATH!!!
By the way…you crackers have been killing us for 500 years, and still doing it! HOW MANY CRACKER WENT TO JAIL FOR THESE MURDERS?
I’M SICK OF YOU SERPENTS!!!
Where is Al and Jesse! Dr Boyce why didn’t you help with her defense?
Maybe its just me, but she was not sentenced for the school violation, she was sentenced for the frog conviction. Come on, we have stop with the victim mentality. She cannot go to jail for a school violation.
@khalil shakeel: Another fake cracker posing as a Black man
Black Mother Jailed For Sending Kids to White School District
“An Ohio mother of two was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on three years probation after sending her kids to a school district in which they did not live. Kelly Williams-Bolar was sentenced by Judge Patricia Cosgrove on Tuesday and will begin serving her sentence immediately.
The jury deliberated for seven hours and the courtroom was packed as the sentence was handed down. She was convicted on two counts of tampering with court records after registering her two girls as living with Williams Bolar’s father when they actually lived with her. The family lived in the housing projects in Akron, Ohio, and the father’s address was in nearby Copley Township.
Additionally, Williams-Bolar’s father, Edward L. Williams, was charged with a fourth-degree felony of grand theft, in which he and his daughter are charged with defrauding the school system for two years of educational services for their girls. The court determined that sending their children to the wrong school was worth $30,500 in tuition.
When I read about this case, a few thoughts went through my mind. First, it’s clear that the court is trying to make Kelly Williams-Bolar into an example. Even the judge in the case, Patricia Cosgrove, said that her sentence was appropriate ”so that others who think they might defraud the school system perhaps will think twice.”
Secondly, it’s interesting how courts find it convenient to make someone into an example when they happen to be poor and black. I’d love to see how they prosecute wealthy white women who commit the same offense. Oh, I forgot: Most wealthy white women don’t have to send their kids to the schools located near the projects.
Williams-Bolar sentenced
Third, I’m not sure why the court is treating this law-abiding mom like a thug who ran into a building with a shotgun and robbed the district of $30,000. Instead, they could simply subtract the amount it costs for her kids to go to the second school from the amount that would be spent for them to attend the first one. I’m sure the difference would still be substantial, since American educational apartheid dictates that schools in poorer neighborhoods are of significantly less quality than other schools. The racial divisions within American schools are nothing less than a blatant and consistent human rights violation and should certainly be treated as such.
A final interesting blow by Judge Cosgrove that reflects the experience of marginalized African Americans in the criminal justice system relates to Williams-Bolar’s quest to obtain a teaching degree. The single mother was in school studying to become a teacher so that she could create a better life for her girls. But that won’t happen for her family now, given that the judge has all but shut the door on her chance to fulfill her dream:
“Because of the felony conviction, you will not be allowed to get your teaching degree under Ohio law as it stands today,” the judge said.” The court’s taking into consideration that is also a punishment that you will have to serve.”
This case is a textbook example of everything that remains racially wrong with America’s educational, economic and criminal justice systems. Let’s start from the top: Had Ms. Williams-Bolar been white, she likely would never have been prosecuted for this crime in the first place (I’d love for them to show me a white woman in that area who’s gone to jail for the same crime). She also is statistically not as likely to be living in a housing project with the need to break an unjust law in order to create a better life for her daughters. Being black is also correlated with the fact that Williams-Bolar likely didn’t have the resources to hire the kinds of attorneys who could get her out of this mess (since the average black family’s wealth is roughly 1/10 that of white families). Finally, economic inequality is impactful here because that’s the reason that Williams-Bolar’s school district likely has fewer resources than the school she chose for her kids. In other words, black people have been historically robbed of our economic opportunities, leading to a two-tiered reality that we are then imprisoned for attempting to alleviate. That, my friends, is American Racism 101.
This case is a textbook example of how racial-inequality created during slavery and Jim Crow continues to cripple our nation to this day. There is no logical reason on earth why this mother of two should be dehumanized by going to jail and be left permanently marginalized from future economic and educational opportunities. Even if you believe in the laws that keep poor kids trapped in under-performing schools, the idea that this woman should be sent to jail for demanding educational access is simply ridiculous.
YOU BETTER START “READING” INSTEAD OF LOOKING AT TELL-A-LIE-VISION!!
BLACKS GO TO JAIL FOR LOOKING THE WRONG WAY!!!
WAKE UP!!!
couldn’t have said better i remember this Ohio case and being a black man i know all to well that if we look the wrong way we go directly to jail. just like this poor women who made the only choices she could under the circumstances. never mind the drug’s for a minute she is a citizen of this republic and was homeless so by being a citizen she has a right to a free public education just not in Norwalk Conn???? interesting to know. and whats another felony or two i mean she’s just another n****r caught up in the system….
YEAH THAT WAS BOLAR-WILLIAMS. i was just speaking on that. She did all that grandstanding and the whole time she was committing welfare fraud and section 8 fraud and foodstamp fraud. And her father hadn’t paid property taxes in 20+ years
Did they also find that she killed Jimmy Hoffa & is Jack The Ripper & The Boston Strangler all rolled up n2 one? Whenever the iniquities of this system is exposed, it comes after the person(s) that have exposed it & been victimized by it w. guns blazing. During Jim Crow this system often used the alleged rape of white women to justify the lynching of hundreds of blk men & as a reason to terrorize the blk community. The media has always played a wicked role n creating violent mass hysteria against blk ppl. The film Birth of A Nation gave birth to The KKK. It still uses media hysteria for that same purpose; to criminalize & margninaliz all blks, no matter what their status. That c**p u jes stated is jes that. Its probably something that came straight off the wire @ the racist Faux News! This is a tactic that never ceases.
Read this u chicken hearted Kneegroes and others http://www.sentencingproject.org/index.cfm
This situtation is trash.
They just gave some dead slaves who never were freed by lincoln some ole phony plaque.
But no mention of who still has and made all the money off of them doing all that free labor
Some things never cease, they just get worst in there persecutions. I was the first, back on April fools day 1985 to be arrested for stealing free public education, by sending my son to a school that they said was not in our district which was in Bloomfield, Connecticut.
She was wrong to sell drug…point blank. You can’t get around that. However, to get her son a chance at a better education, she should never be punished for that. What parent, knowing that the schools in her district are bad, wouldn’t do whatever they could to ensure their child had a good beginning at school? Be angry at the woman for selling drugs, not for putting her baby in a better school. Public schools survive on Federal funds, she took funds from one school and gave at another…she paid for that school. If the other school wants the funding, they need to improve on their curriculum so parents won’t have to be sneaky and place their children in better school districts . I know it is easier said than done, but at this moment, I have family doing the same thing and it is supported throughout the family. STOP KNOCKING THE WOMAN FOR THINKING ABOUT HER CHILD. BE ANGRY BECAUSE SHE WAS SELLING DRUGS.
The justice system is the drug trade if you unwind the complexities. Who owns the boats, the banks, the planes, the islands, the markets…those in charge and who govern directly and indirectly with their wealth. All you folks making comments, black, white, red, or yellow….get real! We are all Slaves to the wealthy and controlling parties. Racism in this country and the world is to keep the races divided and blinded on what’s really going on…classism…with a small global group of wealthy robbing the planet blind. A young black mother trying to get a decent education for her son is just another casuality of the system to keep the masses undereducated, divided and under control. Her biggest sin was being born poor and black in a society that defines the culture and controls the masses thru the media, music, etc…to maintain power and wealth at the top. No one writing here is any better off than this young girl. If you are white and have a drug addiction the system treats you with compassion and you are given treatment on taxpayer dollars. If you are black you are sent to prison and your family is torn apart as in slavery…hence the Black race will never rise from poverty because young child bearing men and women are castrated of their sexuality and dignitity in prison…again destroying the family structure. The ills of poverty and poor education for a segment of society is by design. You can’t maintain an upper class without an underclass. She is just another casualty to maintain the comforts of some. Mindset: WE ARE BETTER..and we don’t want that POOR child in our BETTER school with OUR BETTER children. That mindset more than the drugs is her biggest sin against WHITE society. DRUGS were the catalyst for the judicial decision. All of us are sinners saved by grace living in a world controled by Satan…under the governance of EVIL MEN and WOMEN in the halls of justice….all under the disguise of I’M BETTER than you. Don’t be fooled….we’re all being manipulated by the few who hold the wealth. Say your prayers and be grateful you were not set up at birth for the fate of this woman. Stop judging others…me today…you or yours tomorrow.
Denise thank you. I can assure you that you did not learn these things from manKIND. Bless you for listening. You have learned the first commandment well. “Hear”. Mark 12:29
a very true & well written piece!
Pleeeze! Everything is not just black and white as you try to make
it. You do wrong (and selling drugs is wrong) and you have to pay
the price. If she really cared about her child she would have found
another way instead of him seeing or sensing what she was doing. Kids
learn more from what they see as opposed to what you tell them. Too
bad another child will grow up w/o parents but she has no one to
blame but herself. God bless them all.
Keep your head in the sand until life happens to you or one of yours…and indeed it will. When it does, remember this young life (mother and son) whom you and others judge so harshly. You not only judge an sentence her, but also her son and generations to come. Time unfortunately is the big equalizer and we all see more clearly as life simply happens.
@James Johnson, first off, this is about equitable distribution of resources and competent and committed teachers/staff in all school districts i.e. poor, rich, white or black regardless of whether their parents participate and/or come to PTA meetings or not or whether or not the kids or good or bad or eat breakfast. Because believe me, there are some bad white/rich kids. However, all children should be on an equal footing when they step across that schoolhouse threshold. Then, parents don’t have to go to the measures in which this mother took and if the records are truly reviewed, there are probably a lot of whites who have done the same thing and the school will just receive “Sally or Jack” in and not whisper a word about it because they should not be denied a quality education because of their zip code. However, if it’s a child of color, the thinking is that you better take him or her right back to the school in their zip code because they don’t deserve a quality education because they are headed into the criminal justice system especially our black boys which brings me to my next point.
Secondly, you probably have no clue of a major thing that’s going on and it’s happening right before our eyes. There’s a thing called the prison industrial-complex that’s been and is brewing up to be an even greater money maker for greedy capitalists in which when prisons are full, all the crooks (capitalists) make money, a lot of it. So to ensure the “big payoff”, there’s this major effort being waged to privatized prisons in all states and one of the main players is a company called Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) in which they have proposed to state governors to allow them to take over the prisons in their state and that they would guarantee a somewhere between an 80% – 90% occupancy rate. I can’t remember the exact percentage at the moment but the point is. Guess who is going to make up the bulk of that guaranteed occupancy rate whether you are guilty or not or if the punishment fits the crime, BLACK PEOPLE and how are they going to do it, just like they’ve been doing it? But, they are going to ramp it up by 100% the giving out of these long sentences to people of color for ridiculous/non-violent offenses/not a threat to society cases like this in which the judges, prosecutors, juries (usually all white because people of color don’t like to do jury duty which is exactly how they want us to feel about jury duty and plus, we aren’t called and chosen that often) are all working together especially the judges and prosecutors because these prisons are good stock options for them (easy money). They just need to herd the cattle/slaves to the prisons and just make sure that the cattle/slaves don’t look like them and companies like CCA will do the rest.
As I would be willing to believe, the true circumstances of this case didn’t call for 12 years in prison and plus, judges usually have sentencing ranges that they can impose, minimums & maximums, and who do you think usually gets the minimum (whites) and the maximum (blacks/people of color)? So, for my brothers and sisters who thinks that if she did wrong she should be punished, that’s fine but there shouldn’t be a difference in the punishment depending on the color of one’s skin and whether you want to believe it or not, it happens every day and all day long. So, Mr. James Johnson, you better wake up and smell the coffee and look out as CCA, with the approval of state governors (the majority being white men) probably have plans in the works to build a prison in a neighborhood nearest you and if you are a black male Mr. Johnson, remember the occupancy rate quota that they have to fill and if you are a white male, you are probably okay. Unless you are of low socio-economic status, then, you should be a little concern because they will scoop some white males up to make it look legit. They just can’t be affluent/rich white males, as they can commit murder and get probation or just community service. And, if they are big time affluent i.e. a governors’ son, a Bush, a Kennedy, etc. they will not do any jail time even for murder and if they do, it won’t be long maybe 6 months to a year which will be reduced for good behavior and how much money was paid to the judges, prosecutors and their lawyers. But, this mother deserves 12 years for drugs and trying to send her son to a better school. Give me a break. I want to see the boat owners, plane owners, bank owners, etc. as Denise stated get the jail time not the user or small time drug dealer because if you cut off the source the plane owners, boat owners, etc. they will not have access to drugs to sell or use.
Justice SERVED, dealing drugs and stealing thousands, there’s nothing STRONG about her at all or being a EXAMPLE to be a BETTER person for her SON.. and if any others agree with what she did , they got a cell waiting for you too..she is the WORST example for her son..
If you read…try the Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Might help you better understand life and circumstances.
@Denise:
U can tell by the comments that this poster doesn’t read. The ignorance & shortsightedness of his/her stmts r quite apparent. Its unfortunate that so many don’t have a heart or a clue. They will have to learn at their own peril. We r all @ risk n this corrupt for profit capitalist/corporatist system that sees no humanity only dollars.
Okay she may be guilty about the drug charges. Was this her first, second or third conviction–was she a so-called career criminal? Sharpton, Jackson, Farakan and even the writer of this article Boyce Watkins, what are you prepared to do about this injustice? Nothing, thats what! It’s a d**n shame this woman will be taken away from her child. Theft of services? Wanting a decent education for her child? Makes me wonder just how big a drug dealer was she, running around trying to get her son an education?
Boyce Watkins is going for sensational titles, did he notice the part that says the woman was arrested for selling drugs.
Boyce Watkins is going for sensational titles, did he notice the part that says the woman was arrested for selling drugs. So she didn’t get any time for the drugs it was only the school.
Sensational titles, didn’t he write that the woman was arrested for selling drugs – was that suppose to be OK. She didn’t get any time for the drugs it was only for the school. Come on Boyce Watkins we expect better journalism.
Sensational titles, didn’t he write that the woman was arrested for selling drugs – was that supposed to be OK. She didn’t get any time for the drugs it was only for the school?
Come on Boyce Watkins we expect better journalism.
AS USUAL …THE GOVERNMENT IS THE BIGGEST DRUGS AND ARMS DEALERS IN THE WORLD….THUS THE GOVERNMENT PROVIDED HER ACCESS TO THE DRUGS..THEN TOOK AWAY HER HOUSING …THEN SENTENCED HER TO SERVE TIME….#SLAVERY2013
truth!!!!
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WHERE IS MICHELLE OBAMA,AL SHARPTON,TAVIS SMILEY,JOHN LEWIS,OPRAH WINFREY
When you are homeless, anyone who can help with your child and can help you send them to school is a blessing, no matter where they live. She just had a babysitter in a better neighborhood. Regardless of her lifestyle, she wanted better for her boy and should not be punished for that. Would she have been punished if he was in a bad school district? Or was he not good enough for the one he was in? Hmn
That is messed up but um where is the father? oh yeah as usual not being there.
If you actually pay attention, you’ll notice that it isn’t just blacks and browns. Whites where in those slums and in those jails before any of you got there. “They” have been hoarding the money from ALL of us, not just people “of color”. The reason racialism is perpetuated is precisely because if they can murder people of color, they don’t have to put them in jail next to whites. For years, this allowed them to pretend the poor whites weren’t already getting effectively the same treatment. Its more obvious now that they’re forced to treat us all the same. It’s nothing new, folks. They repossessed 3/4 of the farms in Penn. by the year 1790. That’s 14 years after the so-called Revolution. How many of those farms do you think were owned by blacks or browns? And there’s another reason it seems they’re picking on ya’ll: they’ve already milked nearly every drop out of the poor white people. Same for the Native Americans, left to rot on their worthless “reservations”. They’re not exploited, simply because they have nothing left to be stolen. In other words, wake up. It’s not about race, it’s only about the elite ruling class f*****g the rest of us to death.
It is unfair and disingenuous when you do not report the truth of reality. This of course makes you Dr. Watkins suspect in your reporting. I bring to your attention the facts of the Court record; You do recall that it was last month the 34-year-old Bridgeport woman pleaded guilty in a Norwalk court to charges of first-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit first-degree larceny for illegally enrolling her 6-year-old son in a Norwalk public school despite living there which was a totally different case from the one in which she was found guilty of drug trafficking to undercover police and received a sentence of 12 years suspended after the first five; and that is the real injustice if you use this story to highlight the disparity of sentencing. Like is she going to jail (besides for stupidity) for selling Crack or Cocaine? Was it Mary Jane compared to the King Pin who only gets 1 1/2 to 3 years for three Kilos. Maybe you consider the fact that she could have better used her time suing the Board for Better Education in the district where she did live.
this basically boils down to am i a citizen or am i not a citizen of this Republic. were talking about a public school here, o’k she sold drug’s being a homeless women with a child i listen to some of the black people that responded saying they don’t feel sorry for her there’s nothing worst than a uppity conservative black man or women!
so she sold drugs what would any of you have done under the same circumstances?? I’m just wondering! sometimes in this life the only choice you might have is to sell drug’s or to sell yourself, i wonder how many of you folks with your noses turned up would chose the latter?
they wanna call her a thief for enrolling her son in a public school out of her district,so that her young son might get a better education! are you kidding me? this is a citizenship question. the court that sentence her is so utterly full of s**t if she were white would they do this? i think not.
Go talk to your black president and black head of the justice dept. Ask them to help LOL
More money does not equal equity in education. Parents and other social institutions historically have always made the greatest difference. The government should never be looked to for guidance and help.God, family, and fraternity should always go first. I’ll teach my own children if I have too even if God blessess me with less Ill make due.
As far as the penalty for illegally sending her child to that school in Norwalk was indeed too high. However, her character was assassinated to the point that it was easy to justify sentencing her. The sentence was indeed too heavy for the crimes she committed, but she was indeed guilty of a few terrible crimes involving drugs. Norwalk went after her with a vengeance so that they would not appear to be as cruel as they were by charging her such a heavy fine for illegally registering her child in the Norwalk school system. They were indeed successful in finding out all of the wrong things she had done and were still doing.
Even blacks that protested for her felt somewhat like fools when they found out the type of person that she actually was. What she did with her child has been done by numerous people including white people and they were most likely just kicked out of the school but not sentenced to jail. There have been black people who were able to through relatives gain residence in a city with a great school system either by having that relative adopted the child or whatever extreme they needed to do in order to have that child be seen as a resident of that city.
Connecticut has taken some strong stands against urban centers from trying to register their children in their suburban school. They have hired personnel that will follow that child to see if they actually live in Trumbull or Norwalk. Stratford Connecticut has a resource officer that checks out each new resident of Stratford Connecticut that is either Black or Puerto Rican and is not a homeowner.
I live in the largest city in Connecticut which is Bridgeport. The school system is bad and it looks like it will be improving but as of now it has not improved very much. Suburbia is on the defense and understandably so. They are not the saviors of Bridgeport’s children that unfortunately attend inferior public schools. Let’s not forget, despite how much sympathy we feel for that woman, she is indeed a menace to the community that she lives in. She sells poison to people and some very well may be children. We will continue to look like fools when we publicly defend people without knowing anything about their background. A number of the suburban schools allow inner-city kids to attend their school, but for them to accept every child that wants to attend their school is outrageous.
The NAACP got mud on his face and so did all of the black people that were out there ranting and raving about how unjustly this woman was being treated. Indeed she was treated a bit harshly, but those white people looked for a way to clean up what they did and they found it very easy to find out what she was doing and use it to assassinate her character and they did a great job of doing it mainly because she was guilty as charged.
She should be locked up just for wearing that ratty, scraggly, cheap wig.
They didn’t lock your crackhead mammy up when she was in front of the Black House selling puzzy!!!
So, take your greasy azz back to your cave! You cave dwelling crackers are SICK!
Y’all ain’t nothing, but a bunch of cowards, and deep down inside your wicked spirit, (you don’t have a Soul), you know I speak Truth to Power!
IF THESE NEGROIDS DON’T SEE HOW DUMB AND STUPID YOU HONKEYS ARE, THEY NEED TO BURN BY THE WOODPILE WITH YOU DEMONIC devils!
This is why you heathens capitalize the words ‘satan and devil’ because those are your ‘gods’, and these xtian negroids are following you devil worshipping like sheep!!!
THIS IS WHY THEY HATE ON ME, TOO, BECAUSE YOU HAVE TRAINED THEM LIKE A DOG, TO FOLLOW YOU WORTHLESS BASTU.RDS!!!
Y’all know the REAL DERRICK when he speaks, and I HAVE JUST SPOKEN!!!
correction: …negroids are following you devil worshipping ‘niq.qers’ like sheep! ^
This proves that justice is truly blind. Now we know why the jails are filled with Blacks and Hispanics.
this is totally crazy, that judge must be white and oppressed a total redneck,
Watch this video and you will begin to understand what is happening.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7IB-e3SrH0
She had to do what she had to. So she was homeless, they shouldve understood dat. Now of days u have too do what u have to to keep ur head above water. The judge shoulve gave her a slap on the wrist. Her child had to go to school. I doesnt know what they was thinking about.
Wow, this is crazy however, what’s even crazier is some of your comments and point of view. My prayers are with you and your family baby…
They got a 2 for 1 deal. They will get govt funding for the child & will make money off of the mother in a more than likely private prison where she will work as slave labor. This is the new plantation system.
How much is this incarceration going to cost us. Are we safer because this “criminal” is off the street. She is not some big time dealer just trying to make it. We live in a sick society because of our “law abiding” citizens want to live in a society that want to see the prison industry grow but we do not have money for our children crying that there have to be cut backs because of the budget. Folks open your eyes stop believing in the BS that is being fed to you and just use common sense instead of living in stupid land. Give this woman her freedom and let her pay thru another means.
The article was written to get people angry. The sister sold drugs. I do not know what would make her get into this type of lifestyle. It is my understanding that drugs sellers make a lot of money. She could have put him into private school, The schools in the black neighborhood is not doing bad because of poor funding or poor unqualified teachers. the problem is lack of participation on the part of the parents. You will find many professionals who attended those same so called poor schools. There are people in all types of professions,doctors, teachers, politicians, lawyers, nurses, sanitation workers, construction workers, maids, and many more who attended those schools. Yes the way the is curriculum structured may put the students at a disadvantage. The high performing schools and privately schools are using the same textbook, so I think the method of delivery is the problem. Who knows why the judge gave her such a strict sentence, how do we know that such a sentence, may deterred her son from such a life. We have to stop making excuses and act like drug dealing is the only way for one to support one self. I do think that the sentence is too harsh; we do not choose what sentence one should get according to extenuating circumstances. I do not know the racial background of the courts or the make up of the jury. I can assume that he may have been of another race. We have to stopping using slavery for excusing behavior not deem proper; instead, we should take strength from our ancestors who were very strong, intelligent and wise if not we would not be here in spite of their very cruel and unbearable life. There is nothing we cannot overcome.
Integration is not the solution. If we as a people is truly segregated it means that we will have to get along with each other, we will have to look out for each other, we will be able to practice it takes a village to raise a child. What a wonderful community this would be if we were segregated and I mean that the poor, the middle class, the rich, and the wealthy were all living in the same neighborhoods, then there would be professional people for the children to look up too. We control the stored and the schools as other ethnics do. Our money would stay in the neighborhood a long time before it is transferred out. It doesn’t matter how many blacks become presidents, or mayors, or governor, the system is still the same which they have to live and work by. The Chinese, The Indians, and other ethnics do not have mayors, governors but still manages to control their communities. One of our biggest problems are the churches, those preachers and so called leaders who are not there for our benefit. They do not have insight, or foresight to think further into the future why should they, they have the masses waiting for some white man to come and save them where they will not have to work just walk around all day and do absolutely nothing. This is so crazy it is unbelievable. The very people who are oppressing the masses look like the same god the masses are waiting for to come and save them. go figure.
It was wrong. The Judge literally tried to kill two people with one bullet a mother and a child. May God have mercy on him, God will Judge ultimately and when we do wrong like this he will treat you like he had to do Pharoah. We cannot do anything about it, it’s so sad and heart wrenching, it hurts my heart but I have to believe that GOD will take care of both of them is my prayer.
This is a d**n Shame! These Crackers need to stop it! This is to keep a Black person in their Failing Schools in the Hood! Out of sight & out of Mind!d**n Devils
Derrick is on Deck with His Comments as always! Our People are Asleep & Mentally Dead so they are Like the Whiteman’s Dog! Mr Muhammad taught us to Despise Drugs Dope because it Kills our People whom He was trying to Save! The Whole 45 Million! When you study the Dope Game White Devils in the US Government sell more Dope then a little bit & they always got some Braindead Negro to be Scapegoated like Nicky Barnes,Frank Lucas or Freeway Rick again making us look like the a***s of the World Stereotypical in form! When in Reality it’s always a Cracker at the top of the Dope Pyramid! So to you Blacknecks stop Blaming other Blacks for Selling Dope when they are the Victims! At the same time Blackman stop playing the Devil’s Game for a slice of his pie! We need to get BlackRiders in every city if we catch you doing Destructive BS in the Hood it’s over! We Blasting off on you,We love you Brother but you gotta go! It’s not one Negro more important then the Whole! Stop being Lazy Lazarus!
And OH yeah Derrick is right about Rev.HeadCheese he working with these Enemies of our People Preaching Watered Down Religion! If you spit spit it Real like the Minister!
This is dominance. As long as Black people are divided and unable to respond as a group, this type of oppressive racism will continue. In Connecticut, there is not a serious political or social organization present to stop this type of nonsense. The Black citizens are separated and fighting amongst themselves. The preachers and the politicians have sold out. The rich blacks are indifferent and brainwashed.
So, black people contribute to their plight. Plus, the fact that there is a drug issue only adds to the problem. She is lost. Blacks are not unified, so that creates a perfect breeding ground for the status quo to dominate and discriminate without having to be concerned with a response from the victims.
Black people should start concerning themselves with God and Black people. We are too concerned about other groups. Other groups don’t care about us. We must hold our representatives and ourselves responsible. And we must act now……
Sorry But her Punishment does not fit her crime, what in the h**l wrong with these Judges? Guess they are not Human, and they dont have no family, Lord have Mercy on Miss Mcdowell.
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