I don't have much to say today but this link says it all
http://www.realcities.com/multimedia/miami/news/archive/deadteens/index.html
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Worst High School Graduation Rates
Worst High School Graduation Rates
Of the Nation's 50 Largest Districts
School District/Graduation Rate (percent)
Detroit 21.7
Baltimore 38.5
New York City 38.9
Milwaukee 43.1
Cleveland 43.8
Los Angeles 44.2
Miami-Dade County, Fla. 45.3
Dallas 46.3
Pinellas County, Fla. 46.5
Denver 46.8
Of the Nation's 50 Largest Districts
School District/Graduation Rate (percent)
Detroit 21.7
Baltimore 38.5
New York City 38.9
Milwaukee 43.1
Cleveland 43.8
Los Angeles 44.2
Miami-Dade County, Fla. 45.3
Dallas 46.3
Pinellas County, Fla. 46.5
Denver 46.8
Celebrities as Role Models?
People say sports figures, actors and actresses and singers are supposed to be role models. Really? Says who? It stuns me when a parent gets upset over when a celebrity does wrong and they say "I thought s/he was supposed to be a role model." These celebrities doesn't owe your child or children a thing. The celebrities jobs are to entertain and they get paid.
The parents are the one who brought the child into the world and it is their job to raise them the way they want. It is the parent's responsibility. The parents are supposed to be the role models for their children. The mother, father, grandmother, grandfather and a host of other family members are supposed to be role models. If you think the likes of Snoop Dogg, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, Paris Hilton and Beyonce are supposed to be role models for your children then something is wrong with you.
The parents are the one who brought the child into the world and it is their job to raise them the way they want. It is the parent's responsibility. The parents are supposed to be the role models for their children. The mother, father, grandmother, grandfather and a host of other family members are supposed to be role models. If you think the likes of Snoop Dogg, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, Paris Hilton and Beyonce are supposed to be role models for your children then something is wrong with you.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Relationships of Teens and Lack of Respect
What happened to the black family? Back in the day, people got married for love and not convienience. Today you'd be lucky to find a couple who have been married for more than 5 years. It's hard to imagine what is going to happen to the children when they grow up. They barely have respect for themselves, so of course they don't have respect for others. Girls think they have to look like video hoes with European features. Boys think they have to be thugs, drug dealers, or just plain low-life nobodies and that is supposed to be cool and acceptable. How do you get these kids or blacks in general to realize that they are worth so much more than that?
To be honest, some black women worry too much about black men being with white women or women of another race period. If he isn't someone you would date, then why do you care? Also, women spend too much time fighting over someone that doesn't want them. It became the thing to do to let guys "run a train" or have multiple lovers without protection. These are the same girls who get mad when someone does call them out their name. They are ready to fight. The way these girls dress these days make me cringe and it is horrible that their mothers are the ones paying for these things.
When it come to the boys, it is cool to have all these girls fawning over them and chasing them. When they get burned, they want to punish every woman on the earth by spreading it to as many that are willing to lay with them and not tell them that they have an STD. Boys lie about how sexually active they are because they are afraid of being called gay or a punk or whatever other name is out there. Again lack of respect for self. Why is it so great to have females stalking you? When did that become cool? Then the guys sit around and talk about the girl and what she did, and tell them to get at her or whatever, and she is dumb enough to let it happen. She thinks it's cute.
I went to get Chinese food one night and there were these four guys that were still in high school. They were sitting there eating and actually not cursing for a change. Then this girl they go to school with walks through the door, and one says that she is so cute that she can have his baby. When did that become sexy? When did that become attractive? What happened to asking someone on a date, and being shy and nervous when you meet the parents for the first time? What happened to sitting up on the phone all night talking? The nights when you were talking and feel asleep on the phone? I'm not saying these things didn't happen way back when, but it wasn't out of control and running rampant. Like mentioned before, you felt ashamed when more than just the person you were with knew you were having sex. You never wanted your parents to know. Now days, you would be lucky to find out if the parents care. Then these are the kids having children as teens, and the cycle repeats and gets worse.
To be honest, some black women worry too much about black men being with white women or women of another race period. If he isn't someone you would date, then why do you care? Also, women spend too much time fighting over someone that doesn't want them. It became the thing to do to let guys "run a train" or have multiple lovers without protection. These are the same girls who get mad when someone does call them out their name. They are ready to fight. The way these girls dress these days make me cringe and it is horrible that their mothers are the ones paying for these things.
When it come to the boys, it is cool to have all these girls fawning over them and chasing them. When they get burned, they want to punish every woman on the earth by spreading it to as many that are willing to lay with them and not tell them that they have an STD. Boys lie about how sexually active they are because they are afraid of being called gay or a punk or whatever other name is out there. Again lack of respect for self. Why is it so great to have females stalking you? When did that become cool? Then the guys sit around and talk about the girl and what she did, and tell them to get at her or whatever, and she is dumb enough to let it happen. She thinks it's cute.
I went to get Chinese food one night and there were these four guys that were still in high school. They were sitting there eating and actually not cursing for a change. Then this girl they go to school with walks through the door, and one says that she is so cute that she can have his baby. When did that become sexy? When did that become attractive? What happened to asking someone on a date, and being shy and nervous when you meet the parents for the first time? What happened to sitting up on the phone all night talking? The nights when you were talking and feel asleep on the phone? I'm not saying these things didn't happen way back when, but it wasn't out of control and running rampant. Like mentioned before, you felt ashamed when more than just the person you were with knew you were having sex. You never wanted your parents to know. Now days, you would be lucky to find out if the parents care. Then these are the kids having children as teens, and the cycle repeats and gets worse.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Bill Cosby: Self Hateration or Self Motivation?
Can't Blame White People
They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English.
I can't even talk the way these people talk:
Why you ain't,
Where you is,
What he drive,
Where he stay,
Where he work,
Who you be...
And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.
And then I heard the father talk.
Everybody knows it's important to speak English...
except these knuckleheads.
Mushmouth is what they speak!
You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.
In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.
People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education
and now we've got these knuckleheads throwing that all away.
The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.
These people are not parenting.
They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what?
And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.
I am talking about these people who cry
when their son is standing there in an orange suit.
Where were you when he was 2?
Where were you when he was 12?
Where were you when he was 18?
And, how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?
And where is the father?
Or who is his father?
People putting their clothes on backward:
Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?
People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack . .
isn't that a sign of something?
They're walking around with their nasty underwear showing,
and holding onto their pants to keep them from falling to the ground!
Or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up?
Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up to her panty line
and got all types of needle piercings going through her body?
What part of Africa did this come from?
We are not Africans.
Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa.
With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap, and all of them are in jail.
Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.
We have got to take the neighborhood back.
People used to be ashamed.
Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' --
or men or whatever you call them now.
We have millionaire football players who cannot read.
We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs.
We as black folks have to do a better job.
Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids saying...
you are hurting us.
We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.
We cannot blame the white people any longer.
It is not for media or anyone of this time anymore to say whether I'm right or wrong.
It is time, ladies and gentlemen, to look at the numbers.
Fifty percent of our children are dropping out of high school.
Sixty percent of the incarcerated males happen to be illiterate.
There's a correlation.
Tell the media to stop asking me what I think
about people who don't believe what I'm saying
or feel that I'm too harsh
or feel that I'm just running my mouth because I'm old.
Seventy percent of the teenagers pregnant happen to be African American girls.
Don't ask me to soften my message.
-Bill Cosby
They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English.
I can't even talk the way these people talk:
Why you ain't,
Where you is,
What he drive,
Where he stay,
Where he work,
Who you be...
And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.
And then I heard the father talk.
Everybody knows it's important to speak English...
except these knuckleheads.
Mushmouth is what they speak!
You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.
In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.
People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education
and now we've got these knuckleheads throwing that all away.
The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.
These people are not parenting.
They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what?
And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.
I am talking about these people who cry
when their son is standing there in an orange suit.
Where were you when he was 2?
Where were you when he was 12?
Where were you when he was 18?
And, how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?
And where is the father?
Or who is his father?
People putting their clothes on backward:
Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?
People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack . .
isn't that a sign of something?
They're walking around with their nasty underwear showing,
and holding onto their pants to keep them from falling to the ground!
Or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up?
Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up to her panty line
and got all types of needle piercings going through her body?
What part of Africa did this come from?
We are not Africans.
Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa.
With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap, and all of them are in jail.
Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.
We have got to take the neighborhood back.
People used to be ashamed.
Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' --
or men or whatever you call them now.
We have millionaire football players who cannot read.
We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs.
We as black folks have to do a better job.
Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids saying...
you are hurting us.
We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.
We cannot blame the white people any longer.
It is not for media or anyone of this time anymore to say whether I'm right or wrong.
It is time, ladies and gentlemen, to look at the numbers.
Fifty percent of our children are dropping out of high school.
Sixty percent of the incarcerated males happen to be illiterate.
There's a correlation.
Tell the media to stop asking me what I think
about people who don't believe what I'm saying
or feel that I'm too harsh
or feel that I'm just running my mouth because I'm old.
Seventy percent of the teenagers pregnant happen to be African American girls.
Don't ask me to soften my message.
-Bill Cosby
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Disrespectful Teens
I just have a small post this time. Remember back in the day when you played in the streets, whether it was hopscotch, basketball or football, or double dutch, whenever you saw a vehicle coming your way, you quickly and politely moved out of the way? These days, these bad asses expect you to wait for them to finish before they move or dare you to hit them. One of these days, I'm going to take them up on their dare!!
Ludacris and Jamie Foxx, the hypocrites
So I was with Ludacris when he was bashing Bill O'Reilly because at the time, I felt Bill had other issues to go against rather than Ludacris endorsing Pepsi. Sure, Luda has objectionable material on his album, as most rappers do (and that's another blog in itself) but hey, Ozzy was spokesperson and he worshiped the devil and bit the head off of a bat. But now, after he's repeatedly called out Oprah Winfrey for not having him on her show (it's her show, Chris, get over it. She can have whomever she chooses. And why would she have a man on her show whose lyrics degrade our African-American women?), and even called her out at the Grammy's, along with O'Reilly, our esteemed rapper is photographed with none other than... racist Paris Hilton!!!
Luda, give me a break, man. People claim you've grown on this album. I'm sure that's true. You have to shake your money maker to grow, don't you? You continue to call out Oprah because she won't have you on her show. Why should she have you on her show? What exactly have you done to be on her show? When she has other celebs on, it's to promote a film or recording they've done. And those recording stars she has on there don't exactly have bitches, hoes, niggas etc on their albums, do they? So why would she promote that? When she has people with their problems, she is there to get them the help they need and possibly deserve.
But you lost any points by posing and performing for Paris Hilton, brother. You're posing and performing with a white girl who sees you as nothing but a nigger. She's worst than Bill O'Reilly but you can't see that, can you? Get a clue, get a clue.
Hold on. I have to edit. Apparently, Jamie Foxx was there, too. He called out Michael "Seinfeld's Kramer" Richards racist rant and wanted to do some bodily damage to him but he also hangs out with racist Paris Hilton. Man, you two need to get a clue, for real, for real.
Luda, give me a break, man. People claim you've grown on this album. I'm sure that's true. You have to shake your money maker to grow, don't you? You continue to call out Oprah because she won't have you on her show. Why should she have you on her show? What exactly have you done to be on her show? When she has other celebs on, it's to promote a film or recording they've done. And those recording stars she has on there don't exactly have bitches, hoes, niggas etc on their albums, do they? So why would she promote that? When she has people with their problems, she is there to get them the help they need and possibly deserve.
But you lost any points by posing and performing for Paris Hilton, brother. You're posing and performing with a white girl who sees you as nothing but a nigger. She's worst than Bill O'Reilly but you can't see that, can you? Get a clue, get a clue.
Hold on. I have to edit. Apparently, Jamie Foxx was there, too. He called out Michael "Seinfeld's Kramer" Richards racist rant and wanted to do some bodily damage to him but he also hangs out with racist Paris Hilton. Man, you two need to get a clue, for real, for real.
Teens Need A Curfew
Because of the killings of juveniles in Miami-Dade County, Florida, there is talk of bringing back a curfew. I don't think that is such a bad idea. These parents don't give a damn about their children, at least the law is doing something, although in the 'hood, the law is looked at as the enemy. To be honest, because of how the law has behaved towards those areas in the past, I can understand the attitude towards the law but not all police officers are grimy.
If we implement a curfew, that'll curb a lot of these teens from being out in the streets even considering being up to no good. If they are caught, then the punishment should be severe, or at least counsel them, to see why they aren't home, to see if their home life is appropriate for them. If it isn't, they need to figure something out. With all the budget cuts from our government, the money for this war could be used to bring back music into schools, could be used for arts and crafts, put toward putting underprivileged youth into sports. The money could be used to entice the youth from joining gangs or doing other things that would cause and bring them mischief. When are we, though, as parents, as adults, going to be the responsible ones and take back our youth? We need to be the ones to start it.
If we implement a curfew, that'll curb a lot of these teens from being out in the streets even considering being up to no good. If they are caught, then the punishment should be severe, or at least counsel them, to see why they aren't home, to see if their home life is appropriate for them. If it isn't, they need to figure something out. With all the budget cuts from our government, the money for this war could be used to bring back music into schools, could be used for arts and crafts, put toward putting underprivileged youth into sports. The money could be used to entice the youth from joining gangs or doing other things that would cause and bring them mischief. When are we, though, as parents, as adults, going to be the responsible ones and take back our youth? We need to be the ones to start it.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Justice for 14 year old dumped in garbage
Thank you dear Lord. You brought justice for Rod Williams. He may not have been an angel but he was 14 and I feel, a lost little lamb. His mom died of AIDS, he was shifting between aunt, dad and older sister, as if no one wanted him. His mom died when he was 7. Not saying he had a good life before she died but mothers are the ones who we bond with the most and dads are there for us to grow to be a better man and for male guidance but his mom dying probably had a lot to do with how he was before his death.
Anyway. Four of Rod's friends were arrested in connection with his murder. Apparently, they shot him and buried the body so they wouldn't get in trouble. The ages of the shooters were 13-16. One of the mothers saw the blood and they lied and said they were chased and beaten up. She believed it. The killers stories are different but either way, they won't have a life to live. That's the worst part of it.
Why is the mother of one of the teen boys accused of killing Rod Williams defending him? She said he was scared. Fine. But don't sit there and say he had nothing to do with it. If she knew the law, then she would know that because he helped clean up the blood, he's an accessory.
Anyway. Four of Rod's friends were arrested in connection with his murder. Apparently, they shot him and buried the body so they wouldn't get in trouble. The ages of the shooters were 13-16. One of the mothers saw the blood and they lied and said they were chased and beaten up. She believed it. The killers stories are different but either way, they won't have a life to live. That's the worst part of it.
Why is the mother of one of the teen boys accused of killing Rod Williams defending him? She said he was scared. Fine. But don't sit there and say he had nothing to do with it. If she knew the law, then she would know that because he helped clean up the blood, he's an accessory.
Maury Povich Syndrome
Yeah, you know what I'm referring to: these hot ass idiots who go on his show not knowing who they've slept with and putting their children in a precarious predicament. Some may say that these women suffered as children, never received help for it and their problems are now manifesting itself as adults. That could be the case, but not all the women on that show and who do this disgusting behavior have suffered abuses as children. They get on here and act like it's cute. Call the guys names, call the women names but yet you slept with each other. Then they pass this down to their children, who come out with nasty attitudes just like their parents. They are uneducated, they have no manners. They have no hope for the future and do not have an idea of what they want to be. When we were growing up in the 80s, we said we wanted to be police officers, doctors, lawyers, firefighters. Now, what do these children say they want to be? "I don't care." And that's a sad state of affairs. Where are the mentors at? These parents aren't doing jack shit.
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Parent's Association Hell
One of the many things that people may not know about me is that I am on the executive board of not one but two Parent's Associations. I am actually the President of the P.A. at one of the schools. From day one it has been an uphill battle to bring about any type of positive change at the school. I went into this with good intentions. To boost parent involvement. To have more events for the students. To force the schools to hear the demands of parent's with regard to their children's education. Instead I have been involved in so many arguments and political turf wars that at times I just want to give up. The principal at the school in question has a good heart. I do believe he really cares about the children. But he is saddled with a ghetto, blase administration who would rather work against the parents instead of partnering with the parents for the greater good. It really saddens me that there is such a marked difference in the P.A. at my 15 year olds school in Manhattan than my 13 year olds school in Brooklyn. There is significantly less involvement from the parents at the BK school. The only time I hear from parents is when they want to complain about something or other. They offer little or no help to the exec board who works tirelessly on their behalf. It is a real thankless job. I often wonder, what is the point? Nothing, absolutely nothing has been accomplished since October when I was elected to this position. There has been zero graduation planning. One fundraiser that is still going on because so many children were absent on picture day that we had to do a makeup. Which is a whole other issue. The Valentines dance that I suggested crashed and burned because, even though we decided to have the dance in December, even two months is not enough lead time for this disorganized school to pull themselves together to host a successful event. I can go on and on, but I will say this:
If the school is this all over the place when it comes to the PARENTS, I can't even imagine how they are educating our children. The teachers have the glazed over look of zombies every time I see them. I think they just show up to collect a check. The nasty neck swiveling demeanor of the office staff makes me want to lose every professional bone in my body and stoop down to their level of ghetto, which I know I can't do. The laws and regulations handed down from on high by the chancellor and mayor are self serving and do not protect the rights of the parents or ensure that our children are receiving a quality education.
This is why I have decided to put my children into private school from here on out.
It's sad when you pay out the behind in taxes, but can't use the services that your taxes pay for because they are gawdawful. It really scares me to think of how horrible things will be next year when there isn't a President there to fight the good fight. But I am tired of being the lone voice of sanity, struggling to keep my composure before my true colors surface. Me draping up some chick in the main office would not benefit my kid in the least. Which is why I grit my teeth, try to be the bigger person and try to FORCE the principal to see his staff for what they are- a bunch of uneducated, just there to get a check, ghetto, difficult to work with, needs to be fired, seat warming losers who don't need to be any where near any child but their own and who damn sure don't need to be in a learning institution. Black and brown people, let's stop settling for half assed education for our kids. Education is the only way for our children to succeed other than throwing a ball or cutting an album and the former is more realistic. Demand more for our children or take them to someplace else where subpar isn't the standard.
Saint Anthony's, here I come!
If the school is this all over the place when it comes to the PARENTS, I can't even imagine how they are educating our children. The teachers have the glazed over look of zombies every time I see them. I think they just show up to collect a check. The nasty neck swiveling demeanor of the office staff makes me want to lose every professional bone in my body and stoop down to their level of ghetto, which I know I can't do. The laws and regulations handed down from on high by the chancellor and mayor are self serving and do not protect the rights of the parents or ensure that our children are receiving a quality education.
This is why I have decided to put my children into private school from here on out.
It's sad when you pay out the behind in taxes, but can't use the services that your taxes pay for because they are gawdawful. It really scares me to think of how horrible things will be next year when there isn't a President there to fight the good fight. But I am tired of being the lone voice of sanity, struggling to keep my composure before my true colors surface. Me draping up some chick in the main office would not benefit my kid in the least. Which is why I grit my teeth, try to be the bigger person and try to FORCE the principal to see his staff for what they are- a bunch of uneducated, just there to get a check, ghetto, difficult to work with, needs to be fired, seat warming losers who don't need to be any where near any child but their own and who damn sure don't need to be in a learning institution. Black and brown people, let's stop settling for half assed education for our kids. Education is the only way for our children to succeed other than throwing a ball or cutting an album and the former is more realistic. Demand more for our children or take them to someplace else where subpar isn't the standard.
Saint Anthony's, here I come!
Monday, February 12, 2007
VALUING ENTERTAINMENT OVER LIFE
It boggles my mind how this generation tends to fight for the cause of an entertainer, and debate on whether or not people are "hatin" on said artist or if that artist has a higher range than another but when it comes to matters affecting them, they are nowhere to be found and come with that lame "I don't care" atittude. The fact that global warming will be affecting them, the fact that the war will consume them, the fact that they continue to die on a regular and consistent basis. It doesn't matter to them. Even when one of their own is killed, it's just... whatever. Will they have to be kidnapped and programmed in order to wake up and give a damn?
Black male, 14 years old, found in dumpster
Another day, another young black male murdered. This time, a 14 year old 8th grader in Miami, FL. Rod K. Williams attended Brownsville Middle School in the Brown Sub area of Miami, a smaller part of the Liberty City community. You can't call Liberty City a suburb but it does have its nice areas but Brown Sub isn't one of them. Rod began hanging with the wrong crowd in the Little Haiti section of Miami, a lot of older cats and his family didn't approve but you know once a teen, especially a boy hits puberty, then they start smelling themselves as if they are grown. Rod would go missing for days so this last time his family realized he went missing, they didn't think anything of it. This would be the last time he went missing as he was found dumped, his decomposing body rotting in a trash bin in Little Haiti. Police aren't stating the cause of death. His death brings up a bigger issue: why are there no role models for our youths, especially our males? Granted, Rod, had a dad but, for the most part, he was living with his aunt. His mom died in 2000 from complications of AIDS. Because there was no stable male influence in his life, he ran with the wrong crowd. Today's male youth: are all their heroes thugged out entertainers and athletes and local drug boys and they try so hard to emulate them whatever happened to the doctors, lawyers and police officers, firefighters that were there when I was growing up? We need to have more males in the white collar field to show our young boys they CAN be something other than drug boys. Look ahead to tomorrow, not just for today. Look at the Robert Johnsons, the Magic Johnsons. Check out Black Enterprises magazine for our heroes. Damn, this is getting too damn ridiculous.
Saturday, February 10, 2007
We Accept Trash, Garbage and Mediocrity: Black people wake the f*&k up!
It amazes me how our black people have degraded themselves. Where it was once considered taboo to have a child out of wedlock, it's now common place; where it was once considered a good thing that a village helped raise a child, it's now frowned upon if anyone else disciplines a child other than the parent (and goodness help us if the parent then doesn't discipline that child). What has happened? Has our standards sunk so low that we will never see above sea level? Walking around, seeing grown ass men, in their 20s, 30s, and goodness sakes, 40s and 50s with their pants sagging below their asses like their getting ready to get fucked in prison? And then you have lil boys, from ages 5 on up doing the same thing. I disagreed with Bill Cosby on a lot of what he was saying but some of it is true. There is no reason why we continue to put emphasis on how expensive our clothing is, and how our vehicle looks and how we spend so much money making that vehicle, even if it's a clunker, look like it's 30k with rims. And why do we buy our children vehicles with rims? When are we going to focus on educating our children and ourselves to make sure we don't end up in situations where we have to struggle?
We are so caught up in this fake thuggery, that if a man isn't a thug, then he isn't a man. WTF kind of bullshit is that? And our women are just getting looser by the minute, my fellow man is getting more vile a minute (since when is it okay to just urinate out in the open instead of finding a damn bathroom?)
Our women are battling each other over some dude who just sees them as something to slide up in; nobody takes responsibility if a child is brought into the world. That's when names are called and it's like, you're calling her a hoe; you're calling him no good and a scrub who still lives with his mother but didn't you know that when you were fucking each other? Since when is it acceptable to call someone your baby's mother or your baby's father and not your husband, your wife, the love of your life, your boyfriend or your girlfriend? I see why we're going to hell in a handbag.
We are so caught up in this fake thuggery, that if a man isn't a thug, then he isn't a man. WTF kind of bullshit is that? And our women are just getting looser by the minute, my fellow man is getting more vile a minute (since when is it okay to just urinate out in the open instead of finding a damn bathroom?)
Our women are battling each other over some dude who just sees them as something to slide up in; nobody takes responsibility if a child is brought into the world. That's when names are called and it's like, you're calling her a hoe; you're calling him no good and a scrub who still lives with his mother but didn't you know that when you were fucking each other? Since when is it acceptable to call someone your baby's mother or your baby's father and not your husband, your wife, the love of your life, your boyfriend or your girlfriend? I see why we're going to hell in a handbag.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
THE CHILDREN ARE OUT FUTURE? IF SO, OH BOY...
My vehicle needed maintenance so I had the unfortunate task of catching public transportation. That, in most cities, would be great but in Miami...but I digress. I walked from my stop to home and the middle school/junior high, however they are called today is behind it. So as I'm walking, there are a group of teens, maybe 8th graders, and they congested the entire sidewalk. Now most people would walk on one side to allow the path going the opposite way to clearly get through. No, not this crowd. Most folk would probably wait to allow this to subside. No, not me. They wouldn't move and neither would I so finally, some of them just gave way and were leaned over to the fence since I had my backpack on me.
What is up with these little juveniles thinking they can have their way? What happened to the days when, though teens rebelled, they still had respect for adults? I was a teenager just ten years ago. Granted, the youth in my time, we rebelled but for the most part, we still had to respect our elders. Just ten years later, that respect has melted away. That same school is where my nephew once attended. Because of the problems at that school, as with all black schools, we took him out but on the day we disenrolled (yeah, it's not a word, but hey lol) him from said school, there was a girl who was giving lip to one of the male administrators and instead of putting his foot down, he decided he wanted to laugh and joke with the girl. What kind of bullish is that? And that same girl, as she was walking to class, was giving lip to a female security guard who was advising her to get to class. The girl turned around and in her very eloquent way, told the security guard --who really wasn't, just the secretary doing someone else's job-- "Lady, why is you still talking?" I was appalled by two things: the teen's audacity to speak to an adult, a school employee as such and, "lady, why IS you still talking"? What exactly is going on with our schools that our kids cannot speak grammatically correct? And they are not ashamed that they cannot speak correctly.
What pisses me off more with this batch of youth is that they have the "I don't care" attitude when it comes to everything that will benefit them in the long run but if you argue with them over a souped up ride, or which entertainer is the best, or about some lame boy or girl cheating on them, chances are they'll end up dead by a gun shot or a knife wound. And for the most part, their parents aren't even around because they are working, two or maybe three jobs to support them or because of a single parent family household. Or in a lot of cases, these parents just don't give a f*ck. But they'll be ready to swing if their child commits a crime and claim they are innocent, no matter what the evidence may suggest.
And what about these teenaged parents? They are getting younger and younger. I was on the bus and heard a 7th grader talking about how a fellow classmate was pregnant... and may have AIDS. Correct me if I'm wrong but in 7th grade, the average age is what, 12? So when you're 24, your child will be 12. Wow. And where are her parents? It's sad that now parents aren't allowed to know when their child is taking AIDS test or about their sexual history but a parent can be found in neglect for not giving proper care for their sickly child. Our government is a wonderful thing, huh. I looked in the newspaper this morning to read the front page, then I read the local section, then sports, then the business section. On the front page of the sports, they had the high school football players who signed with national colleges to further their sports careers. This one young man, held a baby in his arms, about 13 mos-18 mos old. The boy has to be 17 or 18. But I assumed maybe it was his little brother or perhaps a nephew.
Why am I so naive? This college bound young man was actually holding his son. Where are his parents, or where were they to advise him on having sex, and unprotected sex at that? Back in my day, a child was shamed for having premarital sex and if a baby was borne of this, then that was double the shame. Like Fantasia said, it's like a badge of honor now. No it is not. When will we get out of the mentality that having a child as a child don't make you cute, nice, or any adjective close to those words? Me, I know I have goals in life and nothing will prevent me from achieving those goals. My parents made sure that I was properly educated in school and at home. They made sure to train me to have an open mind and to look at the broader picture in life. That is sorely missing with today's parents and their children. Sadly, it'll only get worse because if you tell these parents about their children, they get offended, want to curse you out and more often than not, the child will curse you out, too, as they are cussing like sailors these days IN FRONT OF THEIR PARENTS, no less. The fact that we have so many parents who had children when they were teens have given way to today's youth feeling like their parents are their friends and not the authoratative figures, which gives these little monsters leeway to talk to their teachers and administrators the way they do because they talk to their parents that way. And then, when you do chastise, or better yet, beat them, Child Protective Services are called for child abuse. This is another reason why these ingrates get away with so much because rights have been removed from the parents. What happened in the last couple of decades? I'm fed up with this.
What is up with these little juveniles thinking they can have their way? What happened to the days when, though teens rebelled, they still had respect for adults? I was a teenager just ten years ago. Granted, the youth in my time, we rebelled but for the most part, we still had to respect our elders. Just ten years later, that respect has melted away. That same school is where my nephew once attended. Because of the problems at that school, as with all black schools, we took him out but on the day we disenrolled (yeah, it's not a word, but hey lol) him from said school, there was a girl who was giving lip to one of the male administrators and instead of putting his foot down, he decided he wanted to laugh and joke with the girl. What kind of bullish is that? And that same girl, as she was walking to class, was giving lip to a female security guard who was advising her to get to class. The girl turned around and in her very eloquent way, told the security guard --who really wasn't, just the secretary doing someone else's job-- "Lady, why is you still talking?" I was appalled by two things: the teen's audacity to speak to an adult, a school employee as such and, "lady, why IS you still talking"? What exactly is going on with our schools that our kids cannot speak grammatically correct? And they are not ashamed that they cannot speak correctly.
What pisses me off more with this batch of youth is that they have the "I don't care" attitude when it comes to everything that will benefit them in the long run but if you argue with them over a souped up ride, or which entertainer is the best, or about some lame boy or girl cheating on them, chances are they'll end up dead by a gun shot or a knife wound. And for the most part, their parents aren't even around because they are working, two or maybe three jobs to support them or because of a single parent family household. Or in a lot of cases, these parents just don't give a f*ck. But they'll be ready to swing if their child commits a crime and claim they are innocent, no matter what the evidence may suggest.
And what about these teenaged parents? They are getting younger and younger. I was on the bus and heard a 7th grader talking about how a fellow classmate was pregnant... and may have AIDS. Correct me if I'm wrong but in 7th grade, the average age is what, 12? So when you're 24, your child will be 12. Wow. And where are her parents? It's sad that now parents aren't allowed to know when their child is taking AIDS test or about their sexual history but a parent can be found in neglect for not giving proper care for their sickly child. Our government is a wonderful thing, huh. I looked in the newspaper this morning to read the front page, then I read the local section, then sports, then the business section. On the front page of the sports, they had the high school football players who signed with national colleges to further their sports careers. This one young man, held a baby in his arms, about 13 mos-18 mos old. The boy has to be 17 or 18. But I assumed maybe it was his little brother or perhaps a nephew.
Why am I so naive? This college bound young man was actually holding his son. Where are his parents, or where were they to advise him on having sex, and unprotected sex at that? Back in my day, a child was shamed for having premarital sex and if a baby was borne of this, then that was double the shame. Like Fantasia said, it's like a badge of honor now. No it is not. When will we get out of the mentality that having a child as a child don't make you cute, nice, or any adjective close to those words? Me, I know I have goals in life and nothing will prevent me from achieving those goals. My parents made sure that I was properly educated in school and at home. They made sure to train me to have an open mind and to look at the broader picture in life. That is sorely missing with today's parents and their children. Sadly, it'll only get worse because if you tell these parents about their children, they get offended, want to curse you out and more often than not, the child will curse you out, too, as they are cussing like sailors these days IN FRONT OF THEIR PARENTS, no less. The fact that we have so many parents who had children when they were teens have given way to today's youth feeling like their parents are their friends and not the authoratative figures, which gives these little monsters leeway to talk to their teachers and administrators the way they do because they talk to their parents that way. And then, when you do chastise, or better yet, beat them, Child Protective Services are called for child abuse. This is another reason why these ingrates get away with so much because rights have been removed from the parents. What happened in the last couple of decades? I'm fed up with this.
Monday, February 5, 2007
A Phoenix rises from the ashes and his name is Obama
For many years, the African American community has wrung its pleading hands in the hopes of calling upon a new leader to follow in the footsteps of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Many have heeded the call; Rev.'s Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Both have proferred themselves to be the annointed successors to the legacy born of the Civil Rights Era, but as it is written in the mighty word of God we hold so sacred and so has come to pass, not all are chosen.
Sharpton and Jackson have not only failed at inspiring a new generation to walk the trail blazen past of our ancestors, but they have dropped the mantle in bids to become media darlings. At worse, they have sacrificed their credibility to remain relevant to a press that long ago saw no value in their pomp and circumstance. God don't like ugly; it's even more shameful that his representatives would cloth themselves in his righteousness and rage gainst the system by which feeds their ego. Pride before fall is a scripture they may have perused, but not entered into the consciousness. For there is no other reason than ego as to why Blacks have stilled in movement on the beaten path of racism, oppression, slavery, violence and crime.
Not only is the Devil a lie, but so is the media because GUESS WHAT?!
SLAVERY IS NOT OVER!
African Americans are still slaves to the insituionalized racism which permeates the very fabric of this alleged free society which trumpets opportunity but yet so many blacks are denied the priviledge. We are so much more than the stereotypes of ignorancewhich are used as labels; greater than the sum parts of those who feed into the notion that all hope is lost. Therefore, pimping and turning little black girls into symbols of lust warrant such a degradation of our race.
Our schools are in decay because of deficient funding, materials and teachers willing to step into the inner city and proivde solid education for fear they are marked for death at the hands of a black man. I suggest society fears more an educated Black man who knows his potential and chooses not to stay in his place, but rise to the forefront of the cause.
One such man is none other than Barack Obama. The charismatic young Senator from Illinois has come from an obscure background of good works to the forefront of the Democratic ticket. Many debates will spring forth as to whether or not he will earn the party's nomination for president, but yet he does more than pose for the money shot. He opposed the Iraq war long before it was in vogue, passed ethics reform and is leading the fight on other pertinent issues critical to the survival of the "Dream".
A dream that has turned into a nightmare as the theology of By Any Means necessary has been twisted to construte shooting up drugs, black on black crime, medicority and the loss of innocence before puberty.
Time will tell if Obama is the man to help fufill this dream. Or if he is simply the last man to eulogize living up to the credo of our race.
So far, so good.
Sharpton and Jackson have not only failed at inspiring a new generation to walk the trail blazen past of our ancestors, but they have dropped the mantle in bids to become media darlings. At worse, they have sacrificed their credibility to remain relevant to a press that long ago saw no value in their pomp and circumstance. God don't like ugly; it's even more shameful that his representatives would cloth themselves in his righteousness and rage gainst the system by which feeds their ego. Pride before fall is a scripture they may have perused, but not entered into the consciousness. For there is no other reason than ego as to why Blacks have stilled in movement on the beaten path of racism, oppression, slavery, violence and crime.
Not only is the Devil a lie, but so is the media because GUESS WHAT?!
SLAVERY IS NOT OVER!
African Americans are still slaves to the insituionalized racism which permeates the very fabric of this alleged free society which trumpets opportunity but yet so many blacks are denied the priviledge. We are so much more than the stereotypes of ignorancewhich are used as labels; greater than the sum parts of those who feed into the notion that all hope is lost. Therefore, pimping and turning little black girls into symbols of lust warrant such a degradation of our race.
Our schools are in decay because of deficient funding, materials and teachers willing to step into the inner city and proivde solid education for fear they are marked for death at the hands of a black man. I suggest society fears more an educated Black man who knows his potential and chooses not to stay in his place, but rise to the forefront of the cause.
One such man is none other than Barack Obama. The charismatic young Senator from Illinois has come from an obscure background of good works to the forefront of the Democratic ticket. Many debates will spring forth as to whether or not he will earn the party's nomination for president, but yet he does more than pose for the money shot. He opposed the Iraq war long before it was in vogue, passed ethics reform and is leading the fight on other pertinent issues critical to the survival of the "Dream".
A dream that has turned into a nightmare as the theology of By Any Means necessary has been twisted to construte shooting up drugs, black on black crime, medicority and the loss of innocence before puberty.
Time will tell if Obama is the man to help fufill this dream. Or if he is simply the last man to eulogize living up to the credo of our race.
So far, so good.
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