When I saw this story on the Today Show this morning it merey broke my heart. Billy Wolfe is a kid who has been bullied and tormented since elementary school. Billy, 16, has endured black eyes, cuts, and bruises simply because he’s considered an “easy target”.
When he spoke I could see the fear and tension. His parents are threatening to sue the school district based on videos showing Billy being beaten by his peers.
As a mother, I couldn’t help but wonder what I would do if one of my girls were being bullied. In my mind I would jack the little mother fuckers up when they least expected it and issue out a beautiful can of whip ass, NOTE *see The Hand That Rocks The Cradle* and go on about my business. But in reality you can’t just go and attack a little pre-pubescent fucker who’s beating on your kid……well, yes you can but I’ll leave that for another post.
As parents, it’s our job to recognize when things aren’t going right with our children. We have to encourage them to talk to us without being too judgemental with their responses. It’s also important to at least take into consideration what the kid whose doing the bullying is going through at home.
Kids who bully are sometimes brought up in an environment where they are either being abused or neglected in some way.
I think Billy’s parents did the right thing by taking legal action against the school district for not putting forth an effort into making sure that Billy’s bullies would be repremanded for their actions. Especially when they were caught on tape beating the crap out of this kid.
KC teen charged after son, two other toddlers eat cocaine:
A Kansas City teenage mom faces child endangerment charges after hospital tests revealed that her 2-year-old son and two other young children ingested crack cocaine.
The children apparently sampled crumbs that the mom left behind when she darted out to sell drugs, court records allege.
Children’s Mercy Hospital staff contacted police after one of the children suffered seizures earlier this week.
Jackson County prosecutors on Thursday charged Tasha Cole, 17, with four felony counts of endangering the welfare of a child. They requested a $75,000 bond.
After giving police several false stories, Cole admitted that she left the children with a friend while she sold drugs, according to the affidavit filed in court to support the charges.
According to court records:
Cole told police that when she returned to the apartment in the 3000 block of Harrison Street, she found the children playing with the plate on which she had “cut” the crack cocaine. A razor blade lay on the floor.
Cole told detectives that when she put the plate down earlier, it had crumbs of cocaine on it. She told police that she picked up the razor blade but left the plate. About 10 minutes later she realized the children were playing with the plate, and she took them across the hall and told relatives what happened.
One relative wanted to take the children to the hospital, but Cole told her not to because she was “scared.” Later, when her son began having seizures, she took him to the hospital.
Not told about the cocaine, hospital staff treated the boy, took a urine sample and released him. Later, the sample came back positive for cocaine.
Hospital staff asked Cole to return and notified police.
As part of the investigation, the other two children who had been in the apartment, ages 3 and 2, were checked. Both tested positive for cocaine, according to the court documents.
My faith in all things government related is somewhat dormant at the moment. Is it me or is it that when someone is given a badge, they automatically catch a case of Goditus?
I can understand the stress and frustration a job can bring, but damn!
Brian Sterner, a 34 year old paralyzed man who was brought in on charges of fleeing a police officer because of a traffic violation was……..well, I’ll let you take a look for yourself:
I’m not discounting the fact that what he did was wrong because he was. Wheelchair or not, he broke the law. This however did not warrent the cruel and inhumane treatment that he recieved from this Florida officer, who literally tossed him out of his wheelchair and onto the floor like a rag doll. What really pisses me off is the way he was handled back into his wheelchair by the Jolly Green Dyke and left there possibly hurt and definitely humiliated. I for damn sure smell a BIG lawsuit on the horizon.
Charlette Marshall-Jones (Jolly Green Dyke) faces charges of abuse of a disabled person, a third-degree felony. If convicted, she could be sent to prison for five years.
First let me say this: When they find you little cock sucking mother fuckers I hope that they prosecute your little asses to the fullest extent!!!
What was that all about you ask? Robert Frost is my favorite poet, may he rest in peace and to have some little punks vandalize his former home, a place where he wrote some of his most significant works of poetry…………..PISSES ME OFF!! All for a goddamn party.
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RIPTON, Vt. - A former home of the late poet Robert Frost has been vandalized, with intruders destroying dozens of items and setting fire to furniture in what police say was an underage-drinking party.
Homer Noble Farm was ransacked late Friday night during a party attended by as many as 50 people, Sgt. Lee Hodsden said Monday.
The intruders broke a window to get into the two-story wood frame building — a furnished residence open in the summer — before destroying tables and chairs, pictures, windows, light fixtures, and dishes. Wicker furniture and dressers were smashed and thrown into a fireplace and burned, apparently to provide heat in the unheated building, he said.
Empty beer bottles and cans, plastic cups, and cellophane apparently used to hold marijuana were also found, according to Hodsden. The vandals vomited in the living room and discharged two fire extinguishers inside the building, on a dead-end road off Route 125.
A cabin on the property where Frost is said to have done some of his writing was untouched.
No arrests have been made, Hodsden said, adding that they’ve tracked down some partygoers and believe they are minors.
The damage was discovered Saturday by a hiker who notified police at Middlebury College, which maintains the site. The property’s caretaker was last there at 10 a.m. Friday, police said.
Frost, a celebrated New England poet known for such verse as “The Road Not Taken” and “The Gift Outright,” died in 1963. He summered at the home from 1939 to 1963.
I told myself that I wasn’t going to entertain the thought of writing about this but I have three daughters and I feel that I should. First let me say that Hollywood and the media has it’s priorities mixed the fuck up. Eventhough Jamie Lynn Spears is sixteen years old and pregnant, I’d like to focus on parenting skills or the lack there of. We are not neanderthals we know that teenage pregnancy is a reality. We know this all to well within the black community. We all know what her sister is going through. We haven’t heard about the girl’s father (or at least I haven’t). The mother is a money grubbing stage mother. She might have felt that the only person that really cared about her was the nineteen year old live in boyfriend. When young teenage girls feel as if they have no support system they tend to turn to the first person that says I love you.
This girl has a lot more going on than just being hot in the draws. unprotected sex at sixteen, a nineteen year old live in boyfriend, a father who we don’t see, a sister who doesn’t know where the fuck she is half the time and who can’t take care of the children she already has, and a mother who is there for the money. Am I playing devil’s advocate………you bet your sweet ass I am. The child (Jamie Lynn) is in need of acceptance, not from the public but from the very people who are suppose to be there for her.
She maybe able to take care of this child financially but is she able to take care of it mentally? Is this sending an ok to my twelve year old daughter who loves to watch Zoey 101 that it’s ok to get pregnant at sixteen?
Is this a racial issue? Whould the situation be different if say……Raven Samone would have gotten pregnant at the age of sixteen? Do you think that Raven Samone would have been let out of her contract if this had happened to her? You bet your sweet ass she would have. All of a sudden there are new public service announcements about safe sex and abstinance and now Nickolodeon is doing a show pertaining to Jamie Lynn hosted by Linda Ellerbe. Most of Hollywood is rallying around her in support but my question is where were all of these actors and actresses when Quadranika, Lexus, and Laqueshanae ended up pregnant at the age of fifteen and sixteen living in the Hood who wasn’t financially able to support thier children which lead them to benefit from goverment assistance. It’s a war against the haves and the have nots.
This is not cute folks……AT ALL!!!
Why do you think this hasn’t happened to Raven Samone yet? Say what the hell you want to say but there is a difference between Jamie Lynn and Raven Samone.
Raven knows or has been taught that as a young black actress with her status, there is no room to mess up or to get into trouble. It’s that unspoken knowledge that you can’t do the things that your white counterparts can because no matter what, your going to be perceived in a way that the media wants to portray you which at times is not in a good light.
People we have to seriously have to take situations like this in our own hands as parents. Especially with our daughters. No matter the fame,wealth, or race. It is up to us to teach our young girls that they are loved and are beautiful and intelligient in their own right. Having power and status does not exlude them from the outside world.
As the parent of three young girls, I would never tell anyone what my girls will or will not do! I’m not and will not be with them 24/7. I know that there are peer pressures that they will eventually have to deal with. It is my job to teach them what’s right before it gets to that point. I’m a strong believer in having sex education taught in the classrooms and at home.
After everything that I’ve taught my girls about this matter and they still end up pregnant, I’ll be at ease knowing that I’ve done my part. It was their choice to not listen or take the needed percautions……hence they would have to take that resposibility and try and make the best of it.
Am I the poster child for attracting the simple and stupid? I had a visit from one of my young clients the other day. The very same girl I had to put into the Juvenile Justice System because she wasn't going to school and was violating her parole. (don't even ask) I've been Crystal's case manager since she was seventeen years old. When I met her she was already a mother. I went above and beyond for this girl until I came to realization that I couldn't change her, so I did the hardest thing I had ever had to do and that was to cut her off. Once I saw that she wasn't going to stop doing what she wanted and kept hanging around the same crowd and getting into trouble......she had to get a dose of tough love.
Months back I heard that she was pregnat again. I was hurt and pissed at the same time because eventhough I had cut her off she would come by the office every now and then to say hi. I remember one conversation she was talking about her new boyfriend, I asked if she was being careful and she told me that she was. I wanted to believe her but something inside me knew that she wasn't being truthful. So one day I'm in my office and Crystal comes in looking like who did it and why. She had her beautiful daughter with her and the child looked as if she hadn't had a bath in days, her hair was all over the place I was disgusted. My first impulse was to jump across my desk and beat the living shit out of Crystal, but I didn't feel like going to jail. Crystal had been intentionally avoiding me, I don't know if it was because she knew that I knew she was pregnant again or because she knew I was going to tear her a new ass.
Crystal: Hey Miss Erica. (smilin like a damn mule eatin briars)
Me: Dead silence and a *blank stare*
Crystal: Umm, I just wanted to let you know that you gonna be a auntie.
Me: *blank stare* Crystal I asked you a while back if you were using protection. What did you tell me?
Crystal: Well, he didn't have none.
Me: WHAT? So you mean to tell me, you laid your ass up with this son of a bitch and because he didn't have a rubber you went and had sex with him anyway? You can get any damn thing you want to get but you couldn't take your ass somewhere to buy rubbers? Hell, I offered you a box full. What did you do with those? (dammit, don't answer that).
Crystal: Well, I'm gonna be alright because my boyfriend got a job and I'm looking for a job.
Me: CRYSTAL, how the hell are you going to look for a job when you're pregnant? Who is going to hire you Crystal?
Me: You know what? I think it's in your best interest to leave my office now before I do or say something to make you cry. I am too hurt to even look at you right now. After everything I've done to help you.....you end up fucking it up. Just go ahead and leave.
Crystal left and I didn't hear from her again until just the other day. She came in with a beautiful baby boy in her arms.
Crystal: Miss Erica, I come by to show you my baby.
Me: Uh huh, cute.
Crystal: I also wanted to tell you that I'm gettin married in 2009.
Me: *blank stare* Ummmm are you marrying the baby's daddy?
Crystal: No, I got a new friend.
Jesus PLEASE take the fucking wheel!!!!!!
Me: Crystal, instead of getting married why don't you get your high school diploma and find a job to take care of your children?
Crystal: I don't feel like sitting in class all that time.
By this time Crystal's mother come boppin her big ass down the hall towards my office, stands in the doorway smiling from ear to ear.
Crystal's Mom: You heard the good news?
Damn, I want to bust that ass but this heffa is five times my size!
Me: What do you think about it? Can you honestly say that you are happy with the way your trainwreck of a daughter's life is leading?
Crystal's Mom: Well, that's her. If she wanna git married, she grown!
Cross eyed heffa!!!!! Your daughter's life is in shambles and you think it's cute?
Me: You take your damn daughter and ya'll get the hell out of my office. I can't take this mess anymore.
Even though I express tough love with Crystal..........she can still be saved. I may not be the one who could do it but I hope and pray that she comes around and realize what's important. I still love her but it hurts like hell and I can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.
This is not the way I would want my daughters to be encouraged to read a book. I really hoped that after the complaints pertaining to "Hot Ghetto Mess" they would add more relevant viewing material.
BET, when are you going to realize that you DO NOT speak for all blacks, and THIS is not the way to educate our young people!
It’s Black Bikers weekend in Myrtle Beach! Every year bikers from all over come and show off their bikes and have a little fun, drink, and God knows what else. When I was younger, all of my friends would began making preparations for that particular weekend by getting their hair and nails done and search for that particular outfit that would draw every type of attention imaginable. I was never asked if I was going because 1) They knew my mamma and daddy wouldn’t go for it. 2) My big brother would probably be there, meaning that if I was to go….we’d have 24 hour surveillance meaning that no damn body was going to have any fun! Did I resent my mom and daddy for not letting me go? YES! I would cry and stay in my room and call myself being pissed. (Of course I never displayed my anger toward my parents face to face because either two things would happen… 1) I’d get the shit slapped out of me and 2) I’d get the shit slapped out of me. Since I’ve never been I asked my hubby if he wanted to ride down to the beach so that, at age 33 I could see what my parents were trying to shield me from. (and NOW I see….THANK YOU MOMMA & DADDY). We didn’t get out of the truck because the last thing I wanted was to bump into one of my clients. THAT would have been really awkward.
As we drove down the boulevard all I could see was mostly young girls wearing next to nothing. I just saw a sea of ASS & BREASTS. The big girls were wearing thongs with thier stomachs hanging over, skinny girls wearing no underware looking like who-did-it-and-why! You could see the looks on the men’s faces when they walked by….they looked like vultures ready to feast.
All I could think was Where are these children’s mothers? I really felt sad for them. These girls really thought that the men who were groping and giving them attention were honestly into them! When in actuality they were looked at as hoes and bitches. When will our young black girls realize that self-awareness, intelligence, and high self-esteem are the key componets of being sexy! You don’t have to degrade yourself and show your ass.
*If by any chance that some young woman out there reading this had attended Black Bikers Weekend in Myrtle Beach wearing next to nothing, and having sex with every man that paid you an inkling of attention, I have a couple of questions for you:
1) Did the guy you gave your number to call you yet?
2) Have you tried to call him and got no reply?
3) Do you honestly think that he’s thinking about you at this moment?
4) You know you won’t see him ever again right?
5) After you gave it up to him and he passed you on to his hommie, how did you feel?
6) After you gave it up to him and he told you to "get the fuck out of his hotel room", how did you feel?
7) When they laughed at your ass after sex, how did you feel?
8) When you gave it up with your baby next to you in the stroller, afterwards….how did you feel? (no lie, I saw this young girl with her baby getting it on with some mutha fucka)
9) If your mother found out about your public escapades, how would you think she’d feel?
10) More importantly……..HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT YOURSELF AFTER THE FACT?
THAT’S WHAT I THOUGHT!!!!!!!
Knowledge is Power people……..We can do better!!!!!
