| Black Men are out of Control-Gun violence on the rise; Murder rates of Black Men killing Black men rises again | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 20 2012, 11:27 AM (14,112 Views) | |
| cisslybee2012 | Mar 30 2012, 10:32 AM Post #321 |
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I don't know what you mean. I haven't been bullied since I was a little kid.
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| n.W.o. | Mar 30 2012, 06:10 PM Post #322 |
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The tag team combo of UTB and Ciss posting about cyber-bullying and Redd asking Ciss for permission to succeed like she's a damn e-andriod awaiting orders from her master tickles me brown. |
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| cisslybee2012 | Mar 30 2012, 06:21 PM Post #323 |
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Stupid. |
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| Mal | Mar 31 2012, 06:50 AM Post #324 |
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Lets try and stick to the issue and not get derailed, there have been some recent books about this very issue. Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, reminds us that more Black men are in prison today than there were Blacks enslaved in America in 1850. She suggests that we have not really ended Jim Crow, but have just given it another name — the criminal justice system. Chicago is ground-zero for the destruction of young black men in America! In Chicago, only three out of 100 Black high-school freshmen will graduate from college by age 25 (Consortium for School Research at U of Chicago). Only 44 percent of black males in Chicago graduate from high school (Schott Foundation for Public Education). Last summer, approximately 70 percent of Chicago's young black males 16 to 19 years old were unemployed (Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University). Black boys are arrested in Chicago at two to six times the rates of other populations (Project Nia). From Barack to Oprah, Chicago should be a symbol of progress but why are we still so silent about a generation of young black men who are sinking. Edited by Mal, Mar 31 2012, 06:50 AM.
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| cisslybee2012 | Mar 31 2012, 07:09 AM Post #325 |
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It would be great if black people literally got tired of hearing shit they want to hear. But that's the whole problem. They never grow tired of romanticizing their weaknesses. They'll buy any book with what they want to hear written in it. And they'll flock to listen to any fool preach the same shit they want to hear in person. Namely, Anybody besides themselves being responsible for their self stifling condition. Edited by cisslybee2012, Mar 31 2012, 07:13 AM.
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| kennyinbmore | Mar 31 2012, 11:27 AM Post #326 |
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Do you honestly believe that crap? |
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| Mal | Apr 1 2012, 07:33 AM Post #327 |
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In a sense that is a true comment. The current prison system is not being used to rehabilitate prisoners or educate them so they stop commiting crimes. All prisons are currently being used as work houses and labor forces for local and state governments. Prisons are now being run as businesses. States will get more government funding for the amount of people they lock up but also for the work that prisoners do inside prison. Call centers, making number plates, clearing waste land, assembling basic equipment is now being done by prisonsers. All work that they do not get paid for. |
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| cisslybee2012 | Apr 1 2012, 01:28 PM Post #328 |
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The states aren't responsible for rehabilitating anybody. Forget about Jim Crow. If a person doesn't make it to adulthood, then their cognizance as a child will be exploited. Those are the brakes man. So what people need to do is make an effort to grow up and rehabilitate themselves. A man can stop acting like a child if he really want to. Because I've seen many men clean up their act and disassociate themselves from the others who are bent on acting stupid. Those men found a great responsible woman whose not looking for a man to take charge to settle down with and they're living their lives as adults in sober bliss. And those responsible adult women they find are not silly girls who wear silly underwear to turn a man on or kiss a man's ass, fostering and defending his weaknesses to get him to stay. The ones who want to run wild are going to do that regardless, and the states are not responsible for setting them straight. If those big kids can be utilized, then they will be, and that's all there is to that. They got the armed forces and the labor industry for these people in limbo to serve. Edited by cisslybee2012, Apr 1 2012, 02:04 PM.
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| cisslybee2012 | Apr 1 2012, 01:31 PM Post #329 |
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And women can pull themselves together and stop acting like little kids if they want to too. I've also seen many women clean up their act. They stopped running wild with men and expecting men to take charge. Those women got sober, and took responsibility for themselves and their children. They woke up and started putting their children first. They teach their children important things for their survival and help them with their homework, etc. I've seen it happen. Women can save their own lives and save their children's lives if they really want to. And some of them try to reach out to other women with children who are still bugging out on themselves and men. They try to show those women the way. Edited by cisslybee2012, Apr 1 2012, 01:50 PM.
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| Mal | Apr 2 2012, 07:09 AM Post #330 |
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There is no doubt that people need to pull themselves up and stop self destructive behaviour, why point out the obvious. The issue is that too many are not and it is impacting negatively on the Black community as a whole. Each man for themselves is not working for us and we cannot keep pretending that it is. |
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