Posted on 03/31/2007 9:30:56 PM PDT by lqclamar
Shaquanda Cotton, whose yearlong stay in a juvenile prison for pushing a hall monitor made her a symbol of alleged racial bias and the troubled Texas Youth Commission, was released Saturday, a state lawmaker said.
The 15-year-old was freed from the Ron Jackson Correctional Complex and picked up by her mother, said Rep. Harold Dutton, chairman of the House juvenile justice committee who lobbied state officials for Cotton's release.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
14 year old Shaquanda Cotton had a long record as disciplinary problem at her school in the rural Texas town of Paris. Last year Shaquanda physically assaulted a teacher's aide employed by the district, and was brought up on criminal charges in the juvenile court system, which is a felony.
Prosecutors in the case offered Shaquanda a plea deal that reduced the charge to a misdemeanor with a penalty of 1 year on probation. Shaquanda's mother Creola Cotton refused the plea deal because she believed her daughter was the victim of institutional "racism" against black people. This was not the first time Creola Cotton had been an impediment to correcting her spoiled bratty daughter's bad behavior either. To Creola, Shaquanda was a perfect little angel incapable of doing any wrong and any attempt to discipline her was simply a case of "whitey" persecuting her.
When Shaquanda's mother rejected the plea deal that would've gotten her daughter off with a slap on the wrist, prosecutors had no choice but to stick with the felony charges. Shaquanda was prosecuted for assault, found guilty, and sentenced according to the law to a state juvenile detention facility for up to 7 years, contingent upon her behavior while there.
Shaquanda's mother Creola wasn't happy with this. Even though it was what the law said, and even though her bratty daughter was guilty, Creola was convinced that it just had to be a giant conspiracy by "the man" to persecute black children. About a year went by with nobody listening to her, then Creola finally found an audience with Howard Witt, a bleeding heart left wing journalist at the Chicago Tribune.
A couple weeks ago Witt did a "human interest" story on Shaquanda that made Paris, Texas sound like a scene straight out of Mississippi Burning. Just to give you an idea of how over the top Witt's story was, its opening paragraph likened Shaquanda's plight to the lynching of black people on the Paris town fair grounds over 100 years ago. (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0703120170mar12,1,1921178.story?page=1&coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=2&cset=true)
Within minutes the left wing professional race hustler crowd was all over it. They showed up in Paris with Al Sharpton wannabes and Nation of Islam rent-a-mobs, screaming for Shaquanda's release and demanding the head of the judge who dared to sentence her there.
The left's talking points also got picked up by the media without any scrutiny. Shaquanda's case was compared to that of a white teenager, who was given probation by the same judge after an arson conviction around the same time. The only difference: the arsonist agreed to the plea deal that Creola Cotton refused for her dauther.
Anyhow, after a couple weeks of protests and bluster from the poverty pimps the state government relented to avoid the controversy.
Poor child...when will this pandemic white on black racism end?</s>
http://web.theparisnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=e44b790ed2f134b9
Creola Cotton says the most unflattering and inaccurate part of the ordeal is how she and her daughter were treated by Paris Independent School District and the Lamar County judicial system. Both she and Cherry say their children were unfairly discriminated against by the district because they protested and filed complaints against the school and police department.“That is supposed to be the American system. You don’t go fight. You talk about it. if you’re not satisfied, you file a complaint. That’s supposed to be the American way,” Cherry said.
“If you’re white,” Cotton added.
...in other words, the mother already has a huge chip on her shoulder about racism. The story continues:
The defense position has always been that a school employee shoved the girl first. Cherry and Creola Cotton say the teacher’s aide faked injures so charges could be trumped up against the 14-year-old.
...that's right. It's all a conspiracy by whitey to put black children in prison. But what about the trial itself? Here's the Paris News article on Shaquanda's sentencing:
Prosecutors argued against probation, saying that the girl’s mother is perhaps her biggest problem and that the girl has no hope of getting better as long as she’s in the same home as her mother. District Attorney Gary Young said the mother’s response to any problem at school was to paint school officials as racist.During the punishment phase, a half-dozen or so teachers — both white and black — from the high school or from Paris Alternative School, where the girl was transferred after the incident last September, described the girl as “openly defiant, generally did not follow rules.”
Michael Johnson, a teacher/coach at the alternative school, said after a teacher “wrote her up” for violation of rules, the girl told him “I’m going to bust her in the nose.” She wanted to go home, but he made her go to the office with him, Johnson said. He said she told him, “You don’t know me very well, because I’ll burn this school down.”
Johnson, who is black, said the girl’s mother berated him, calling him the equivalent of an Uncle Tom.
The jury had three women, one of whom was black, and three men.
Link to story from above: http://www.lamarcountyattorney.com/06news.html
He told the jury at the trial that after he took Shaquanda to the office she threatened to burn the school down. When he reported it to her mother Creola, Creola called him an "Uncle Tom" and accused him of racism.
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Prosecutors in the case offered Shaquanda a plea deal that reduced the charge to a misdemeanor with a penalty of 1 year on probation. Shaquanda's mother Creola Cotton refused the plea deal because she believed her daughter was the victim of institutional "racism" against black people. "
I hate how those racists trick innocent blacks into pushing teachers. Same horrible racists who force many of them into shooting each other and dealing drugs.
Shaquanda?
Anyway, she has been released into society to live a life of crime, I'm sure.
She'll be in grown-up prison before long.
I never heard that. Now he's called a Uncle Tom? That girl got some problems. I am in Texas and I actually have not heard much of it.
If my mom named me that, I'd be a discipline problem, too!
Racism is endemic to the white race. Only they can be prejudiced.
(/sarcasm)
They have a long article about it here: http://www.lamarcountyattorney.com/06news.html#anchor4455
Apparently the shoving incident she was charged for was quite serious. All the MSM reports claim that the teacher's aide was uninjured, but the actual trial testimony says that she had to be placed on a stretcher and taken to the emergency room by ambulence! The left wing sleazebags at the Chicago Tribune flat out LIED about this in their article.
"well, you probably wont see her again...she's almost an adult"
and not so newsworthy. She's going to learn that her little tantrum only works when the cameras come to town. When you're an adult that assaults a convenience store clerk, it's tougher to blame Orval Faubus.
I've heard that argument before. That part of the definition of racism is that you have to be "in the racial majority" to be a racist. I don't think that's exactly Webster's but whatever. Only recently have I heard what term they use for someone who isn't in the "racial majority" but otherwise fits the definition of racist. The term is COLORIST.
Mom Creola Cotton, was accompanied by her daughters Egyptian Cotton, Spoola Cotton, Threada Cotton, Woven Cotton and son Boll Weevil Cotton...
LOL! And don't foget Fair Isle and Pima Cotton.
Mama's probably already slapped the school system and the town with a hefty lawsuit. The little darling's civil rights have been violated -- discrimination -- and permanent emotional damage. (Not to mention back and neck problems from the jailhouse mattress.)
and don't forget Pima and Pinpoint
Those people have funny names
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