Posted on 03/30/2006 10:53:48 AM PST by JZelle
Princess Galloway's days as a D.C. gang member began innocently enough: She and her childhood friends had birthday parties, talked about clothes and held sleepovers at one another's houses. "It was, like, a normal thing females do," says Princess, 16. As the girls grew older, the parties became nighttime outings to go-go clubs. Belts and bags were replaced by blades and bats as accessories. A girl gang was born. "We started fighting when a different female gang from uptown jumped one of our friends," says Princess, an honor roll student at Spingarn High School in Northeast who quit her gang after spending several stints in the Oak Hill Youth Facility for assault. "It just escalated. ... It was a back-and-forth beef."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
So what? We sit back and let the messed up justice system takeover?
Vigilantism, conducted carefully, is not a negative.
As for whether I'll join or not, maybe I will maybe I won't. In fact, circumstances might force me to join. I'm willing to accept that. Just because people who support warfare and justice are unwilling to get their hands dirty does not make them hypocritical or cowardly. That's the same kind of BS "chickenhawk" argument the Left uses against this war. Some people just fit better in other capacities.
Personally, I'm much better at grunt work and going into the dirt with guns blazing. Unfortunately, a brief look at Congress and the state of American society screams at me loud and clear that my talents are needed elsewhere.
Enemies foreign and DOMESTIC. No Al Qaeda, illegal alien, tinpot dictator or any other foreign scum can destroy America without her rising up like a pheonix and enacting godly vengeance on those who commit such evil. If America is going to fall, it will be because of the traitors in our midst. That's why I'm hitting the books and trying to be a politician.
Maybe if things get better you'll see me in either a green or a blue uniform.
Them' gangstas will find out when the bullets start to fly, "girlpower" will not suffice in stopping bullets in mid-air.
Ask yourself this, would you want to marry any of them?
I didn't think so.
Laugh at them and call them wimps. That's equality. ;)
Well Bill Cosby, Shaniqua and Taliqua are now in gangs, standing on the corner and they still can't speak English. Soon to be dead or in jail. Great future. Major props to gansta rap for promoting all this crud. Down with the racist, fascist, blah, blah, blah, .... Bill O'Reilly for speaking out.
What Bill Cosby Should Be Talking About
It is really sad and pathetic what liberalism has done to many women and minorities.
The Time magazine link is the source to the Bill Cosby quote provided.
(CNN) -- You don't want to get Bill Cosby angry.
And Bill Cosby is angry.
Cosby's ire is focused at the African-American community: its rates of juvenile delinquency, its parenting, the coarse language of its youth. You can do better, he exhorts his audiences. Don't let yourself be victims, and especially don't let the poorest in the community let themselves be victims.
"This is about little children ... and people not giving them better choices," he told Paula Zahn in an interview for CNN's "Paula Zahn Now." "Talking. Talking. Parenting. Correctly parenting. That's what it's about. And you can't blame other things. You got to -- you got to straighten up your house. Straighten up your apartment. Straighten up your child."
"Let them stay mad as long as they don't have good sense," he told Zahn. "I don't care what right-wing white people are thinking. ... How long you gonna whisper about a smallpox epidemic in your apartment building when bodies are coming out under the sheets?"
Focus on education
To get the message out, Cosby has organized and continues to organize town hall meetings in inner city communities where community leaders -- from police chiefs to district attorneys to parents to schoolteachers -- get everyone to talk about how to help give kids better choices.
Cosby first caused controversy after making a speech at a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision that struck down school segregation.
"People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around. ... The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting," he said, addressing an audience of Washington VIPs.
"Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem. We have got to take the neighborhood back. ... They are standing on the corner and they can't speak English."
A number of commentators have defended Cosby, including NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, who shared the dais with Cosby, and black newspaper columnists Clarence Page and Leonard Pitts Jr.
"He's pissed a lot of people off," Kevin McCaskill, principal of a vocational high school in Springfield, Massachusetts, told "Paula Zahn Now." McCaskill has worked with Cosby on educational programs. "[But] he simply said this is what is occurring, what are we going to do about it, without excuses. ... It's not about Kevin McCaskill nor do I think it's about Bill Cosby. It's about what do we have to offer to make people the best they can possibly be."
But, he told Zahn, "what kept me out of trouble is going right to the edge and then ... thinking that my mother would be embarrassed, and that I didn't want to embarrass her, and that my father would be embarrassed, and I just didn't want to do that to my family."
'Make them think'
"When it came time for the Huxtables, it was off of my routines," he told CNN. "And I was watching television and I noticed that a number of television series had these little ... children who were brighter than the parents."
He wanted to change that around.
"Our children ... were never brought up to feel that comfortable that they could call the parents stupid. First of all, they're not working. They're homeless," he told Zahn with some amused exasperation. "You can't do that."
"When I say, 'I don't care what white people think,' I mean that. I mean, I'm addressing my people, period," he told CNN. "I'm telling you. I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. ... I want you to stop doing things that are detrimental to your getting at least an education with a high school credential. I'm talking to the people who are dropping out."
Although Bill Cosby is a Democrat, you gotta love what he is trying to do for the black community. Our nation needs more courageous people like him.
New bumper sticker
My honor student can beat up your honor student!
"Women, being just as tough as men, the female gangs will soon challenge the male gangs for dominance"
Just like in Coporate America.
"The Hell's Angels will probably be taken over by female leadership at some point soon."
Affirmative Action spilling over into the criminal element.
Even though I myself am female, I admit that other females are getting more and more vicious.
More like the effects of feminism on the criminal element. Years ago in a college criminology paper, I predicted such would be the case. GMTA
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