I saw this over at Sandra Rose, but I’ve got $20 that says there is someone older involved. However, the “journalists” in the video say that they never recall a case like this.
According to paperwork from her initial appearance in court, Tye recruited at least three victims, one of whom was 14 years old, to work for her as prostitutes.
At least one of the victims did not want to become a prostitute; however, police said Tye convinced her by telling her about easy money…also told one of the victims that working for her was better than working for a male pimp because Tye would not beat up the victim, according to court paperwork.
“We have two girls who are, in essence, pimps,” said Phoenix Police Sgt. Andy Hill, “and they ran their own brothel.”Additionally, Tye told a victim’s mother that the victim was her prostitute and threatened the mother over the phone, police said. Other men believed to be associated with Tye also called the victim’s home and threatened her father. SOURCE
We’ve actually featured a story similar to this where a 13 year old recruited another 13 year old to be a stripper and prostitute in Dallas. Another case where a 26 year old woman recruited a 12 year old girl to strip. So it isn’t unheard of. .. Unfortunately
You sow stripper and pimp culture, you reap stripper and pimp culture. But its all fun and games until your child gets lured into sexual exploitation.
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This makes me sick! I have worked with a group of teenage girls and I can say that as a mother of young men, the girls are much more aggressive now! I agree, kids mirror what they see, even kids from good homes, will act out like the BET, MTv, and VH1 videos that have been a part of the culture for too long. I think the young female pimps should be sent to jail.
As much as I hate the degrading rappers, you can watch BET 24 hours a day and you will not learn how to pimp. For you to go out and sell your body or sell someone elses body, something crazy was going on at home.
I agree with Naima. I think the foundation was weak or at least exploitable. We need to emphasize self-respect and love for self because when you have that not a soul can put you up for sale.
I do believe the culture makes it so that these things can happen with a blind eye turned faster and easier than several years ago even. A shame…
This is sad but not surprising. As a culture we’ve become more tolerant of this behavior. The outcries are less. Too many young ladies and men don’t fear consequences, there’s not even a stigma too many places for having eary intercourse, for becoming parents or for having numerous sexual partners.
Of course ther were underlying issues as we’ll, but don’t discout the role of removing the stigma associated with sexual exploitation.
We’ve main streamed it and glamorized it. 20 years ago did any kids know what the inside of a strip club looked like?
Images matter. Social mores matter. Stigmas matter. Shame matters.
“20 years ago did any kids know what the inside of a strip club looked like?”
I sure as hell didn’t. I also didn’t regularly see the crack of a grown woman’s behind, breasts bouncing up and down, and grown men wearing t-shirts down to their ankles.
You are absolutely right – we have normalized all kinds of degrading behavior and put the bedroom and bedroom behavior out in the open. There is absolutely nothing left for kids to learn about sex, the female body or relationships. Nothing left to discover….at all. By the time the average American child is 12 they have been exposed to countless hours of sex, violence, misogyny, etc. And this includes children with two parents, a house in the burbs and a good education. So imagine what the kids who don’t have that have been exposed to. I cringe just thinking about it.
I think some of the mau-mauers think that because they managed to make it to adulthood without any problems that it is somehow the fault of just parents. Everyone is responsible for the state of the black community because we have not been shouting from the rooftops that the behavior by a lot of black people is simply WRONG and DANGEROUS.
Gina! you beat me to the punch. I was going to e-mail this story to you when I saw it on my local fox station. The link shows the video of arrest. Apprently this was a national sting.
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/571_Arrested_in_Child_Prostit
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has rescued 48 suspected teenage prostitutes, some as young as 13 years old, in a nationwide sweep to remove kids from the illegal sex trade and punish their accused pimps.
Over a three-night initiative called Operation Cross Country, federal agents working with local law enforcement also arrested more than 571 suspects on a variety of federal and state prostitution-related charges, the bureau said.
The teenage prostitutes found in the investigation ranged in age from 13 to 17.
“We may not be able to return their innocence but we can remove them from this cycle of abuse and violence,” said FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Meanwhile, in Memphis, Tenn., a man pleaded guilty Monday to federal civil rights charges for sex trafficking in minors. Leonard Fox faces at least 10 years in prison after admitting that he arranged for underaged girls to engage in sex for money.
“To sexually prey upon young girls in this manner for financial gain is particularly damaging to the victims and an affront to the society in which we live,” said Loretta King, acting head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
Historically, federal authorities rarely play a role in anti-prostitution crackdowns, but the FBI is becoming more involved as it tries to rescue children caught up in the business.
“The goal is to recover kids. We consider them the child victims of prostitution,” said FBI Deputy Assistant Director Daniel Roberts.
“Unfortunately, the vast majority of these kids are what they term ‘throwaway kids,’ with no family support, no friends. They’re kids that nobody wants, they’re loners. Many are runaways,” Roberts said.
Most of the children are put into the custody of local child protection agencies.
Agents in cities from Miami to Chicago to Anchorage, Alaska took part in the operation.
Special Agent Melissa Morrow of the FBI’s Washington office said the operation has put them on the trail of a particular 16-year-old prostitute they still haven’t found.
Adult prostitutes arrested during the operation provided key tips about the girl, the agent said.
“She is currently 16 and started when she was 13. Now she is out there recruiting other juveniles as well,” said Morrow, adding that finding the girl is “at the top of our list.”
The federal effort is also designed to hit pimps with much tougher prison sentences than they would likely get in state criminal courts.
Government prosecutors look to bring racketeering charges or conspiracy charges that can result in decades of jail time.
“Some of these networks of pimps and their organizations are very sophisticated, they’re interstate,” said Roberts, requiring wiretaps and undercover sting operations to bring charges.
The weekend’s roundup marked the third such Operation Cross Country, and is part of a broader federal program launched in 2003 to crack down on the sexual exploitation of children.
“Very Young Girls” is a film about underage prostituted girls age 13-16, made in cooperation with the GIRLS EDUCATION AND MENTORING SERVICE (GEMS) here in New York. The girls, who are older now, and have been through the GEMS program, tell what being a 13 yo exploited girl is really like!
In New York State, our Governor recently signed a SAFE HARBOR BILL which entitles these girls to services, GEMS rather than jail time, since they are beneath the age of consent. It’s wrong to blame the children for their own exploitation.
“Very Young Girls” has been available for viewing on Showtime all this month.
The next showing is on March 3rd. GEMS will send you a free copy of the DVD if you organize a house party to watch the movie in your home with students or friends.
http://www.gems-girls.org/girlsarenotforsale.html
Thanks for focusing the spotlight on these exploited children (this happens to boys too!)
Yep. I remember I saw my first x rated movie before I was seven. I still remember some scenes from it- so shocked that I was.
Did anyone of you watch Miami Vice as kids?
{ I agree, kids mirror what they see, even kids from good homes, will act out like the BET, MTV, and VH1 videos that have been a part of the culture for too long.}
We can not keep blaming everything wrong with our community on BET, MTV and a child’s peers. This is the culture of our country, the culture for a majority of our communities and the culture in a lot of homes.
Spiritual brokenness is a way of life for a lot of people and the chaos and atrocities ongoing in our communities are a result of this. There are a lot of people who have no values and if they did nothing is being enforced.
The main blame lies with M-A-M-A and P-A-P-A, children are a mirror image of their parent(s). What ever is taught to the child will be reflected back into society.
What ever the parent(s) failed to teach the children, especially the mother since the mother is a child’s first teacher will be displayed by the child. The father’s role is to re-enforce what the mother has taught the child.
What we have is a failure by several women as a whole who have not properly raised their children. I may not be the worlds best mother but I know the role that I play in my childrens life for them to be a represenative of my teaching.
Environment has nothing to do with this failure, you can rise above your circumstances. Slavery’s past has nothing to do with this, it is the failure of several men and women to teach their children any thing and to hold them accountable for their actions.
Some people who believe that they are victims will always find a way to continually blame others for their choices in life, for those who believe this can not continue on with this mind-set.
I love the way people come to this site which was founded on the basis that the propaganda spewed about Black women in the media is as deadly and toxic as any other weapon of mass destruction.
I’m sticking with my point. There is a cultural DECAY lead, in part by the entertainment industry. With lots of other factors intermixed, but if you don’t think the glamorization of the sex industry and the “main streaming” of porn culture is playing a role in some of this. That’s fine.
Based on some of your comments, one has to wonder why the Germans wasted so much of their efforts on labeling, propaganda, and controlling mass media and the arts. I’ve stated several times that I ain’t trying to convince people anymore. Believe what you want to. Play the grasshopper to my ant.
To all you “rise above your circumstances” people, I am right there with you. I’m all about individual accountability, but if you want to act as if there are powerful forces at work with real financial incentives to exploit women, then you are just detached from reality. This isn’t about BET. Hell BET isn’t about BET. But keep trying to minimize the threat if it helps you sleep better at night.
““We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.”
SOnia Johnson
Some of y’all ain’t THOSE people!
G’night
This movie has already been done before. Its called “The Baby Sitters”, starring Katherine Waterston. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796302/
Nothing new here … just a slightly different setting I guess.
Sickening.
We never see this shit on CMT I’m just sayin!
Gina said, “I’m sticking with my point. There is a cultural DECAY lead, in part by the entertainment industry. With lots of other factors intermixed, but if you don’t think the glamorization of the sex industry and the “main streaming” of porn culture is playing a role in some of this. That’s fine.
Based on some of your comments, one has to wonder why the Germans wasted so much of their efforts on labeling, propaganda, and controlling mass media and the arts. I’ve stated several times that I ain’t trying to convince people anymore. Believe what you want to. Play the grasshopper to my ant.”
In my not-so-humble opinion, people are minimizing the harm done by popular Negro entertainment because they LOVE that mess, are addicted to it, and are unwilling to give ANY of it up. This is why there’s the knee-jerk reaction of deflecting causation away from popular Negro entertainment, and toward anybody (parents, the children themselves, whoever) and anything (spiritual defects, etc.) else.
If the mass media is so unimportant and lacking in influence, then why are most Black folks literally addicted to it?
How many Black people have ever gone a single day, much less longer, without watching tv? How many of us have ever gone a single day without listening to the radio? Very, very few.
We now have a situation where, in many Black homes, the tv is literally turned on for 24 hours a day, everyday whenever people are in the house. Many of us have homes where the tv AND music are constantly blasting simultaneously.
Not to mention that for the past 40 years, ever-increasing numbers of us have used tv as a baby-sitter for our children.
I’ve seen lots of Black children and adults that have the knee-jerk reflex of turning on the tv whenever they enter a room. Even when they have no intention of actively watching whatever is on.
Addicted people will always find justifications for defending and keeping their “stash” of popular Negro entertainment.
Gina makes a very good point. It really IS the culture. If someone got up on stage at the Apollo in 1960 with their pants hanging down and spewing obscenities, they would be booed off the stage.
Today the unacceptable has become the acceptable and that is the problem.
I am shocked by the comments regarding it’s not just BET’s fault that kids learn the behavior of a pimp or prostitute.
I have to wonder have you guys been under a rock or something? On this blog alone Gina has featured how media plays a tremendous role and influence on tweens and teens.
I myself have posted on how girls learn to become these sexual scripts. Another poster mentioned the GEM program suggest that you view the DVD.
Interesting that I reading a book called “Motivating and Preparing Black Youth to Work” by Dr Jawanza Kunjunfu. Although the book was written in 1986 it would seem as if time stood still.
Here’s a passage from Neil Postman who wrote “Disappearance of Childhood”…..
Children have command over speech at the age of seven. The printing press created a new definition of adulthood, based on reading competence. In an oral world where information is disseminated more through television then than the printed word, first literacy disappears. The second is that education disappears. The third is that shame disappears. And fourth as a consequence of the other three is that childhood disappears.
Again this was written in 1986! The real hard factor is getting parents and caregivers to realize that they have the control. Scratch that the real hurdle is getting parent and caregivers to change their behavior.
I strongly suggest that people see the youtube video’s of Dr. Jawanza speaking to teachers back in the 80’s and again it seems like the issues have just stood still.
http://midsouthblack.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/countering-the-conspiracy-to-destroy-black-boys/
Sidenote…the video are out of order after you get through the fourth one so you have kinda of piece it together. But it’s well worth it!
As much as I hate the degrading rappers, you can watch BET 24 hours a day and you will not learn how to pimp.
I don’t know, Naima – I’m not sure there’s a huge difference in paying some women (and sometimes not) to be thisclose to naked and shoving a camera darn near up their azzes while calling them b!tches and hos and paying some women to hit the street corner, run tricks, and are regarded as b!tches and hos. Heck, based on the videos I saw before I stopped watching so much TV, the women on the street corner have more of their bodies covered than the women in the videos. At the end of the day, both groups of women are paid (or not) for sexual exploitation/degradation. The rapper producing/starring in the video is a pimp more or less because he probably gets most (or all) of the cash, despite the women doing all the “work.” How is it different?
And, WORD to what Gina said in her last comment.
The whole thing with women, sex and money is just a very complicated topic.
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:
“Until you understand White Supremacy – what it is and how it works – everything else…will only confuse you.”
Neely Fuller
i sincerely don’t understand why black folks think they’re NOT more powerful than the media WHEN IT COMES TO BLACK CHILDREN!!!!!!!
for me i always focus on the parents because they’re the main ones responsible for their children. the way i think is very simple, i’m just using my common sense combined with my innate knowledge of basic human behavior. as far back as the ice age, parents were responsible for their children. when children misbehave, people held the parents accountable. now, instead, people are blaming outside sources, it just doesn’t make any sense to me.
i know the media sucks, ‘bet’ DEFINITELY sucks BUT i don’t think they’re to blame for this nonsense. i personally grew up watching bet, maybe cause i’m not AA, but i never felt defined by the images i saw. also i had stronger influences in my life (such as my GUARDIANS, not even my parents!!!!) i don’t watch it now and agree that it’s disgusting (to say the least), but it’s a business, and just like any other business, they’re just trying to make money. i think black people are getting a bit too comfortable at blaming this, that and the other for their shortcomings. i’ve never heard other races shout ‘it’s the media’ whenever something goes down with the culture. everybody has to do their part, and raising your kids properly is the biggest impact the average person can have, it’s just that simply as far as i’m concerned. and for me, that’s why i can’t stand AA black men cause i feel they are doing a lot of damage to the AA culture/people by not supporting their children (financially, being protectors,being men). when AA women have to work all day to provide for their kids, who is nuturing their children, who is teaching manners to their children, who is providing their kids with love and attention? black children are human, not animals, they need a lot of attention to thrive!!!! screw BET, lets talk about the lack of care many black children are going through nowadays, that’s the real issue
Mary
Do you think that AA men do not want jobs? Do you think AA men want the women to be solely responsible for our children? Are all AA men irresponsible in said manner, or is it just MOST? If it’s just most AA men, why? Are we stupid? Are we naturally lazy? or are we just a bunch of no good black men? What should be done to these AA men?
This is not to say that white youth culture is perfect and wonderful. HOWEVER, how come I see these more wholesome things like “High School The Musical,” The Jonas Brothers, and Hannah Montana marketed to the mainstream, and this Souljah Boy child and stuff like it, marketed for our children? When my children told me what Souljah Boy was singing about when he was talking about “Crank That,” I didn’t clutch my pearls – I ate them.
We allowed basically pornography to be sold as “legitimate Black street culture” by hustlers of all colors and both genders. I heard a debate on NPR where it was said that women run BET, MTV and many of the record labels that spew this venom. Debra Lee, I know about. Anybody else? It’s time we specifically target the men and women ruining our culture. Name names, y’all.
Thank you Mary for reminding us that the subject of this discussion is prostituted CHILDREN, age 13-16, beneath the age of consent to having sex.
“i sincerely don’t understand why black folks think they’re NOT more powerful than the media WHEN IT COMES TO BLACK CHILDREN!!!!!!!”
The name of this blog is WHAT ABOUT OUR DAUGHTERS!
I read it out of concern for “Our Daughters” yours and mine!
I am DISMAYED when readers blame BET, or the Hip Hop Culture or the parents – who themselves
may be alcoholic, or addicted, or overworked, and just can’t cope!
I am DISMAYED when women of color turn their heads away from their little sisters on the street corner or in the strip club, and call them sluts!
I don’t have to remind you that when you are too young to consent to sex, it is rape! These young girls are being raped on a daily basis!
Almost all of these underage girls have pimps.
Almost all of these underage girls are subject to beatings from the pimp and violence from the customers.
If you watch the GEMS movie, March 03, on Showtime,
you will hear one of the girls tell how her pimp shot and killed another girl in front of her, for some small infraction (like not bringing in the money!)
Gina says: “”We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.” (Sonia Johnson)
Watch the GEMS video – VERY YOUNG GIRLS
on SHOWTIME (March 03.)
http://www.gems-girls.org/girlsarenotforsale.html
See what you can do to help MENTOR these girls and support organizations like GEMS in your community! It’s easier to help the children when they are underage and the child welfare law is there to protect them.
In many cases, the consequences of women of color turning their heads and doing nothing, is to sentence these girls to years of debilitating drug addiction and exploitation
Here is the real story of a child who started at drinking and stripping at 13 or 14, and wound up spending NINETEEN years as a drug addicted prostitute, until someone cared enough to help her.
http://www.amazon.com/Listening-Olivia-Violence-Prostitution-Northeastern/dp/1555535968/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235763785&sr=8-1
I hope Olivia’s biography, and the GEMS movie, will help you to think twice, before turning your head away from prostituted children!
During my time in Thailand this summer, I came across many women and girls who we being held as sex workers within the bars and brothels in Bangkok that catered specifically to foreign tourists, all while hardly speaking much in the way of the English language.
They knew limited words and phrases, but the ones that they did know were the ones that we taught to them or tattooed on them by their captors and pimps. You can imagine what those words and phrases were, of course: the ones that the pimps and bar owners knew would catch the attention of the foreigners because they are cat calls and names that the men will recognize as familiar.
And where do you think these pimps gather this knowledge? Where do you think they learn these words and capture these stereotypes and ideas from?
BET and MTV.
They play into our ongoing, lighthearted affair with pimp culture and use it for their profit and these women’s exploitation.
And if this pimp culture of the United States has that much affect on the prostitution and sex industry on the other side of the world, we are just plain ignorant to think that it does not affect, ten fold, the same that we have here.
I don’t think it does us much good to engage in a blame game of trying to figure out who is more responsible for atrocities like this.
Yes, culture is to blame for perpetuating oppressive stereotypes.
Yes, parents are to blame for not taking more of an active role in their children’s lives and providing necessary accountability.
Yes, the government is to blame for keeping vulnerable people in systems and cycles of poverty, and for not treating this issue with as much importance as it should.
Yes, each one of us, as individuals, are to blame for not stopping to help one of our sisters when we see the need, choosing instead to label her as less than we are and walking the other direction in disgust.
It’s multifaceted. It’s complicated. It’s heartbreaking. And it must be attacked on every front if the war is to be won. But freedom is always worth the battle.
This sight might be “What About OUR Daughters” but the post is subtitled “…16 Year Old Girls Accused of Being Pimps.” All I heard from Mary is how much she dislikes Black Men for not being MEN! I have a problem with this conversation, and many like it, being diverted to the “Men Ain’t Sh!t” logic. I would appreciate it if you do some research on White Supremacy – what it is and how it works – before you start throwing bricks. I believe you will see that Black men are in just as bad and good of shape as the rest of the Balck people in this country. AND I got news for you – WE DID NOT CAUSE IT!!!!
We are told not to make excuses. Everyone else has one but we can’t make one! Okay! We are told that everyone else is our victims but we are not victims! Okay! We even get told that all of us would be better off if SOME of us would “GO EXTINCT!” Okay! I understand the hurt of black women and girls and I TOO want it to stop…but it never will if you won’t look at the real problem! You’ll just keep running around in circles blaming the map for not getting you there! Jeez…wake up!
Normally I alow you to wrk ou spats among yourselves. however…
@justme please review my post about ppls motivations inth comments section. there are numerous other comments OTHER THAN Mary’s why fixate on her?
@mary thisblog wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for a Black man, my Daddy. ..who reads thi blog bythe way. I dn’t know how thspost became about your dysfunctional relationship with men, but it isn’t.
@everybody try to stay on topic or we can just end the comments all together.
It’s not hard for me to imagine what types of homes those poor girls grew up in. I grew up around black girls (who were fatherless with mothers that worked crazy hours), those girls basically prostituted themselves for free. They had hours of non-supervision and used it to ‘interact’ with men. However, they were not on the street corner or appearing in documentaries, so nobody cares. I’m just saying, minors need supervision. I know BET/ media sucks, but it sucks even more that many black parents do not provide guidance for their children.
As I mentioned before and elsewhere, it is very strange to me that black folks think that other strategies other cultures use to survive, for some bizarre reason (cause we are so special, lol), it won’t work for us. An intact family is society’s greatest resource, period!!! It’s hard to call a family intact when one parent is missing and the other works all the time, and this is norm now for black families. I’m just saying…..
Many people (online especially) will be surprised to hear that my adopted father is by far the most influential person in my life. I was raised with an aunt and her husband. They adopted me, so I was fortunate enough to grow up in a stable family environment with morals, values, the whole nine. The way I think came from my adopted father, he is not the average bm, in Africa or America. I would definitely not be ‘Mary’ without him. That……HOWEVER, does not mean I will close my eyes or deny what I see when it comes to other bm. Nope, sorry, can’t do it. people can say I hate all bm or say that I have a “dysfunctional relationship with men”………. whatever, my ‘dysfunction’ has led me to a great non – dbrbm, so I’m blessed and content. I will keep on snarling at bm until this brutal war they have against bw and children ends, cause at the end of the day I’m a bw and the children I will have one day will be considered black. I’m sure not all bm are bad, but the ‘good’ ones are not doing much to ensure that the ‘bad’ ones do not hurt bw and children, so I really don’t care about hurting the ‘good’ ones’ feelings.
peace
The WAR you speak of @Mary is misdirected. Black men do not intentionally war against black women. For us to war with our own women would mean we destroy ourselves. That is the misdirection because we (bm) – like you and so many other bw – don’t want to address, fight, or even look at, the real culprit. It’s easy to blame a black man, but I didn’t hear you give these 16 year old girls a hard time for pimping. I don’t believe the young girls should be blamed but don’t blame men either. The disfunction you speak of would have to be exclusive to black boys from birth for black men to be responsible – but black children are born geniuses; something happens to them later on in life that makes them disfunctional. If you bothered to check thelildiva4u’s link to Jawanza Kunjufu you might find a clue on why this is happening. Not just Jawanza Kunjufu’s book series “Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys” is relevant though, there are many other’s. Read:
“The Isis Papers” by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing;
Nathan McCall’s “Makes Me Wanna Holler”;
“Kill Them Before They Grow” by Micheal Porter;
“Blueprint For Black Power” by Amos Wilson;
“The Destruction of Black Civilization” Chancellor Williams
….and many others! I suggest anything by Dr. John Henrick Clarke. But notice, you won’t find very many of these books at Barnes & Nobles or even your local Library.
Sorry for picking on you – you just made a statement that, at the time, made my cup overflow – I had to address it. @gem2001 thanks for your patience and I apologize to you also – please except ladies.
I’m sure not all bm are bad, but the ‘good’ ones are not doing much to ensure that the ‘bad’ ones do not hurt bw and children, so I really don’t care about hurting the ‘good’ ones’ feelings.
peace
Exactly how are the ‘good’ ones supposed to stop black women from pursuing and bearing children with the bad ones to the extent that they do? Can we tie you up or lock you in rooms? Can we begin arranged marriages?
Most black men are decent men. People who say otherwise don’t know what they are talking about. The problem is that a minority of trifling black men father a disproportionate number of black children. Trying to criticize a black woman for her choices in men very often results in reactions from them so volatile that it is not worth the effort. Thus, the good black men concentrate on their own families and children and hope to protect them from the negative influences outside.
@everybody BUT Mary.
If war is what you want to wage, it is idiotic to intentionally turn down assistance from allies. To declare something about ALL Black men is to basically forclose an entire group of potential allies.
You can wage a war, but its not a very smart strategy.
Gina, there are simply some sisters who simply strive on this gender war and are going to wage it no matter what because doing so seems to give them meaning. Thus, they ignore the potential allies and make sweeping generalizations about “most” or “all” black men as opposed to identifying important assistance:
http://www.ashafamilyservices.com/brothers_against_domestic_violen.htm
http://www.petitiononline.com/rkelly/petition.html
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?rkelly
How sad is that when a child has the where-with-it-all to victimize another child for profit? It’s good to bring this to the attention of the masses. Agreed, we are all outraged – but what will people do about it? Apathy is a horrible thing that’s a festering cancer in the black community. To the folks engaged in BW/BM gender war – come on already…just as some men aren’t quite right, there are some women that fit that description as well. Thanks to the other posters for links to sites – very infomative and helpful.
@ Just Me,
I never thanked you for introducing me to Dr. Welsing’s teachings. Thank you.
Anytime, Miriam!
The movie about our prostituted baby sisters, – VERY YOUNG GIRLS, is reviewed, with a link to the trailer, in this weeks Huffington Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcia-g-yerman/ivery-young-girlsi-looks_b_170843.html
Konjufu’s thoughts on Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black boys, and history as presented by Dr. Welsing and Dr. John Henri Clarke, Dr. Amos Wilson, and Chancellor Williams are all good, but they don’t address the problem directly.
Watch the movie, hear the girls speak for themselves.
In the movie, which you can still get on one of the girls is beaten and thrown out of a moving car, while another is killed.
Help them to find options, before it is too late.
Don’t raise your hands and look away! Watch the movie tonight, if you have SHOWTIME, (it’s not X rated,) and see if you can offer options for these girls -
wow
we couldn’t make this stuff up.
Parents, where are you?