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November 29, 2010
FOOD FOR THOUGHT....
At a certain age in your life (when you reach true maturity, not just when you are "grown") you learn how to evaluate circumstances and situations in a different light. If you are past the age of 25 and still dealing with the same shit you dealt with in high school or college, YOU are the problem. Petty, insecure, im...mature, no good people attract petty, insecure, immature, no good people....
RAPE STATISTICS ARE OUT OF CONTROL IN SOUTH AFRICA....
A study commissioned by the Medical Research Foundation, a group funded by the South African government, has wielded some disturbing findings about violence against women. According to the study, more than 1-in-3 men of Johannesburg have committed rape at some point in their lives. Roughly seven percent of the men sampled admitted to participating in a gang rape.
The study also found that over 51 percent of the 511 women surveyed had been victims of violence from men. Also, 78 percent of men admitted to committing a violent act against a woman. One fourth of the women in the survey said that they’d been raped, but only about four percent of these rapes are reported to police.
These findings are similar to a 2008 study that found that 28 percent of the men in Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces had committed rape against a woman or girl. Also, one-third of the men said they did not feel guilty for what they’d done. Two-thirds of the men claimed to have committed rape out of a sense of entitlement, and others raped out of boredom or a desire to punish women who’d rejected them.
The study’s author, Rachel Jewkes, said that apartheid may have played a role in creating a culture in which violence against women has been trivialized.
“Apartheid has contributed to culture of impunity surrounding rape in South Africa,” said Jewkes. She also says that men who experienced trauma or were abused were much more likely to commit rape than other men.
November 23, 2010
November 22, 2010
ONE WISH, LAST WISH....DUDE YOU ARE OUT OF WISHES....
THEN....
WHY DIDN'T HE WISH FOR BETTER SINGING SKILLS?
SOOOO GOOD I HAD TO REVISIT THIS POST.....(MORE REASONT O LOVE FOOTBALL PLAYERS)
NOTICE HOW ALL EYES ARE ON HIM!!!
November 17, 2010
IGNORANCE AT IT'S BEST....(OR WORST)
"Yo, I want to let people know that I'm tough, and strong, and wild like a animal. But I also want people to know that I'm gangsta and powerful and I make things happen like a mob boss. Hmmmm... I'm like a gorilla! But like a really smart one with mafia connections like a Don! Don Gorilla! Donnie G!"
Fail.
TO CANT SEEM TO KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT....EVER
Terrell Owens went on his national TV show and lobbed insults at former Philadelphia Eagles teammates Donovan McNabb and Andy Reid on Tuesday night. Owens also implied that he was behind several Twitter messages he first blamed on “his brother” that ripped McNabb.
Then Owens had a back-handed compliment for his former Eagles’ coach, Reid. Owens is now playing for the 2-7 Cincinnati Bengals, and while putting up big numbers, his reluctance to catch passes in the middle of the field has cost the Bengals dearly.
“My thing is I don’t have anything against Donovan. Trust me I’m all happy that he got a $78 million contract but how do they justify the $78 million contract when just two weeks ago the head coach just benched the guy because he wasn’t playing well or couldn’t conduct the two-minute offense, that’s all I’m saying,” Owens said.
On Monday night, Owens said McNabb didn’t deserve his contract. Owens went on to say Reid made McNabb look good.
“I don’t know how much I can say about Andy Reid, this guy is a mastermind. Look at this guy on the sidelines, he looks like the Pillsbury doughboy but this guy is very smart,” McNabb said.
McNabb had already responded to Owens’ comments.
“It’s unbelievable how they can comment on what I’m doing over here,” McNabb said about Owens on Tuesday. McNabb also said Cincinnati quarterback Carson Palmer makes more money than he does and cited the Bengals’ 2-7 record.
Owens also went out of his way to praise Michael Vick on Monday night.
November 16, 2010
COLLEGE PRESIDENTS GET PAID EVEN WHEN THE SCHOOL IS STRUGGLING....
The Chronicle on Higher Education reported that Walter Broadnax received $1.1 million for the 2008-2009 fiscal year, his last at Clark Atlanta. That put him among the 30 top-paid presidents of private colleges in the nation, the Chronicle said.
The news outraged current and former professors, among whom Broadnax had been deeply unpopular.
“That is criminal,” said retired professor Bob Holmes. “On what basis did the board of trustees agree to that? It’s not a golden parachute because he didn’t have a contract after five years. … The alumni association should file a lawsuit against the board for malfeasance.”
Faculty had overwhelmingly voted for a resolution of “no confidence” in Broadnax in 2007.
The embattled Broadnax announced his retirement from the college in February 2008 and he left that July after six years at the helm. When Broadnax arrived in 2002, he also inherited a university beset by financial struggles and was credited with stabilizing the college’s enrollment and its finances.
Broadnax contended his compensation package was closer to $800,000 than $1.1 million although he was unable to give an exact figure. He said he was guaranteed a retirement package when he became president because he had left a secure position at American University and would have to make unpopular decisions at Clark Atlanta.He is currently the Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at Syracuse University in New York.
The 66-year-old said the university had drained its endowment of $40 million for operating expenses before he came aboard and was teetering on bankruptcy. He had to to fire faculty and eliminate programs.
“What you see is the honoring of a contract,” he said of his compensation. “They (the trustees) understood it was giong to be a fairly rough road if I did the things that needed to be done
“The only reason Clark Atlanta is still around is because of the steps we took and they were tough.”
Clark Atlanta spokeswoman Donna Brock said the reported payout to Broadnax of $1,158,537 was correct and part of it was contractual. She didn’t know the amount.
Brock declined to provide the rationale for the payout but said there was an error on the college’s tax returns because the university had lumped together Broadnax’s base pay — which she said was approximately $305,000 — with a contractual bonus and payments related to retirement.
November 11, 2010
JUSTICE FINALLY SERVED....
The Georgia Department of Corrections will not house the woman convicted of causing the deadly Easter crash and her mother who was convicted of covering up the crime in the same prison.
Officials with the Fulton County Jail told Channel 2’s Tom Regan that Aimee Michael, 24, and her mother, Sheila Michael, will each serve their sentences in separate state prisons.
Michael, who was sentenced to serve 36 years in prison, was transferred to the Metro State Woman’s prison on Constitution Rd in Southeast Atlanta.
Sheila Michael, 53, who was ordered to serve eight years in prison, is now at Lee Arrendale State Prison north of Gainesville. Her husband, Aimee’s father, will have to drive 5 hours from Atlanta to visit his wife.
Last week Michael was found guilty of five counts of vehicular homicide, one count of failure to maintain lane and one count of serious injury by vehicle, hit and run.
Police say Michael was on an ice cream run on April 12, 2009 when she caused a horrific accident that killed 5 people, including 3 children, and injured a woman on Camp Creek Parkway.
Michael fled the scene of the accident but she was arrested 10 days later.
November 10, 2010
CAN YOU SAY AHHHH....(AT LEAST HE HAS GOOD TASTE)
Rumors of bisexuality continue to hound R&B heartthrob Trey Songz who is now being linked to a young male record label employee!!!
Bossip sources tell us there is a new man in Trey’s life: 24-year-old Brandin Deida, an employee of RocNation.
Our source tells us that Brandin is an NYU graduate who worked at Sony in their A&R department before getting his gig at RocNation. From what we hear he’s quite a looker. He’s described as being a 6’4 lightskinned young man who sports waves and a few tattoos.
According to a Bossip inside source, Trey and Brandin met in Los Angeles on September 12 — a day before the MTV Video Music Awards.
“They’ve been inseparable ever since,” says the source, “but everything is very lowkey.”
Our source tells us the two have avoided being photographed together thus far, but Trey is always visiting Brandin at the 1411 Roc building in NYC where he works since Trey has spent a great deal of time in New York since finishing his Beacon Theater dates on 10/14 and 10/15 when his tour with Monica wrapped up.
“Trey is in Seattle right now preparing for the OMG Tour which starts tomorrow,” the insider tells Bossip, “and Brandin is there also, presumably on “business”.”
Apparently Trey and Brandin have been trying hard to cover their tracks and have a set routine for the hotel stays. The pair are currently staying at the same Seattle hotel where Brandin has a room to himself and Trey does as well. Our source tells us that despite the separate rooms, Trey and Brandin often end up being together for the night.
“Everything they do is very elaborate,” the source says of their attempt to cover up.”They don’t ride in the same cars either.”
From what we hear Trey is also about to sign a major deal with Roc Nation next year, which seems likely considering his strong relationship with Jay-Z, who signed him to a Rocawear campaign after their tour earlier this year. Landing at RocNation means that Brandin
will undoubtedly be working a lot closer with Trey and it will become even more difficult to conceal their secret relationship.
“The two are very private and scared about anyone finding out about their relationship, but it’s just a matter of time until things start coming out,” Bossip’s source predicts.
November 9, 2010
"FOR COLORED GIRLS" ONLY SHOWS BLACK MEN IN A NEGATIVE LIGHT....(FOR THE MOST PART)
A rapist, a war crazed, drunken, child murdering father and an HIV-infected husband on the “down low” are all black male characters you will find in Tyler Perry’s film “For Colored Girls”.
Before the film even finished production there was already talk about the impact it would make, that it would follow in the footsteps of “The Color Purple” by beating the pulp out of the black male image.
Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy gives the film a hard look in his latest essay “For Black Men Who Have Considered Homicide After Watching Another Tyler Perry Film
“Don’t laugh,” says Shadow and Act, an online publication about black films and filmmakers. ” ‘For Colored Girls,’ an Oscar contender?”
Oscar for what?
In the category for best infection of a black woman with a sexually transmitted disease that renders her infertile. . . . And the winner is: black man.
For best down-low, double-dealing husband who has sex with wife while sneaking around having sex with men on the streets. . . . And the winner is: black man.
For best portrayal of a guy who at first seems nice but turns out to be a rapist. . . . And the winner is – OMG, his third of the night – black man!
“You will want to know that two kids get thrown out the window by their father,” wrote Jane Nosonchuk for Hamptonroads.com. “The scene is well done.”
Do I hear another Oscar nomination?
“The men in the movie are all bad guys except for the cop,” Nosonchuk wrote. “They are a means to an end rather than any lead characters.
We see where Milloy is coming from and even his argument allows for the fact that Perry isn’t the only one guilty of the cinematic “lynching” of the black male image.
To be fair, folks familiar with the original Ntozake Shange choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who’ve Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf” should’ve known what to expect. After all — we read about Beau Willy.
But Ntozake Shange’s play did not have HIV or the down low and it’s characters were identified by color, not name — so if Tyler was able to make those kinds of changes — why not allow for more than just the glimmer of hope for the black man (the glimmer being Hill Harper with his small part and few lines).
For those who have seen the film — Do you think Tyler fairly portrayed black men in “For Colored Girls”?
For those who have not seen the film — what role did the inevitable black male bashing play in your decision not to support “For Colored Girls”.
For everyone — Do you think Hollywood doesn’t want to allow for more positive black male roles in film? Should black filmmakers be more dedicated to positive portrayals?
Before the film even finished production there was already talk about the impact it would make, that it would follow in the footsteps of “The Color Purple” by beating the pulp out of the black male image.
Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy gives the film a hard look in his latest essay “For Black Men Who Have Considered Homicide After Watching Another Tyler Perry Film
“Don’t laugh,” says Shadow and Act, an online publication about black films and filmmakers. ” ‘For Colored Girls,’ an Oscar contender?”
Oscar for what?
In the category for best infection of a black woman with a sexually transmitted disease that renders her infertile. . . . And the winner is: black man.
For best down-low, double-dealing husband who has sex with wife while sneaking around having sex with men on the streets. . . . And the winner is: black man.
For best portrayal of a guy who at first seems nice but turns out to be a rapist. . . . And the winner is – OMG, his third of the night – black man!
“You will want to know that two kids get thrown out the window by their father,” wrote Jane Nosonchuk for Hamptonroads.com. “The scene is well done.”
Do I hear another Oscar nomination?
“The men in the movie are all bad guys except for the cop,” Nosonchuk wrote. “They are a means to an end rather than any lead characters.
We see where Milloy is coming from and even his argument allows for the fact that Perry isn’t the only one guilty of the cinematic “lynching” of the black male image.
To be fair, folks familiar with the original Ntozake Shange choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who’ve Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf” should’ve known what to expect. After all — we read about Beau Willy.
But Ntozake Shange’s play did not have HIV or the down low and it’s characters were identified by color, not name — so if Tyler was able to make those kinds of changes — why not allow for more than just the glimmer of hope for the black man (the glimmer being Hill Harper with his small part and few lines).
For those who have seen the film — Do you think Tyler fairly portrayed black men in “For Colored Girls”?
For those who have not seen the film — what role did the inevitable black male bashing play in your decision not to support “For Colored Girls”.
For everyone — Do you think Hollywood doesn’t want to allow for more positive black male roles in film? Should black filmmakers be more dedicated to positive portrayals?
SAD BUT TRUE...CHECK THE STATISTICS....
A new study shows that way more Black babies are being born to unwed mothers in America. That number is much crazier than you may realize.
Children of unmarried mothers of any race are more likely to perform poorly in school, go to prison, use drugs, be poor as adults, and have their own children out of wedlock.
The black community’s 72 percent rate eclipses that of most other groups: 17 percent of Asians, 29 percent of whites, 53 percent of Hispanics and 66 percent of Native Americans were born to unwed mothers in 2008, the most recent year for which government figures are available. The rate for the overall U.S. population was 41 percent.
“The girls don’t think they have to get married. I tell them children deserve a mama and a daddy. They really do,” [Houston OB/GYN Natalie] Carroll says.
“A mama can’t give it all. And neither can a daddy, not by themselves,” Carroll says. “Part of the reason is because you can only give that which you have. A mother cannot give all that a man can give. A truly involved father figure offers more fullness to a child’s life.”
There are simple arguments for why so many black women have children without marriage.
The legacy of segregation, the logic goes, means blacks are more likely to attend inferior schools. This creates a high proportion of blacks unprepared to compete for jobs in today’s economy, where middle-class industrial work for unskilled laborers has largely disappeared.
The drug epidemic sent disproportionate numbers of black men to prison, and crushed the job opportunities for those who served their time. Women don’t want to marry men who can’t provide for their families, and welfare laws created a financial incentive for poor mothers to stay single.
If you remove these inequalities, some say, the 72 percent will decrease.
In September, Christelyn Karazin, who is black, marshaled 100 other writers and activists for the online movement No Wedding No Womb, which she calls “a very simplified reduction of a very complicated issue.”
“I just want better for us,” Karazin says. “I have four kids to raise in this world. It’s about what kind of world do we want.”
“We’ve spent the last 40 years discussing the issues of how we got here. How much more discussion, how many more children have to be sacrificed while we still discuss?”
Amy Wax, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, argues that even though discrimination caused blacks’ present problems, only black action can cure them.
“The black community has fallen into this horribly dysfunctional equilibrium” with unwed mothers, Wax says in an interview. “It just doesn’t work.”
“Blacks as a group will never be equal while they have this situation going on, where the vast majority of children do not have fathers in the home married to their mother, involved in their lives, investing in them, investing in the next generation.”
“The 21st century for the black community is about building human capital,” says Wax, who is white. “That is the undone business. That is the unmet need. That is the completion of the civil rights mission.”
NEW BIRTH CHURCH RESPONDS....
This week was the church’s turn to answer to those sexual abuse allegations. And they pretty much threw Bishop Daddy under the bus.
Responding on Monday to four lawsuits alleging that Bishop Eddie Long coerced young men into sexual relations, New Birth Missionary Baptist Church acknowledged that the accusers accompanied the pastor on trips but said it could not confirm or deny whether anything inappropriate took place.
The LongFellows Youth Academy, the church’s mentoring program for males 13 through 18, also filed responses. Long is identified as the founder and chief executive of the academy, which is named in three of the lawsuits.
The Lithonia megachurch, in its response filed in DeKalb County State Court Monday, acknowledges that the men accompanied Long on trips, in some cases overseas, but said it couldn’t explain the nature of relationships that may have existed between Long and the men.
The church said Anthony Flagg, one of the accusers, traveled with Long on trips to Tuskegee, Ala., New York and Las Vegas, but couldn’t provide further details. It said it could not “admit or deny” allegations that the two were intimate.
The response said “the church understands that Bishop Long often shared hotel rooms with members of the congregation while traveling,” but it couldn’t say whether Flagg shared a room with Long.The response was filed by attorneys with the Atlanta law firm Drew Eckl Farnham.
November 8, 2010
A SIN AND A SHAME....SENSELESS ACT OF VIOLENCE...
The mother of a Douglas County teenager beaten to death during a Saturday night house party called her only son “my best friend” and “a ray of sunshine through every dark cloud that anyone had.”
Bobby Tillman, 18, was beaten to death after a party early Sunday in Douglas County.
“He was an angel here on Earth, and I was blessed to be his mother,” Monique Rivarde said Monday of 18-year-old Bobby Tillman.
Rivarde spoke to the media just after a Douglas County judge denied bond for the four men charged with the murder of her son.
“I just miss him and I just want justice done for him,” she said. “All I want to say is he was very strong, so I’m going to be strong for him.”
Rivarde said she prays that her son’s death was not in vain. “Something will be done about these children attacking each other for nothing,” she said.
Douglas County District Attorney David McDade, talking about Tillman’s death, said, “senseless is the only word I can describe. Young people that had a life ahead of them, on both sides.
“This is an absolutely unprovoked, senseless killing by young people killing another young man for no reason, no motive,” McDade said.
Douglas County Sheriff Phil Miller echoed McDade’s thoughts, saying, “it doesn’t get any more tragic than that.”
Tillman died of blunt force trauma to the head and chest, Coroner Randy Daniel told the AJC on Monday.
The teen was beaten and stomped to death after he walked by his attackers at the wrong time, Miller said Sunday.
Tillman died before he could be transported to the hospital early Sunday, Miller said.
Four people have been arrested in connection with the teen's death.
The four arrested were identified as Quantez Devonta Mallory, 18, Horace Damon Coleman, 19, Emmanuel Benjamin Boykins, 18, and Tracen Lamar Franklin, 19.
All four appeared Monday morning before Judge Robert James in Douglas Superior Court, where they were ordered held without bond.
They are being held in the Douglas County Jail, charged with murder. Three were taken into custody at the scene of the beating early Sunday, and Franklin turned himself in later in the day, Miller said.
What started out as a small party at a home on Independence Drive ended up with between 60 and 80 people, Miller said. (Read a neighbor's account.)
“Some very responsible parents let their daughters have a party at their house, and there were only 10 people expected to come," Miller said.
The parents asked the party-goers to leave, and a fight began between two girls outside the home, Miller said.
One of the females hit a male, who said he wouldn't hit a girl but would hit the next male that walked by, Miller said. The 5-feet-6-inch, 124-pound Tillman was the next male. Several people then joined in the attack on Tillman, investigators said.
Tillman was still breathing as deputies arrived at the scene, Miller said. Deputies administered CPR to the teen, who did not survive.
"It'll bring tears to your eyes," Miller said. "It's just so sad."
Four people were arrested, and investigators do not believe there will be additional arrests, Miller said. The homeowners are not expected to face charges, he said. No drugs or alcohol were involved, Miller said.
"They [the parents] were doing the very best they could," Miller said. "The situation got out of hand."
Tillman's death came as a shock to friends and former classmates of the 2010 graduate of Chapel Hill High School. Some, such as 18-year-old Adrienne Anderson, learned of his death on Facebook.
Anderson said Tillman didn't attend Chapel Hill very long, but made a lot of friends before he graduated.
“He never bothered anybody," Anderson said. "He was an all-around nice person.”
Anderson said she had planned to attend the party Saturday night but changed her plans. "I was supposed to be going, but I'm glad I wasn't there," she said.
Witnesses were taken by bus to the sheriff's office, Miller said. Channel 2 Action News reported the NAACP was questioning whether investigators followed proper procedures in questioning the witnesses and whether they were allowed to call their parents.
Miller defended the deputies, saying they were just doing their jobs.
"I had six people to interview 57 people," Miller told the AJC on Monday. "I didn't violate anybody's rights. We loaded them onto a bus, there was heat on the bus, they were allowed bathroom breaks and we interviewed 57 people between 2:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. Sunday. Our goal was to find out who murdered this young man."
Miller said his investigators were somewhat hampered by a local attorney, "who came up there and advised witnesses -- not suspects, witnesses -- not to talk to us."
"It's not about the NAACP, it's not about the sheriff's office, it's about the murder of a nice, young man who was murdered and it was not provoked," Miller said.
"I apologize if I offended anyone, but I'm not required by law to notify parents," the sheriff told the AJC. "If the parents were so interested, why were those kids out after midnight?"
Bobby Tillman, 18, was beaten to death after a party early Sunday in Douglas County.
“He was an angel here on Earth, and I was blessed to be his mother,” Monique Rivarde said Monday of 18-year-old Bobby Tillman.
Rivarde spoke to the media just after a Douglas County judge denied bond for the four men charged with the murder of her son.
“I just miss him and I just want justice done for him,” she said. “All I want to say is he was very strong, so I’m going to be strong for him.”
Rivarde said she prays that her son’s death was not in vain. “Something will be done about these children attacking each other for nothing,” she said.
Douglas County District Attorney David McDade, talking about Tillman’s death, said, “senseless is the only word I can describe. Young people that had a life ahead of them, on both sides.
“This is an absolutely unprovoked, senseless killing by young people killing another young man for no reason, no motive,” McDade said.
Douglas County Sheriff Phil Miller echoed McDade’s thoughts, saying, “it doesn’t get any more tragic than that.”
Tillman died of blunt force trauma to the head and chest, Coroner Randy Daniel told the AJC on Monday.
The teen was beaten and stomped to death after he walked by his attackers at the wrong time, Miller said Sunday.
Tillman died before he could be transported to the hospital early Sunday, Miller said.
Four people have been arrested in connection with the teen's death.
The four arrested were identified as Quantez Devonta Mallory, 18, Horace Damon Coleman, 19, Emmanuel Benjamin Boykins, 18, and Tracen Lamar Franklin, 19.
All four appeared Monday morning before Judge Robert James in Douglas Superior Court, where they were ordered held without bond.
They are being held in the Douglas County Jail, charged with murder. Three were taken into custody at the scene of the beating early Sunday, and Franklin turned himself in later in the day, Miller said.
What started out as a small party at a home on Independence Drive ended up with between 60 and 80 people, Miller said. (Read a neighbor's account.)
“Some very responsible parents let their daughters have a party at their house, and there were only 10 people expected to come," Miller said.
The parents asked the party-goers to leave, and a fight began between two girls outside the home, Miller said.
One of the females hit a male, who said he wouldn't hit a girl but would hit the next male that walked by, Miller said. The 5-feet-6-inch, 124-pound Tillman was the next male. Several people then joined in the attack on Tillman, investigators said.
Tillman was still breathing as deputies arrived at the scene, Miller said. Deputies administered CPR to the teen, who did not survive.
"It'll bring tears to your eyes," Miller said. "It's just so sad."
Four people were arrested, and investigators do not believe there will be additional arrests, Miller said. The homeowners are not expected to face charges, he said. No drugs or alcohol were involved, Miller said.
"They [the parents] were doing the very best they could," Miller said. "The situation got out of hand."
Tillman's death came as a shock to friends and former classmates of the 2010 graduate of Chapel Hill High School. Some, such as 18-year-old Adrienne Anderson, learned of his death on Facebook.
Anderson said Tillman didn't attend Chapel Hill very long, but made a lot of friends before he graduated.
“He never bothered anybody," Anderson said. "He was an all-around nice person.”
Anderson said she had planned to attend the party Saturday night but changed her plans. "I was supposed to be going, but I'm glad I wasn't there," she said.
Witnesses were taken by bus to the sheriff's office, Miller said. Channel 2 Action News reported the NAACP was questioning whether investigators followed proper procedures in questioning the witnesses and whether they were allowed to call their parents.
Miller defended the deputies, saying they were just doing their jobs.
"I had six people to interview 57 people," Miller told the AJC on Monday. "I didn't violate anybody's rights. We loaded them onto a bus, there was heat on the bus, they were allowed bathroom breaks and we interviewed 57 people between 2:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. Sunday. Our goal was to find out who murdered this young man."
Miller said his investigators were somewhat hampered by a local attorney, "who came up there and advised witnesses -- not suspects, witnesses -- not to talk to us."
"It's not about the NAACP, it's not about the sheriff's office, it's about the murder of a nice, young man who was murdered and it was not provoked," Miller said.
"I apologize if I offended anyone, but I'm not required by law to notify parents," the sheriff told the AJC. "If the parents were so interested, why were those kids out after midnight?"
SOME MONDAY INSPIIRATION...(THERE IS HOPE)
High-school sophomore Ricky Smith has been collecting up to $15,000 an event in cover charges for hosting drug- and alcohol-free teen dance parties throughout the city.
Called “Lost Generation,” the series of parent-friendly parties attracts up to 500 teens from elite Manhattan public and private schools to lofts and clubs for a night of nonstop, juvenile booty-shaking.
“My goal was to monopolize the teen party business in New York City,” said Smith, who organized five megaparties this year.
Each party — advertised on Facebook and by individual promoters he recruited in dozens of schools — is staffed with professional bouncers who have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to booze, dope or fisticuffs.
“It’s like walking into a club — usually a lot of house music and popular music you’d hear on the radio,” he said. “Lots of dancing and, yes, fist-pumping.”
Music is provided by aspiring teen deejays.
Some older teens scoff at the whole concept, but for Smith, a sophomore at the Professional Performing Arts School, it just means better business to focus on 14- to 15-year-olds.
They like it, he said, because older teens aren’t around to intimidate them and parents, especially girls’ parents, feel it’s a safer environment.
Ricky said he doesn’t see a career in the club or party promotion business.
“I want to work in math or science, my strong subjects,” he said.
ANOTHER YOUNG BROTHER LOSES HIS LIFE DUE TO IGNORANCE...
This young mans name is Bobby Tillman. He was 18 years old and he lived in Douglasville, Georgia. Late Saturday night he was beaten and stomped to death by 4 cowards. Read the sad story after the jump.
What started out as a small party at a home on Independence Drive ended up with between 60 and 80 people, Miller said.
“Some very responsible parents let their daughters have a party at their house, and there were only 10 people expected to come,” Miller said.
The parents asked the party-goers to leave, and a fight began between two girls outside the home, Miller said.
One of the females hit a male, who said he wouldn’t hit a girl but would hit the next male that walked by, Miller said. The 5-feet-6-inch, 124-pound Tillman was the next male. Several people then joined in the attack on Tillman, investigators said.
Tillman was still breathing as deputies arrived at the scene, Miller said. Deputies administered CPR to the teen, who did not survive.
Now we agree that a man hitting a female is b*tch-made, but its JUST as b*tch-made to RANDOMLY pick a smaller kid to beat up! SMH
Four people have been arrested in connection with the teen’s death.
The four arrested were identified as Quantez Devonta Mallory, 18, Horace Damon Coleman, 19, Emmanuel Benjamin Boykins, 18, and Tracen Lamar Franklin, 19.
All four are being held in the Douglas County Jail, charged with murder. Three were taken into custody at the scene of the beating early Sunday, and Franklin turned himself in later in the day, Miller said.
Miller said all four would have their first court appearances before a Superior Court judge, likely late Monday morning.
November 5, 2010
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