I read one of my sisters notes on facebook and decided that i should post it in a place where anyone can read it, not just her friends. I believe in second chances probably more than others because we have 2 brothers who have been/are in jail. Our oldest brother was in jail for about 8 yrs. He has been out for a few years now and he has been able to rebuild his life....he has been able to move on. I hope that when my other brother gets out he is able to do the same. For some reason i can't seem to understand how some people have been so harsh with the whole MV case. Yes he was wrong; i undertstand some people care more about their precious pets than they do other people but goodness gracious the man deserves a second chance.....i've seen rapists go through less trouble than vick. Some of the same people who wish he could be put in a kennel and made to fight to his death are the same people who are oh so righteous and holy, but they are sleeping with someone elses boyfriend/girlfriend husband/wife. That, to me is just as wrong. I don't care to comment on her other topics right now because it would only make this post longer.....i'll add to this at another time.
ASHLEY SPEAKS: VICK.BROWN.GATES.OBAMA..The state of American Blackness
ASHLEY SPEAKS: VICK.BROWN.GATES.OBAMA..The state of American Blackness
First and foremost, I am glad that America has a penal system, in order for people to be judged and punished to the fullest extent of the law...and so on and so forth and blah blah blah. I am continually baffled by the things I see in the news. As a naive little black girl, growing up in Mississippi, and going away to college, I felt that criminals are punished and people move on with life. So why are (Black) people's lives ruined by accusations whether they are proved true or not?
I begin by saying (shouting) LEAVE VICK ALONE!! In the severest of cases, yeah, everyone says it was him. He did it; he did it all. Despite the fact that as a professional athlete, most of his time is taken up by athlete-type stuff, and on the rare occasions that he may have gotten to visit ALL of his vacation homes the best thing he could think of to do with his time is to participate in the tom-foolery of his kinfolk and home-boys? I mean really, however many men were "charged" only Vick could afford to fight any charges, that is until ALL his people began saying that it was him. Either way, animal cruelty is a terrible thing; but why do an accusation of a harsh crime give people the right to think that he should be thrown in a kennel or any other stupid action? He is a HUMAN. Weirdly, all those people want to "fight the crusade for inHUMANE treatment of animals" but neglect the logic that if we don't want animals treated inHUMANEly, then why would they elect to punish a HUMAN with inHUMANE treatment.
Now I will move on to Chris Brown. He apologized. His career is already taken a blow. As long as people worship rappers, and Jay-Z has anything to say, Chris Breezy is DONE. How fair is that? So, Why don't they let fans decide? I was reading in one blog that a lady wanted him to be put under a prison? Kind of harsh. While I do understand that domestic violence is important business, why don't we find out what happened before we "put people under prisons"? That boy is just a boy after all of his celebrity is gone; he is just one of us. (for more of my opinion in regards to this matter, read ASHLEY SPEAKS: CHRIHANNA, YEAH I PULLED THE RACE CARD)
Most recently, Dr. Henry Louis Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct in a public space after being approached about BREAKING INTO HIS OWN HOUSE? While this irks me, I casually let it slide; I am black and happen to notice that there are many offenses against innocent black people on a daily basis and I have not the energy to take a personal notice to every single occurrence. What bothers me is this; yesterday I was reading a CNN article and the arresting officer refuses to apologize, stating that he acted within protocol, and he did not understand why Gates acted the way he did when questioned about the reported break in. Maybe he would understand if he had grown up and became a highly celebrated PhD, and even still he is black and still has to face the fact that even with proof that he was on his own property that he would still be asked out of his home and arrested? I, indeed, was not there, but obviously there's some untold business. How does a man, answer his door, answer questions about a possible break in, show proof that he is the owner of the property, and end up being arrested for "disorderly conduct in a public space"? HE WAS CLEARLY IN A PRIVATE SPACE! And the officer, he will NEVER be able to understand why Gates answered the questions he asked with hostility because when it's all said and done, Gates is still a black man in North America...
Obama has been in office not even a whole year, and people expect him to have solved every last crisis that he inherited from faulty governing of G.W. Bush. Nevermind the fact that the majority of Bush's presidency (both terms) were videographs of his many vacations, and the war that doesn't end never had a point. Let's be mad at Obama because he said he'd fix it and "it ain't fixed"? Come on. As a student at a HBCU I see this every day, we (Black people) have to work twice as hard at everything because we have to prove to ourselves (other Black people) and others that we are just as good as every one else.
I say all of this to pose the question: why is it that dead little girls have to be found in the under grown sex slave chamber of some pedophiles garage before he (intelligent non-black man) is suspected of wrong doings? No one will suspect anything of him until a girl gets away and tells of the horror she experienced. Or how can an Anti-American group (Montana Freemen) build an almost 1 million strong group to not only oppose the governing laws of America, but fight them off with weaponry and no one sees it coming? Because America is busy scrutinizing the actions of black people, unlawful traffic stops, illegal search and seizures, and a multitude of other things in which Black people are treated suspect while far worse offenses are ACTUALLY TAKING PLACE....
and that's all I got to say about that.
I begin by saying (shouting) LEAVE VICK ALONE!! In the severest of cases, yeah, everyone says it was him. He did it; he did it all. Despite the fact that as a professional athlete, most of his time is taken up by athlete-type stuff, and on the rare occasions that he may have gotten to visit ALL of his vacation homes the best thing he could think of to do with his time is to participate in the tom-foolery of his kinfolk and home-boys? I mean really, however many men were "charged" only Vick could afford to fight any charges, that is until ALL his people began saying that it was him. Either way, animal cruelty is a terrible thing; but why do an accusation of a harsh crime give people the right to think that he should be thrown in a kennel or any other stupid action? He is a HUMAN. Weirdly, all those people want to "fight the crusade for inHUMANE treatment of animals" but neglect the logic that if we don't want animals treated inHUMANEly, then why would they elect to punish a HUMAN with inHUMANE treatment.
Now I will move on to Chris Brown. He apologized. His career is already taken a blow. As long as people worship rappers, and Jay-Z has anything to say, Chris Breezy is DONE. How fair is that? So, Why don't they let fans decide? I was reading in one blog that a lady wanted him to be put under a prison? Kind of harsh. While I do understand that domestic violence is important business, why don't we find out what happened before we "put people under prisons"? That boy is just a boy after all of his celebrity is gone; he is just one of us. (for more of my opinion in regards to this matter, read ASHLEY SPEAKS: CHRIHANNA, YEAH I PULLED THE RACE CARD)
Most recently, Dr. Henry Louis Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct in a public space after being approached about BREAKING INTO HIS OWN HOUSE? While this irks me, I casually let it slide; I am black and happen to notice that there are many offenses against innocent black people on a daily basis and I have not the energy to take a personal notice to every single occurrence. What bothers me is this; yesterday I was reading a CNN article and the arresting officer refuses to apologize, stating that he acted within protocol, and he did not understand why Gates acted the way he did when questioned about the reported break in. Maybe he would understand if he had grown up and became a highly celebrated PhD, and even still he is black and still has to face the fact that even with proof that he was on his own property that he would still be asked out of his home and arrested? I, indeed, was not there, but obviously there's some untold business. How does a man, answer his door, answer questions about a possible break in, show proof that he is the owner of the property, and end up being arrested for "disorderly conduct in a public space"? HE WAS CLEARLY IN A PRIVATE SPACE! And the officer, he will NEVER be able to understand why Gates answered the questions he asked with hostility because when it's all said and done, Gates is still a black man in North America...
Obama has been in office not even a whole year, and people expect him to have solved every last crisis that he inherited from faulty governing of G.W. Bush. Nevermind the fact that the majority of Bush's presidency (both terms) were videographs of his many vacations, and the war that doesn't end never had a point. Let's be mad at Obama because he said he'd fix it and "it ain't fixed"? Come on. As a student at a HBCU I see this every day, we (Black people) have to work twice as hard at everything because we have to prove to ourselves (other Black people) and others that we are just as good as every one else.
I say all of this to pose the question: why is it that dead little girls have to be found in the under grown sex slave chamber of some pedophiles garage before he (intelligent non-black man) is suspected of wrong doings? No one will suspect anything of him until a girl gets away and tells of the horror she experienced. Or how can an Anti-American group (Montana Freemen) build an almost 1 million strong group to not only oppose the governing laws of America, but fight them off with weaponry and no one sees it coming? Because America is busy scrutinizing the actions of black people, unlawful traffic stops, illegal search and seizures, and a multitude of other things in which Black people are treated suspect while far worse offenses are ACTUALLY TAKING PLACE....
and that's all I got to say about that.
thats all i got to say about that......
