tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post2132890915847166167..comments2024-03-28T21:27:14.626-04:00Comments on field negro: Killing fields.field negrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15411743587725023134noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-56026485992442430212008-05-05T21:38:00.000-04:002008-05-05T21:38:00.000-04:00Mr. Field,I tried to leave my comments earlier and...Mr. Field,<BR/><BR/>I tried to leave my comments earlier and they weren't recorded.<BR/><BR/>I live within 2 to 3 miles of most of these tragedies. We need to stop pointing fingers and figure out a way to stop the violence. I hope that the 10,000 man watch is doing well, as it needs to do.<BR/><BR/>We also need to stop racial profiling and just have the cops stop "them which look bad." There are crooks and hoods of all type, stripes and colors and they need to be stopped!!! Period!<BR/><BR/>I am just a skinny old(ish) white woman who would dearly love to live back when I could walk anywhere and not worry about getting shot or stabbed. As it is, I still go places people say I shouldn't go and frankly don't give a damn. Even my black friends say, "Oh, I wouldn't go there." Well, that's where I gotta do bizness, so there you go!<BR/><BR/>My grandmother used to have a saying; "There but for the grace of God, go I." It is something that I try to live by. I stop and talk with everyone; street folks, hood kids, folks on the bus or train, just everyone. The only way to belong is to belong.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps I'll get shot one day, but then again, perhaps the hood kid I said "hi" to will save my life. I don't know. Everyone looks alike to me.........there are no stangers in this world, only friends waiting to be met. Maybe that is niave, but that is what I like to think.<BR/><BR/>Regards to you all.........WhitWhitney B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06404590578854398426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-90038519451548006042008-05-01T11:45:00.000-04:002008-05-01T11:45:00.000-04:00[quote]Flag pins and patriotism aren't saving live...[quote]Flag pins and patriotism aren't saving lives on the streets of Philly or Cleveland[/quote]<BR/><BR/>Kellybelle - <BR/><BR/>Could you tell us WHAT CAN save the lives on the streets of Philly or Cleveland? CERTAINLY it was not the Democratic take over that their respective Black communities had advocated for over these past 25 years.<BR/><BR/>It seems to me that LIVES ARE SAVED when the people in question DECIDE that their lives are indeed too valuable to be taken by school foolish conflicts.<BR/><BR/>(You seem to be the eternal optimist KellybelleConstructive Feedbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417405356099504421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-72467707861423628552008-04-30T10:08:00.000-04:002008-04-30T10:08:00.000-04:00Oh well, thats life. Use your 2nd Amendment Rights...Oh well, thats life. Use your 2nd Amendment Rights. Chicago can't stay out the news with is murder rate however most of you will just make excuses and waiting on another "great white hope" instead of looking at yourself and asking "why I am living so crazy?" I'm black and I want nothing to do with "tha hood" sad to say. You can't even own a pistol in Chicago so thats a very smart idea, punish law abiding citizens while criminals have access to guns at ease. Don't worry, the Supreme Court will over turn that ruling come the summer however dose it ever cross anyone mind that this is why criminals need to be in "jail" not on the streets. This will be the status quo for any American Blacks because you are willing to live all crazy in the name of self-loaving. Myself: I'll fight crime by shooting back and by not voting Democratic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-36756638550652436072008-04-30T08:06:00.000-04:002008-04-30T08:06:00.000-04:00Field Negro:Although we trade political barbs back...Field Negro:<BR/><BR/>Although we trade political barbs back and forth - I appreciate your persistence in keeping an eye on this cancer within our community.<BR/><BR/>What good is all of these external fights if at the end we are killing each other inside of the house with reckless abandon? There are some serious cultural and social dysfunction going on right in front of our faces.<BR/><BR/>Only a wholesale change of our assumptions on how to raise our own and instill certain values and respect for human life and a reduction of materialism is going to change this.Constructive Feedbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417405356099504421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-22778110840702791792008-04-29T21:28:00.000-04:002008-04-29T21:28:00.000-04:00As far as the senseless killings are concerned, th...As far as the senseless killings are concerned, they are running rampant. Chicago, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and others are mounting up the killings every weekend. Instinctively, we want to point the finger at the kids who point guns. But I think we need to go a step further and determine why they turned out that way. We've got to get at the source.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-269235882058800922008-04-29T21:23:00.000-04:002008-04-29T21:23:00.000-04:00Rev. Wright has done nothing wrong. He had a right...Rev. Wright has done nothing wrong. He had a right to defend himself. When will people, especially black folks, learn that some white people would have never voted for Obama anyway. If not the situation with Rev. Wright, the mainstream media would have dreamed up another scheme to knock down Obama.<BR/><BR/>But you mark my words. OBAMA'S SO-CALLED MAINSTREAM, LIBERAL FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS WILL DROP HIM LIKE A HOT POTATO IF HE DOES NOT GET THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION. HOWEVER, I BET REV. WRIGHT WILL BE THE ONLY ONE STILL WILLING TO SPEAK WITH HIM EVEN AFTER OBAMA SAID THAT HE WAS OUTRAGED. <BR/><BR/>After 400 years and more of suffering, how did you think you could trust them? You can never live as a free man when you still have to hold your head down and shuffle your feet while keeping your mouth closed. People like Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Minister Louis Farrakhan feel free to speak your peace. And if Obama doesn't win, so be it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-32718674850214100342008-04-29T21:17:00.000-04:002008-04-29T21:17:00.000-04:00a final thought now that i have read all the comme...a final thought now that i have read all the comments.<BR/><BR/>undercoverbrother- have you ever wondered how poor black folks can get guns and ammunition much easier than education, jobs, a fair judicial shake. really. never had a hmmmmm, about that moment? then again, maybe we should just shut down those black gun factories. oh, yeah, that's right, none of those. <BR/><BR/>black folks, collectively, are out of our right minds. we don't like ourselves, respect ourselves, accept ourselves, nor value ourselves. killing our reflection is so simple as a result. put white folks in front of these same people and they will strive to not offend them. be clear, sociopaths come in all colors---sociopaths kill everybody just cause they can.<BR/><BR/>i cannot remember who commented on the murder of black men. at some point, black folks would do well to notice that black women and children are not fairing much better. i think homicide is number 2 for women and girls. most violent crime is intraracial. maybe that's why no one wants to talk about it. white women married to crazed white men named petersen are not the only ones disappearing on the regular. they are just the ones that make the news. don't take my word for it, check it out. brothers went from killing each other like crazy to killing the black community. sisters seem to be waiting to see the need to stand on oprah before getting busy:-( wth!<BR/><BR/>ok, being quiet now. thanks for listening.focusedpurposehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15537118983874391619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-19471305597751442382008-04-29T21:00:00.000-04:002008-04-29T21:00:00.000-04:00mellaneouos-all i can say is SPEAK!when we stop ac...mellaneouos-<BR/><BR/>all i can say is SPEAK!<BR/><BR/>when we stop acting brand new, on good behavior, well adjusted to oppression, clinging to jobs and stuff we will surely lose anyways and get serious this will change. not a moment sooner.<BR/><BR/>thank you for the truth. i find it refreshing.<BR/><BR/>blessings,<BR/>focusedpurposefocusedpurposehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15537118983874391619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-941909069531939422008-04-29T20:57:00.000-04:002008-04-29T20:57:00.000-04:00what's going on?mentacide and genocide collide. d...what's going on?<BR/><BR/>mentacide and genocide collide. de-population is in full swing.<BR/><BR/>Field, i have no problem with folks being armed. the nra is alright by me. armed folks that don't know who to shoot---i got problems with them!<BR/><BR/>so while white folks flee to the suburbs and teach their preteens how to shoot at black targets---black folks are crowded into the inner cities, like crowded rats and behaving according to the crowded rat syndrome, unarmed, ducking thugs, plain clothed ones and uniformed ones alike. <BR/><BR/>no one is trying to stop this, because things are going according to plan...<BR/><BR/>...i know some will get mad. then i will have to quote ole dick cheney, "so?"...i'm not loving the truth either. just telling it. i am snitching!!!<BR/><BR/>thanks for your post---thought provoking as always.<BR/><BR/>blessings,<BR/>focusedpurposefocusedpurposehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15537118983874391619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-17445339337317727502008-04-29T20:28:00.000-04:002008-04-29T20:28:00.000-04:00It is difficult to hear or see another person's ta...It is difficult to hear or see another person's taking away over a senseless killing. There was a murder in Irvington, NJ over a week ago. I college student coming home from work early Sunday morning was shot in the neck and murdered by a person he knew. The shooter was going around shooting people, a police officer and another person. No one knows why he was going around shooting people, and the college was going graduate in the next month. My heart goes out to the parents. His mother tried to save him by giving CPR until EMS arrived, but they showed an hour later. I just want to scream out stop it, just stop killing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-50920232805746762782008-04-29T20:20:00.000-04:002008-04-29T20:20:00.000-04:00Actually West Coast its not true that we don't kno...Actually West Coast its not true that we don't know what the answer is and it is also not true that the anwers are all long term. <BR/><BR/>The addition tommorrow of drug treatment centers, mental health centers, quality public education, ex offender rehab programs half way houses and a domestic Marshall Plan rebuilding the US infrastructure including New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, the inner cities, an affordable home and real shelter for everyone willing to work are workable short term solutions.<BR/><BR/>And add to that a short term re-emergence of Black consciousness. Thats right our young folks are engaged in some serious self hating. Frantz Fanon and Paulo Frierre would have a field day explaining this situation. But we know what ails these young people lack of a positive self image, lack of the ability to envision a future for themselves and those who look like them.<BR/><BR/>But we know the other truth as well, which is that "the government" lacks the will and many of us lack the initiative or the imagination it takes to do what it takes to make real changes that have to include a real redistribution of the countries resources and wealth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-22588544139193939132008-04-29T18:52:00.000-04:002008-04-29T18:52:00.000-04:00undercover black man: We do 52% of the murders? ...undercover black man: <BR/><BR/>We do 52% of the murders? That seems high altough I believe we commit murder at a higher rate. <BR/><BR/>I was in a meeting with our mayor recently and he became quite emotional in discussing the black on black crime. This is p-a-i-n-f-u-l. We talk about more cops, better schools, more youth programs, better ex offender re-entry programs, but these are all long-terms solutions. Some longer term than others. In the meantime, How many more have to die? How do you change the nihilistic attitudes out here? People are dying over bullshit. A kid died over in SF because the kid behind him didn't think he was going down the escalator fast enough. One kid on trial for kidnapping in Oakland said he didn't think his cohorts had planned the kidnapping because it didn't go smooth like it does on TV. These young people are living in their own private movies. And as one activist said to me recently, the need for mental health services is ginormous. <BR/><BR/>I don't know what the answer is.west coast storyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16833809632143106334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-88539000162647767492008-04-29T18:43:00.000-04:002008-04-29T18:43:00.000-04:00Wow, the nutty Rev. Wright just torpedoed Obama's ...Wow, the nutty Rev. Wright just torpedoed Obama's boat. The first real shot at having a black man as prez. and this phony, loudmouth, self aggrandizing ass just fucked it up. Fucked.It.Up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-42630811633064133432008-04-29T17:33:00.000-04:002008-04-29T17:33:00.000-04:00It doesn't make the national news cuz black men dy...<EM>It doesn't make the national news cuz black men dying is not worthy of attention...</EM><BR/><BR/>BULLSHIT. It doesn't make the national news because the media don't want to focus on the gross disproportion of BLACK MURDERERS.<BR/><BR/>This is the liberal's conundrum. You can't focus on all this violence and death without calling attention to some uncomfortable facts:<BR/><BR/>Black people commit 52 percent of all homicides in the U.S.<BR/><BR/>Black people commit murder at SEVEN TIMES the rate of white people.<BR/><BR/>This is the defining crisis of black American life today. Homicide is the No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34.<BR/><BR/>And if the media started hammering on this, a lot of black folks would complain that the black race was being demonized and sterotyped as violent criminals.<BR/><BR/>Most black folks would rather focus on the occasional bad police shooting than the 20 black people PER DAY killed by other black people.Undercover Black Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08704721024820668555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-84587245601772646862008-04-29T16:55:00.000-04:002008-04-29T16:55:00.000-04:00Folks, It's a wrap. Hilary's going to get this no...Folks, <BR/><BR/>It's a wrap. Hilary's going to get this nomination. Thanks to Wright. Hilary's camp actually invited Wright to speak at that press conference yesterday. <BR/><BR/>Wright won't shut up and he is a thorn in Obama's ass. lol<BR/><BR/>Black Female <BR/>McCain 08'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-91556617716702931692008-04-29T16:28:00.000-04:002008-04-29T16:28:00.000-04:00Truthfully, no candidate has spoken about the real...Truthfully, no candidate has spoken about the real issues, AIDS, gun violence, school violence, healthcare.....even more, the stress in America is creating stress related illness for people all across this country, we want to save the people in IRAQ but who is saving us in our own country, MCCAIN, CLINTON AND OBAMA are talking about Jobs, but what about safety, crime is real high in urban cities and even the suburbs, the shooting sprees in this country are like never before and gas is so expensive people are unable to get the work....the list goes on.....this issues are not just about getting jobs, BUT GOOD JOBS THAT WILL give us healthcare, better hours so people can take care of their children, it is so hard for a working family to go to work and help their kids with their homework....there must be some limits on our employers....we are living in modern day slavery....and we are being slaughtered.......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-8881519511961828162008-04-29T16:27:00.000-04:002008-04-29T16:27:00.000-04:00Truthfully, no candidate has spoken about the real...Truthfully, no candidate has spoken about the real issues, AIDS, gun violence, school violence, healthcare.....even more, the stress in America is creating stress related illness for people all across this country, we want to save the people in IRAQ but who is saving us in our own country, MCCAIN, CLINTON AND OBAMA are talking about Jobs, but what about safety, crime is real high in urban cities and even the suburbs, the shooting sprees in this country are like never before and gas is so expensive people are unable to get the work....the list goes on.....this issues are not just about getting jobs, BUT GOOD JOBS THAT WILL give us healthcare, better hours so people can take care of their children, it is so hard for a working family to go to work and help their kids with their homework....there must be some limits on our employers....we are living in modern day slavery....and we are being slaughtered.......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-82725921515767503842008-04-29T15:43:00.000-04:002008-04-29T15:43:00.000-04:00Field thanks for bringing this back again. You kno...Field thanks for bringing this back again. You know and I know and just about everyone commenting on this blog and most people with any sense know what the solution to the killings in the inner city is.<BR/><BR/>We all know that we may not be able to save or redirect those presently hell bent on destroying one another. But something could be done to stem the tide.<BR/><BR/>But we know that as long as schools in these areas are substandard, salaries in those areas are substandard, health care is substandard, housing is substandard and difficult to afford, jobs and job training are lacking and racist stereotypes continue to be propagated along with the sense that black people are still denied equal opportunity and in some quarters continue to be hated, we will have young Black people killing one another.<BR/><BR/>At some point we have to decide that we are a part of history and we can decide to be actors in it or handwringing bystanders. This may require an honest assessment of the system that runs this country and what it really is all about. It will require our active participation.It requires an honest assessment of what the candidates from both ruling class parties are really willing and able to offer.<BR/><BR/>In some respects we hold the key. We can wait for 2012 or we can look it in the eye and decide that, "now is the time."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-68197805820550311122008-04-29T14:20:00.000-04:002008-04-29T14:20:00.000-04:00Thanks Field for context. I live in Oakland which ...Thanks Field for context. I live in Oakland which is in serious crime meltdown. But as far as solutions--I'm at a loss. One thing is for sure, the folks, old and particularly the young need serious mental health assistance. We're talking kids who for all intents and purposes are deeply antisocial like Romanian war orphans. They are not animal--they are deeply injured and have zero sociabilty. I've done literacy training and virtually every young adult I have come across is functionally illiterate. This is the 21st century. They can barely write their names. There is no infrastructure in Oakland, these kids are feril. We start there then maybe...but until then, the flood.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-54326623541461461452008-04-29T13:31:00.000-04:002008-04-29T13:31:00.000-04:00http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/s...http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2008/04/21/daily44.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-42509670806105167402008-04-29T13:23:00.000-04:002008-04-29T13:23:00.000-04:00Kid,Check it.The Borg Queen appeared last year at ...Kid,<BR/><BR/>Check it.<BR/><BR/>The Borg Queen appeared last year at a fundraiser hosted for her campaign by Rupert Murdock, then recently with the 700 Club's Pat Robertson to profess her Christian faith and her respect for the Second Amendment, then with the architect of the Arkansas Project, Richard Melon Sciafe, and now, she's going to plant her fat ass down with Bill O'Reilly.<BR/><BR/>What's next for the Borg Queen? <BR/><BR/>Tea with Osama bin Laden? Hillary Clinton is a despicable hag.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15788931352232874850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-11836281817056519052008-04-29T13:01:00.000-04:002008-04-29T13:01:00.000-04:00Hey christopher,she think that she doing a rope-a-...Hey christopher,<BR/><BR/>she think that she doing a rope-a-dope move.But as soon as BillO says something like "I like Sen.Barack but" the bull will start flying.People aren't going to fall for it. Last week she was the Grand Dragoness, this week she went to a Black church and thinks she Mother Theresa,I ani't buying it.kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15403016215102685806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-12776454013880330522008-04-29T12:42:00.000-04:002008-04-29T12:42:00.000-04:00My exclusive of the day is this:The Borg Queen Wil...My exclusive of the day is this:<BR/><BR/><B>The Borg Queen Will Appear on Billo's Program on FOX Noise Wednesday.</B><BR/><BR/>Let's see (well, not me because I wouldn't watch Billo if you promised me sex with Jorge Posada) if he asks the Borg Queen about rising crime in America's cities.<BR/><BR/>My guess is, Billo's focus will be on Jeremiah Wright and Bill Clinton. Anyone want to bet me $20?Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15788931352232874850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-78952808927134893552008-04-29T12:30:00.000-04:002008-04-29T12:30:00.000-04:00Field,I'm so sorry - for you and your community an...Field,<BR/><BR/>I'm so sorry - for you and your community and city. I don't even know what to say...I keep wanting to intellectualize this chronic trauma for cities and esp. urban black communities but I feel useless.<BR/><BR/>Like so many, I've ashamed at how much time I've invested in this election when it feels like the world is falling apart around us.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for bringing us back into focus.Redstarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17531172542265715242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-13175776753759362442008-04-29T11:51:00.000-04:002008-04-29T11:51:00.000-04:00Field,The number one thing mentioned about Philly ...Field,<BR/><BR/>The number one thing mentioned about Philly here in Whitest Whitesylvania is the crime. It's poor here too. The median income is well below $14,000 for a family of four. Many work two or three part-time jobs. There is little opportunity and the wages stink.<BR/><BR/>Most males have at least three guns. Some have collections (over 100). Yet, the gun violence and murder rate here is far less than that of Philly. In fact, these are some of the safer areas of the Commonwealth.<BR/><BR/>MoldAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com