tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post6843712966368155067..comments2024-03-29T03:47:47.027-04:00Comments on field negro: This is not a perfect 10.field negrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15411743587725023134noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-7251577564655326812008-06-14T23:47:00.000-04:002008-06-14T23:47:00.000-04:00Nihuru, thanks for the kind words, and for the lin...Nihuru, thanks for the kind words, and for the link. I will reciprocate as I always TRY to do. <BR/><BR/>Always feel free to check in with a shout. I welcome your perspective on things given your vocation.field negrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15411743587725023134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-82010748493455547072008-06-13T11:29:00.000-04:002008-06-13T11:29:00.000-04:00Hi,I just discovered your blog (linked to All God'...Hi,<BR/><BR/>I just discovered your blog (linked to All God's Children from my blog) and I absolutely love it. I can say that it is the first one that I have come across that holds my attention and is very informative. I haven't found anything close to my views until this. I'm going to link it, if you don't mind, to my blog. <BR/><BR/>By the way, I am a prison administrator and I see many of those children, particularly "us", of the woman who has so many babies that grandparents are attempting to raise them. I can't talk case specific, of course, but I'll even go further to say that I see mothers having babies, babies are then molested by sibling, mother continues having babies, sibling continues to molest babies and nothing is done until finally one molested sibling gets "jealous" because they are no longer the molesters "favorite" sibling and tells what the molester has been doing. Then the youth molester is sent to me for "rehabilitation" while mother continues to have babies for reasons such as religion bans contraband, and then eventually I have to release the adjudicated juvenile back to his home, and the babies, because he has no other placement, and he has completed the court ordered "treatment" program. Some of you may be wondering how a 12 year old knows of such things, so for clarification let me say that for the most part it is from being molested themselves by parents and/or grandparents. Some do it from necessity. I've been told "I was hungry". This child was eating feces from the baby's diaper and of course one thing led to another. One thing for sure, he knew where to get his "food" on a fairly regular basis.<BR/><BR/>Well I better stop now. I usually leave my work behind the locked doors (we don't have bars in the Juvie system here).<BR/><BR/>Be Blessed and continue doing what you do!<BR/><BR/>Much love, NihuruLocs2Envyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09161240465853730753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-82937230172095561452008-06-10T22:03:00.000-04:002008-06-10T22:03:00.000-04:00So ... in the Inky this morning ...the first perso...So ... in the Inky this morning ...<BR/>the first person brought a hose (what she wished for). Another peson brought an air-conditioner, and then another was left for the family with the church, Then the landlord brough TWO air conditioners AND a pool. The churches have been inundated with gifts to the point where they can help others as well. Not a ROOT solution, but, who cares when it's a fine day even so? There is something to be said for a mother who only needs her children's happiness to be at peace.CoyoteFehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08565436605473733851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-57858391439449576762008-06-10T15:37:00.000-04:002008-06-10T15:37:00.000-04:00Little to be said that hasn't been eloquently iter...Little to be said that hasn't been eloquently iterated above. But I'll summarize my particular take:<BR/><BR/>Education<BR/>Self-esteem<BR/>Community<BR/>Family<BR/>Employment<BR/><BR/>Further, I find it shocking to note the assaults currently being executed against each item listed.<BR/><BR/>As for the news piece, perhaps living in a southern city with the likes of Neil Boortz and Newt Gingrich has affected my perceptions, but yes, I believe the facts are true; but I also believe it was published as a veiled "Welfare Queen" story intended to promote the stereotype. And I saw no point in listing their <I>partial</I> address.Dr. Knowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08035212475787264261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-22643194323743828702008-06-10T15:29:00.000-04:002008-06-10T15:29:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Dr. Knowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08035212475787264261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-55138152496166079412008-06-10T14:44:00.000-04:002008-06-10T14:44:00.000-04:00Great you found somebody to put down , do we all f...Great you found somebody to put down , do we all feel better now?<BR/><BR/>After slavery black families all had a lot of children to repopulate our community.<BR/><BR/>In high school blacks and mexicans were looked down on because of getting pregnant at 16, as whites secretly had abortions. Who do you think God will judge more harshly those that kill their babies or those that have them?<BR/><BR/>But thanks for this article, pls find others we can talk about and look down on, these black blogs are so uplifting! I swear I think most of black blogs are secretly run by the KKK and their just laughing look how black ppl hate on each other, look we picked an easy target, this bitch with ten kids, everybody let's dump on her<BR/><BR/>I have lived all over the country: news flash--poor whites and poor blacks act the EXACT SAME!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-62613047390770018602008-06-10T14:39:00.000-04:002008-06-10T14:39:00.000-04:00I had to come back to this post to read comments a...I had to come back to this post to read comments and catch up on what other people were saying. <BR/><BR/>You've got a crew of very enlightened commentators Field...with a tiny sprinkling of idiot for flavor..'cause there is always one in every crowd.Missyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13070211913779989206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-18223347495739107402008-06-10T11:20:00.000-04:002008-06-10T11:20:00.000-04:00This is not a perfect 10…Field what is your point?...This is not a perfect 10…<BR/><BR/>Field what is your point? There is little in the way of a story about the weather unless you can relate to it. I see this as a “human interest” story with a “hook”. We can all start to feel the heat on our neck when we read the account of how the family copes with the heat. We all start to feel irritated by the heat and the conditions.<BR/>All of the social issues identified by you and your readers exist and they exist very “large” in the life of Cynthia King. Each issue, poor, obese, too many children, lack of support could have volumes written about it, true. But I think Susan Snyder and Rita Giordano hoped for a different response.<BR/>I was taken by the fact that the home address was included in among the facts…why? I know how I felt after reading the piece. I need to send Cynthia some money to buy her a fan, food, what ever. I need to write her and share information about how to keep the hot daytime air out of her house. I need to tell her how to draw a tub of water for the kids to cool in and not waste water with multiple showers. I need to do something HELPFUL.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-69997017698653725592008-06-10T06:00:00.000-04:002008-06-10T06:00:00.000-04:00Poor lady- losing a husband really does a lot of d...Poor lady- losing a husband really does a lot of damage to a family.<BR/><BR/>But she's not the only one with that many kids.Hey Field! Do you remember that birthing machine out of Arkansas? The woman with 18 or 20 kids by her husband the state senator? Your tax dollars at work, indeed.<BR/><BR/>Before people start trippin' over welfare, check the stats. CORPORATE WELFARE takes up more money than Medicaid and Food Stamps combined.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-17181429750305490362008-06-10T00:22:00.000-04:002008-06-10T00:22:00.000-04:00That King woman had a big ole' SEXY BODY! No wonde...That King woman had a big ole' SEXY BODY! No wonder she has 10 kids! Lawd Have Mercy!ZACKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15868391244595404406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-39272896607350891562008-06-09T23:43:00.000-04:002008-06-09T23:43:00.000-04:00Let's not forget that Ms. King had the option of d...Let's not forget that Ms. King had the option of declining the interview or asking that it not be printed. She made herself and her state of being fodder for criticism and shaking of heads. She apparently has no prob with the kind of attention that having 10 children and not being able to aptly provide for them attracts.SingaporeSwimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14324188257570511872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-4053110597396857632008-06-09T23:20:00.000-04:002008-06-09T23:20:00.000-04:00FN,How do I recommend a candidate for Field Negro ...FN,<BR/><BR/>How do I recommend a candidate for Field Negro of the Day?<BR/><BR/>It is June 9th, 11:15 at night and Dennis Kucinich is in the House of Representatives reading articles of impeachment on the floor of the Housr of Representatives.<BR/><BR/>Live on C-SPAN 1<BR/><BR/>He's up to Article 31. President George W. Bush and his dereliction of duty regarding New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina. <BR/><BR/>And he is thorough. Naming names, I mean, Kicking ass and taking names! <BR/><BR/>Field Negro behavior. indeed!isonprizehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14913699118019643094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-7697104045493841292008-06-09T22:49:00.000-04:002008-06-09T22:49:00.000-04:00"Field there were some great and heartfelt posts b..."Field there were some great and heartfelt posts by granny, missy and girl6. If we could get together with folks as forward thinking as are most of the folks who respond to this blog we could make some real changes." <BR/><BR/>mellaneous, I will say AMEN to that. <BR/><BR/>And I sure attract a lot of you ministers here:) It's all good though. You all must know that I am a backsliding PK and you are trying to get me back in the church:) <BR/><BR/>And why would this poor woman leave NYC to go to K&A. As someone above mentioned K&A ain't no joke for us black folks.-- isonprize, I think I know where thembi was coming from. As a black person you do feel safer in north or West Philly than K&A. Lots of angry poor white people there--. But as someone else mentioned it could have been a housing issue with this woman. It's cheaper to live it in Philly than in NY. <BR/><BR/>But this article....I am still hoping that one of the writers will reach out to me. But, I won't hold my breath :(field negrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15411743587725023134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-55203700922090047462008-06-09T22:09:00.000-04:002008-06-09T22:09:00.000-04:00The truth hurts, and for good reason may I add.The truth hurts, and for good reason may I add.the.spothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16223728234107850404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-4314242966947309962008-06-09T22:02:00.000-04:002008-06-09T22:02:00.000-04:00I think this is a case of you not being able to ha...I think this is a case of you not being able to handle the truth Field. (-: Truth hurts but never lies.<BR/><BR/>Facts are facts and writers have license to employ "drama" when it serves those facts, esp. when reporting on human interest stories.<BR/><BR/>Ms. King is 37 and has 10 kids (that alone hypes the story) and they're coping with Philly's heat wave (empathetic side of story). <BR/>If Ms. King were a 37 y.o. single woman in the same bind that would not be nearly as sensationalized ....well, unless she were a famous star. <BR/><BR/> That's the news biz for ya'.SingaporeSwimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14324188257570511872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-53682557103668875512008-06-09T21:47:00.000-04:002008-06-09T21:47:00.000-04:00Perhaps a charitable party will help her and her f...Perhaps a charitable party will help her and her family once they read about their predicament and help her help herself <BR/><BR/>I live in Tejas and no AC would be intolerable and unbearable for most in these parts, although it's not a rarity. <BR/><BR/>*****<BR/><BR/>OT: I wonder how long until Obama is asked if he approves of/supports former Rep. JC Watts' Black Television News Channel which launches in 2009? How should he/will he answer this question?<BR/><BR/>In the already racially polarized political climate, won't the creation of a black focused news channel be used against Obama, some way and somehow? FOX has first dibs of course.SingaporeSwimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14324188257570511872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-31699978221267304362008-06-09T21:23:00.000-04:002008-06-09T21:23:00.000-04:00It would help if we pruned that branch on the fami...It would help if we pruned that branch on the family tree know as the baby Momma/daddy, If your married and living with the woman you don't have to pay child support. <BR/><BR/>Jusus.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-17770020344995672382008-06-09T21:17:00.000-04:002008-06-09T21:17:00.000-04:00I think this article was framed for entertainment ...I think this article was framed for entertainment purposes.<BR/><BR/>I am white, I am one of ten children, my Grandmother had six children, her uncle had 16 children, yes, sixteen, and they didn't even live together.<BR/><BR/>I have so many cousins that even in NYC, in a fairly large goverment organization, I know of at least 2 third cousins who work with me. Could be more, who knows?<BR/><BR/>So many of the comments here have been on target, but I do want to add a little bit more. <BR/><BR/>The Archdiocese in NYC, headed by Eagen, is a farce. He is closing schools and churches in poor neighborhoods, and at the same time, building churches in rich areas. He is a fake. Now that is a newsworthy story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-46708104613358582002008-06-09T21:10:00.000-04:002008-06-09T21:10:00.000-04:00@kellybelle,I let the Sha-queen go, but "U-Allah"?...@kellybelle,<BR/><BR/>I let the Sha-queen go, but "U-Allah"? I couldn't even call somebody that.wanda loves...https://www.blogger.com/profile/06044891582126710258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-76178099171597700752008-06-09T20:20:00.000-04:002008-06-09T20:20:00.000-04:00~... There is so much missing from this article.an...~<BR/>... <I>There is so much missing from this article.</I><BR/><A>anonymous</A> 7:58 PM<BR/><BR/>Yeah, like a crying towel.<BR/>`NSangomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14524533445392018957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-78085209228989468772008-06-09T19:58:00.000-04:002008-06-09T19:58:00.000-04:00It seems to me that the writer displays her bias b...It seems to me that the writer displays her bias by showing only black poor people in the heat and in contrast white middle-class people enjoying a boat race in the heat. Are there no white poor people in Philly? Or black people who like boat races? <BR/><BR/>The article veers off in many unrelated directions. It's hard to determine what the subject of this article was supposed to be about. Is this an article about how residents in Philly cope with the heat? or Is this an article about overweight black women having too many kids? Shouldn't this article have included a means to assist/donate to individuals who are not senior citizens in need? (I didn't see a phone # or contact person)? <BR/><BR/>"Cynthia" obviously has strengths and weaknesses, as we all do. She mustered up the strength to leave a bad situation. However, I think she must feel really bad about herself because of her obesity, which can cause job discrimination. I can only assume that "Cynthia" lacks education, childcare, transportation, and most of all lacking is <B>self-esteem</B>.<BR/><BR/>She has to be overwhelmed on a 24/7 basis and not just by the heat. It's unfortunate.<BR/><BR/>I find it difficult to see her in a health aid position when she needs so much help herself. Kids need a mom. I think this is why so many kids get in trouble because there is no father in the home (for whatever reason) and the mom is working one or more jobs to make ends meet. This is sooooo not good.<BR/><BR/>There is so much missing from this article.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-40018671372569398462008-06-09T18:10:00.000-04:002008-06-09T18:10:00.000-04:00The way I read this, the article wanted to emphasi...The way I read this, the article wanted to emphasize that this woman was one of the unworthy poor. I see this all the time. Then we get to say, "Well, they had it coming. I'll just turn the AC up a notch and chill out." <BR/>A lot of the poor people I know have never had kids or have small families, are widowed, separated, and so on and/or have health problems that have forced them out of jobs and into poverty. And many of them used to be well off before Bushco ruined the economy. Many of them are old women living alone. Yeah, those old women living alone. What a bunch of leeches.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-34338458363558128042008-06-09T18:03:00.000-04:002008-06-09T18:03:00.000-04:00Thembi. Born and reared Philly girl here. I kno...Thembi. Born and reared Philly girl here. I know the 'hoods.<BR/><BR/>So, either it was joke I didn't get or she was naive in thinking that folks only get shot at K&A.isonprizehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14913699118019643094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-87660084737840852262008-06-09T17:34:00.000-04:002008-06-09T17:34:00.000-04:00Field as a journalist and former editor who is alw...Field as a journalist and former editor who is always making calls to the local Big business press to point out their biases I deal with this all the time.<BR/><BR/>There is no such thing as an objective journalist. I used to tell everyone when I wrote and edited black weeklies that I am not objective I have a worldview and now that is out of the way I am going to present the facts as best as I can, which includes both sides and let the reader figure out the truth. But many of these middle class folks come to news rooms with their unconscious class and racial biases and write biased crap and try to hide behind objectivity when they get called out.<BR/><BR/>I recently called the Miami Herald's executive editor on the carpet in a public meeting where his paper had the nerve to be talking about improving community relations. I pointed out that they could help by not reinforcing negative stereotypes, which they and the other Big Business press do on a daily basis.<BR/><BR/>The writers very shrewdly injected <BR/>information into a feature about the weather that clearly if not purposely reveals the writers biases. What I thought should have been the focus of the story was the fact that the power company is turning off the electricity on poor folks in the middle of a heat wave.<BR/><BR/>But that's America for you, it was much easier to pick on this poor woman and delve into her business, which had little to do with the heat wave. Its easier to do that than to suggest that folks help there lesser off neighbor.<BR/><BR/>Yes it is problematic that the woman has all these kids and it is sad all around. But its not a sideshow in which to sell papers. This is kind of sick, this woman's troubles are amusement to some. But of course there is a reason for kids having children too early and there is a reason for the low self esteem and bad self image that contributes to folks sometimes just having baby after baby.<BR/><BR/>But that of course is beyond the point as someone said about the woman's children, "these are our kids, they are society's kids."<BR/><BR/>Field there were some great and heartfelt posts by granny, missy and girl6. If we could get together with folks as forward thinking as are most of the folks who respond to this blog we could make some real changes.<BR/><BR/>Oh and by the way I agree with granny on the church. I am a minister as well (yeah Field I'll come out of the closet) but I subscribe to the liberationist theology and the radical religion of Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Bishop Henry McMeal Turner, MLK and folks nowadays including Rev. Wright who are doing their thing in obscurity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-91275758598835641162008-06-09T16:19:00.000-04:002008-06-09T16:19:00.000-04:00@isonprizeKensington is not a black neighborhood -...@isonprize<BR/>Kensington is not a black neighborhood - its mostly working class white and latino and is one of our city's grimiest, although it's becoming gentrified. It contains actually the only pieces of the city I'm really scared of.Thembi Fordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01444442842465183297noreply@blogger.com