Thursday, July 17, 2008

HUMMM..A BLACK JUDGE IN ATLANTA MUST HAVE READ MY BOOK!!...LOL!


MAYBE NOT BUT WE ARE SURE ON THE SAME PAGE!!!

 Judge Marvin Arrington has had it...."People are shooting, robbing people, dropping out of school," Arrington laments.

He says he's tired of seeing the same people in his Atlanta courtroom, over and over.

"Ninety percent of you are African Americans," he says to a courtroom packed with young black men.

Judge Arrington is offended -- and embarrassed.

"I wonder sometimes what in the world Dr. King and all them died for," he says.

It's a racial scolding. It's blunt, public and controversial.

"What in the world is going on? Why cannot we stop and get it right?" Arrington said in an interview with Strassmann.

In black America, a private family conversation about what's wrong, has gone public, and turned bitter. Take for example civil rights leader Jesse Jackson's reaction to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's Father's Day speech, in which the candidate chided young black men for being absentee fathers.

"Too many fathers are also missing, too many fathers are M.I.A.. Too many fathers are AWOL," Obama said last month.

In an unguarded moment this week, Jackson was clearly furious at Obama.

"I'd like to cut his n--ts off," Jackson fumed.

Not Arrington. He thinks the tough-love is long overdue. As a kid, Arrington was a bit of a thug, the sort of kid he often sees in court. Family and teachers set him straight.

"I was just hanging out being one of the boys," Arrington told Strassmann "And one day the light clicked on. I didn't want to be one of the boys."

Arrington's now trying to turn around the lives of others.

"You got a short life," he warned one defendant. "Try to make something out of it."

Get a job, get a degree, get a plan. Get it right. That's what the judge is trying to teach.

Arrington's even teamed up in Atlanta with Bill Cosby, who preaches the same message.

But not everyone in the black community supports their efforts. Critics call it a "Blame the Poor" tour. They resent men like Arrington and Cosby airing black America's dirty laundry in public.

"If you want to say that your children blowing each other's brains out, to mention it is dirty laundry, there's something wrong with you," Cosby said in response to the critics.

But Arrington has also taken it a step further. First he cleared his courtroom of all white people to chew out black defendants in private, in what he now admits was a mistake. A mistake that sent his critics howling.

"All I was trying to say to young people is, hey, we are for you," Arrington said. "Get yourself together."

Arrrington says early on, he learned if you see a good fight, get in it.

"You can't give up on it," he said. "You can't walk away. You can't close the door."

And he's vowed to continue this fight until the same faces stop walking through his door.

HOW IS THERE ANY OPPOSITION TO WHAT  JUDGE  ARRINGTON, DR. COSBY AND MANY OTHERS (LIKE ME) HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS??. JUDGE ARRINGTON OF COURSE IS PART OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM AS WAS I. WE SEE  THE HUGE AMOUNT OF AFRICAN AMERICANS CRIMINALS FIRST HAND. IF WE DIDN'T CARE THEN WHY WOULD WE STAND UP TO SO MANY?...WE COULD ACTUALLY JUST SIT BACK AND MAKE EXCUSES LIKE MOST BUT FOR PEOPLE LIKE COSBY, ARRINGTON, AND I THIS ISN'T THE EASY WAY OUT. HOW CAN AN AFRICAN AMERICAN STAND BY WITH KNOWLEDGE OF THE VAST AMOUNTS OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY WITHIN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND IGNORE IT, BUT WHEN A PERSON PUBLICLY SPEAKS ABOUT IT THEN THESE IDIOTS WANT TO SPEAK UP!

THERE SHOULD BE A FORUM OF AFRICAN AMERICANS PUT ON A MEDIA CIRCUIT TO SPREAD THIS LOGICAL COMMON SENSE!

LET'S SEE WHO WILL BE THE FIRST TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE ARE MANY PROFESSIONAL AFRICAN AMERICANS THAT ARE SICK AND TIRED OF CRIMINAL MINDED NIGGAS...OPRAH?, BAISDEN?, MONTEL?, BANKS?...LET'S GET THIS SHOW ON THE ROAD AND GET THE WORD OUT...WE ARE GETTING TIRED OF THIS SHIT!!


1 comments:

brian williams said...

I agree blk ppl need 2 take resposiblity, but the bulk of it should b in the parents, the educators, the adults the so called leaders and i say so called cause i never seen none of them in my hood talkin 2 me n my boys. None of u understand what is like 2 b young in our generation, its completely dif than when u were young...most of us were raised by older siblings television playstation and myspace...so instead of scape goating the youth who dnt pay attention to ur words enough 2 respond and when they do there voice is overlooked because of their age. Conversate with us, dnt jus talk TO us, LISTEN, see were coming frm, walk in our shoes and our parentless homes...beacuse jus because there's a women there who birth us doesnt mean she fulfilled the duties of a mother. Once again all blks need 2 stand up n take responsiblity, but its up 2 the older ones to show us what that responsiblity is, dnt tell show. If older ones are lookin 4 what went wrong LOOK IN THE MIRROR!!!!