Posted on 04/01/2007 1:08:28 PM PDT by lqclamar
he headline in African-AmericanNews&Issues’ June 22 - 28, 2006 warned that Black children are targets in Texas school systems and at risk of becoming pawns of the juvenile justice system.
Despite the numerous meetings, campaign speeches and pulpit grandstanding that promote Black children as “the future,” Black youth are constantly being attacked, written off and railroaded by police, judges, “Yes sum’” Blacks, White teachers, caretakers, principals and other school officials who have made deals with Willie Lynch and Jim Crow to sell our future down the river.
The latest flagrant case of Black youth attacks involves a 14-year-old from Paris, Texas who was targeted, set up by a school system and taken from her mother by a racist juvenile court system because her mother has been a loud, vocal watchman against the abuses and assaults on Black children in Lamar County. “A plantation mentality exists in Paris,” said victimized mother and activist Creola Cotton. “Black kids are being targeted, harassed and terrorized. I am outraged because of what happened to my daughter and for the lack of justice here.”
Cotton’s daughter has Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) and was trying to get into the building that day so she could get medication from the school nurse.
“ADHD is a very serious condition,” said Brenda Cherry. “This child was punished for her disability.” She was sentenced to a state juvenile correction facility “for an indeterminate period not to exceed her 21st birthday” for allegedly shoving a 58-year-old teacher’s aide. The 14-year-old was not known for having a combative behavior or being threatening to others and had no prior reports of incidents where the police were called to her home for domestic disturbances of unruly behavior.
Cotton wants the case overturned and her daughter returned home, but after spending $2,000 on an attorney to defend her daughter, she has no money for an appeal. A closer look at the case reveals that she may have a strong argument since the 14-year-old was pushed, shoved, verbally assaulted by the adult first and had to have medical treatment as a result of the encounter with the aide.
The girl allegedly admitted to pushing the teacher’s aide, Cleda Brownfield, who is white, after she was pushed during the incident, but no action was taken against her for assaulting the child.
Her case is similar to a 14-year-old Black juvenile in Dallas that was taken from here mother by the juvenile court system last July. In that case, a 14-year-old African American female honor student in Dallas was placed into state custody after the trial in the case for a freak vehicle accident involving damage to a day care center. That young lady was a model student and volunteer and was supported by as many as 17 school teachers, principals and other officials who wrote letters to the court on her behalf, but Dallas County official chose to take her out of the home of a hard working mother.
Cotton, who has been in Paris for over six years, and lifelong Lamar County resident Brenda Cherry are among the few African Americans in the county willing to stand up and fight the school board, police department and justice system trying to stop the brutality, profiling and other abuses against Black youth and young Black men. Cherry, who monitored the trial, said the case was highlighted by Paris High School officials cover ups, half-truths and the “loaded” testimonies and documentation from “Plantation Negro” and white teachers that improperly framed the 14-year-old as a troublemaker and a threat to the school and the community.
According to Cotton and Cherry, the district did little to meet the educational needs of an ADHD diagnosed child. Their alleged education plan for the 14-year-old involved putting her in a restricted setting for hours, preventing her from moving or talking and penalizing her and writing her up each time for violating their rules.
She is part of a growing number of Black and Hispanic youth in Dallas County that have a greater chance of being put in detention than more affluent White juveniles with the same category offense. Statistics in Dallas County alone indicate that as many as 80-percent of juveniles detained in the system are either Black or Hispanic. It was discovered that in the county, the majority of juvenile cases coming before Dallas County Juvenile Courts involving Black and Hispanic children. The constant railroading of Black children and caging of Black youth damages the short and long term psyche and affects the long range mentality of Black kids. These youth are not animals, but when you are treated like that on a continuous basis, it ruins self-esteem, outlook and trust in the system.
Many of the Black children in throughout Paris school systems are being tormented, documented and not given proper due process before being thrown out of the county. It was also reported that Lamar County District Attorney Gary Young and prosecutors argued against probation and home monitoring, charging that Cotton was perhaps her biggest problem – an attack on Black activism.
The group attacked Cotton for being an activist and speaking out for Black youth being mistreated in the system and for complaining about issues in the Black community.
It is quite amazing that prosecutors would say that the girl has no hope of getting better as long as she stayed with her mother. What is wrong with that picture? We are not talking about a mother who is a convicted felon, murderer or drug dealer. We are talking simply of a mother watching out not only for her own, but also concerned about the future of the “African village”.
Adding insult to injury were those Black educators who turned against their own race and attacked the 14-year old child.
In excerpts from Willie Lynch – The Making of a Slave, incidents and conditions in Paris Texas appear to mirror the kinds of images written about over 200 years ago. … The Black slaves after receiving this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self refueling and self generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands. Don't forget you must pitch the OLD black Male vs. the YOUNG black Male, and the YOUNG black Male against the OLD black male. You must use the DARK skin slaves vs. the LIGHT skin slaves, and the LIGHT skin slaves vs. the DARK skin slaves. You must use the FEMALE vs. the MALE. And the MALE vs. the FEMALE.
You must also have you white servants and over- seers distrust all Blacks. But it is NECESSARY THAT YOUR SLAVES TRUST AND DEPEND ON US. THEY MUST LOVE, RESPECT AND TRUST ONLY US ...
Evidence in the 14-year old’s case lends credibility to the modern day lynching going on with our Black youth at the hands of “safe” Negroes who have sold their souls to the master for crumbs and a few pieces of silver. According to Cherry, Michael Johnson, one Black teacher, even turned the 14-year olds words around making it seem as though the girl would do something bad to the school. Althea Dixon, another Black educator from the Paris District, never met Cotton, but testified during the sentencing phase in favor of having the 14-year old removed from the home.
Black preachers in Paris and Lamar County were neither outraged nor concerned about the way African-American youth are being persecuted and sent off. None of those so-called men of God raised Bibles, fists of defiance or demanded justice. Not one pastor even showed up at the trial or made any statement on behalf of the Black community.
Also at issue is the stiff penalty and intimidation Black face for speaking out in Paris. Officials are all but using the same principles used during Jim Crow to terrorize Black folk and scare them into a quiet state of fear and fright.
Cherry also believes that Cotton is a victim of a new Jim Crow system intimidating young Blacks and telling grown Blacks in the county to be good “Negroes” or else. “The message here is simple. Negroes don’t complain or question us or this is what will happen to you,” she said. “They want to get to us by going after our children.”
According to Cotton and Cherry, years of documentation, tapes and materials reveal how Paris school and police officials attempt to justify the harassment, pushing, beating, stopping and threatening of Black youth and harassing adults on a regular basis. “We need help here. We are being hurt here by the racist action of whites and the do nothing attitude of Blacks,” Cherry said. “Our children have no rights, no voice and will continue to be put down because Black pastors, leaders and community are sitting on its hands and helping white folks throw away our kids.”
Some talking points for you.
shaquandra or whatever has been released to her mothers custody..this happened yesterday I believe..
Another criminal is back on the streets. Plus she's in the custody of a mother who is clearly loony, based on her quotes in this article.
The story of a Willie Lynch "slave training" manual from 1712 is a rather ludicrous urban legend. There is absolutely no evidence of a Willie Lynch "slave training expert" from the time, or for the existence of the document before 1993. However, it has spread widely throughout the black community. When its veracity is challenged, the most common non-violent response is that the story is "fake but accurate." (Where have we heard that before?)
Its recent provenance can be seen simply by the wording.
"...this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self refueling and self generating."
Indoctrination, used in this sense, ""to imbue with an idea or opinion" was first recorded in 1832.
The concepts of "self refueling and self generating" refer to combustion powered and electrical machinery that just did not exist in 1712. There are other numerous ridiculous inaccuracies if one attempts to prove the document is from 1712.
http://www.umsl.edu/services/library/blackstudies/narrate.htm
While you are possibly correct about lqclamar's intent, there is nothing racist or inaccurate about his post as worded.
I've been to the Stormfront website and viewed their garbage.
Comparing this comments to that cr*p is hyperbole.
Criminal is someone who commits a crime. Assault and Battery is a crime. What this young punk did is A&B. So....tell me how calling her a criminal is racism?
"set up by a school system"
They tricked her into assaulting a teachers aide. Makes perfect sense.
"“This child was punished for her disability.”"
ADHD is real (though vastly over-diagnosed) but it isn't a serious enough disability to explain crime. The child was punished for assault.
"In that case, a 14-year-old African American female honor student in Dallas was placed into state custody after the trial in the case for a freak vehicle accident involving damage to a day care center. "
14 and in a car accident? Sounds like she was breaking the law by driving and that there should have been punishment for hitting the day care.
"reventing her from moving or talking and penalizing her and writing her up each time for violating their rules"
What else should they do for her? She can't be allowed to break the rules and disrupt class whether she has ADHD or not!
"excerpts from Willie Lynch – The Making of a Slave, incidents and conditions in Paris Texas appear to mirror the kinds of images written about over 200 years ago. "
This is an insult to the memory of those who suffered slavery. A thug girl who attacks a teacher and gets in trouble for it is very different from a slave forced into bondage. Insulting comparison.
"This ain't Stormfront. Let's keep the veiled rhetoric down a notch or two."
She was found guilty of assault. Ergo she is a criminal. He said nothing wrong.
Exactly what "rhetoric" is being "veiled" here? This kid was convicted of felony assault after she decked a teacher's aide without provocation. Now she's out on the streets again because the government caved to a bunch of bigotted Black Panther protesters.
Her mother is clearly a left wing loon who belongs to a Nation of Islam-affiliated group and believes there's a giant conspiracy by "whitey" to imprison her bratty daughter, who she believes can do no wrong.
Do you dispute any of that?
As for your false and unsubstantiated stormfront allegation, remind yourself of the rules of this forum: "NO personal attacks."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-070401shaquanda-ipix,1,716646.ipixpicture?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
She is VERY large and tall for a 14 year old. At the end of the video she hugs a man who looks like he's about 20. She's as tall as he is. The lady she assaulted is described in the papers as "petite" and "grandmotherly." It is easy to understand why the school district would consider her dangerous.
An aside: if you watch the video closely you can see that Cotton was picked up by a large entourage at the prison. She's accompanied by several men in dark suits and bow ties. One is clearly visible opening the door for her at 17 seconds. Another is standing behind her at about 22 seconds. I'm speculating here, but groups of men in dark suits and bow ties are tell-tale signs of the Nation of Islam. Cotton's mother and her spokesman - this Brenda Cherry lady - are both members of a group that is connected to the Nation of Islam according to the Lamar County DA's press release. The Nation of Islam was also present at the "Free Shaquanda" protests last week. I'll bet money that they're the ones who picked her up too.
What destroyed this kid is her parent for giving her a name like that, no wonder the kid is angry! Where is Al Sharpy Sharpton and Jesse Jerkson in all of this? Oh thats right thier east coast!
Sharpton and Jackson aren't there for a reason. This story's already been claimed by Farrakhan. Gogole Shaquanda Cotton and Nation of Islam. Their fingerprints are all over it.
The most frequent victims of crime committed by blacks are other blacks. One would think that leaders of the black community would be grateful that law enforcement is hard at work, removing these predators from their neighborhoods.
The problem is the bigotted nutcases like Creola and their left wing enablers like Howard Witt at the Chicago Tribune. Not only do they spit upon the decent, law abiding blacks who helped to bring this little punk to justice, but they've also managed to undo those efforts and set her free to torment and abuse her teachers again. Cotton, Cherry, and Witt are truly the scum of the earth.
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