Posted on 01/07/2008 12:13:28 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
The Philadelphia School District says they will launch an investigation into a disturbing video posted on Myspace. The video shows two girls fighting as other kids and adults egg the fight on.
---snip--- In the background of the video, you can hear a man's voice saying "uppercut her, uppercut her." At some point, Shaquia says "I can't breathe." Another voice, a woman's says "I'll give you five seconds
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Not everyone. Most people know EXACTLY why it is the way it is. It's the people who live there, the priorities they share, and the way children are raised.
I thought it was Bush’s fault?
Yup. That’s our Great Society — caught on videotape. Thanks LBJ!
Well, it's somebody's fault, as long as that "somebody" is not a member of their own community, who are blameless for all their own actions and circumstances.
Lets be honest now.
If You Tube was around in 1964,you would have seen numerous fights,riots,”can jams”,etc at or around my all white suburban high school.
Yeah,its crazy in the hood.I know that all too well.But lets just not focus on one group.
Agreed but the adults were in control and took responsibility?
Apparently this situation as going on for quite some time..
True,thats the difference between our hooliganism and the madness in the hood.
We rebelled and acted irresponsibly and immorally in many cases.Yet we never questioned the fact that our parents had our best interests at heart and would bail us out of our stupidity.
Kids in the hood don’t have that.Like Tupac said,”In the ghetto its the blind leading the blind,a world of woe with no peace of mind”.
The black middle class has suburbiated out of the hood.Whats left is not very pretty.
I saw a show a while back that had punk kids running loose on the street that were making little kids fight eachother for their entertainment. The kids would get beat up and cry, and the older kids would justify it by saying,”Life is hard, we’re just teaching the kids to be tough.” Liberals teaching survival of the fittest.
Shaquia????? Wonder who she might be?
I thought Midnight Basketball was supposed to solve this?
I used to beg my parents to drive me to school, but my protests fell on deaf ears.
If You Tube was around in 1964,you would have seen numerous fights,riots,”can jams”,etc at or around my all white suburban high school.<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Don’t know where you went to school, but I was in public suburban HS in ‘64 and can assure you there was nothing like this taking place at our school. We didn’t need a wall around the school then, and the one truant officer assigned for well over 3000 kids considered it a bad day if a bunch of kids left school at noon without lunch permits or ditched a few classes. Kids would fight each other on occasion, but any adults were quick to break it up, not encourage it.
Most of the kids who got in trouble were nailed for smoking or ditching. I knew one girl who got pregnant and was visibly pregnant at graduation (she was married), and could count on one hand the others who were said to have ever been pregnant throughout high school.
"Riots?"
Uh huh.
I don’t want to tell you excactly where I went to school but it was no picnic at all.Little thugs used to extort lunch money.One fight was so brutal that the local rabbi wrote a front page editorial in the town paper denouncing the anti-Semitism surrounding the beating.Classes were often chaotic and kids would shoot bent pieces of metal at each other with rubber bands,Its a miracle no one lost an eye.
I have been in some pretty rough situations in the hood too.The difference is,as you noted,is the absence of responsible adults squashing the insanity.
I had a childhood education free from bullying, violence, and intimidation.
Of course, for many on this site, I missed a crucial character-building experience.
I had the same school bus drama.
What was so bad was that the friver rarely intervened.I guess he thought imposing any semblance of order was”not his job”.
After a while,I started walking to school.Good exercise and didn’t always have to watch my back.
You were home schooled? I often envy you guys. The kids at my government school were scum.
Shaquia is Shakeila’s sister!
My bus drivers were usually bitter old hags that would tell us to “SHADD-UP!”
Yep,riots.Or what would you call hundreds of students throwing food all over the cafeteria and turning over tables,then going out turning over garbage cans and pelting the principal with food and ice cream sandwiches?.
No,not excactly Watts,1965 but it could get pretty wild at times.
We had the same guy who did double duty as the school gardener.
He just plain didn’t want to be bothered.
Shaquia didn’t put up much of a fight. I’m just saying...
Private schools after 4th grade.
What can I say, government-run education has always been a bad idea, no matter where it’s tried.
I’m with you there.Nothing but liberal indoctination centers or vast babysitting warehouses for a lot of kids who should be getting vocational training.
I used to get beat up on my way home from Brownies (junior girl scouts) when I was seven. It was held after school, so by the time it was over, all the other kids and teachers were gone. My older sister had to come walk me home. That was in 1962.
After the first year of high school, I walked, even though it was over 5 miles round trip.
Pretty good exercise. I don’t regret it a bit.
By high school graduation,I was in great shape.Most of my return trip was uphill and I trudged up those hills with less and less pain everyday.
The rich kids driving their mommy’s station wagons would drive by and yell bad words at me.
But I still felt good.
Oddly enough, most of the return trip was uphill. :)
Did you grow up on the San Francisco Peninsula?
Nope. Missouri.
Not really all that hilly in the area. I exaggerated a little.
Today - it is virtually a NO GO zone for whites, and it wasn’t all that nice while I was there...experiencing a major “white flight” out of the area...
I walked to school.....through one of the most “troubled” neighborhoods in the area, and was frequently threatened, pushed around or cursed... I was a real stand out as a skinny late blooming little white kid - coming through the “hood”.
One day - it was over... I wasn’t going to simply keep walking.. I started carrying a “sawed off” baseball bat in my gym bag.
Days later it happened again. I simply stopped walking and waited for the first bozo to come within range of my 20” bat - pulled it and beat the unholy hell out of him in about 4 seconds... After the second one had a few licks to his shoulder and head - it ended, with both of them on the ground motionless and the third not moving toward me. I ran like hell the remaining several blocks to school with my bat still firmly in hand.
I guess I’m lucky I didn’t kill either of them...
Now, I can’t say this cured the problem..
Because I NEVER walked through that neighborhood again.
The balance of my senior year - I spent my short supply of money on the damned city bus to get to school —— but it made me feel REAL good to see my two tormentors with their freaking heads busted and them wailing like children...
Fascinating story.Yes,I know of Anacostia-isn’t it actually across the river near the Maryland border?
What you did should have got you much respect in the hood.I am sure the “brothers”who’s ass you whupped are still getting teased about”getting their ass kicked by some crazy white MF”!
I had a friend from Oakland when I was a teenager who went to a “changing”school in the Sixties.He got into two fights his first week at the school with black kids who tried to test him.One of those bullies later became his best friend.
And thirty years later I found my boy Eddie again-he’s actually got a black GIRLFRIEND now!
There is a school near me now where I sub at occasionally.Just a few white kids but almost all of them are
wiggers”.I still don’t know if they really are serious or are just trying to”front”in a clumsy attempt at acculturation.
Another funny sight is to listen to the conversations of the Asian and Mexican kids at the various schools.You hear variations of”What up,my nigga?Whats crackin’,dog?”
I don’t know if the whole thing is funny or tragic.
Yes, Anacostia is just South of the Anacostia River - which joins the Potomac a few miles to the West..
The Anacostia River is visible from the High School sports fields.....just a few hundred yards from the school.
The Maryland border is a number of miles South of Anacostia - but not so far to the Southeast, due to the diamond shape of the District...
There was a R and B group back in 1972 called Anacostia who had a minor hit called On and Off.
Riverman,the music trivia freak.
I’d get up at 3AM to have enough time to walk the 5 miles to school every morning. Just to avoid the stupid bus.
I used to get beat up on my way home from Brownies (junior girl scouts) when I was seven. It was held after school, so by the time it was over, all the other kids and teachers were gone. <<<<<
Don’t get me wrong, we had plenty of drama with kids in the neighborhood, but not riots at school, that just didn’t happen here, at least not in most of the schools that I heard of. We did have bullies, of course, and perhaps part of growing up was learning how to deal with same without lawsuits or injunctions. Older brothers would often step in.
I remember one kid who used to chase me on his bike and spit food at me, I’d slink about the neighborhood, ever vigilant that he would be lurking nearby. Years later, I hired a very responsible and highly recommended contractor to do some work on my home, and guess who it turned out to be. We didn’t recognize each other by name, and he turned out to be an excellent contractor and respectable family man.
It was a different time, with plenty of angst, to be sure, but I’d never trade those days to be a kid now.
The parents who spawned the vicious kids who beat a girl half to death a year ago Halloween are still suing and complaining of how their kids were mistreated, having to be locked up and all. When I was their age, I’d like to think that most kids would have caught holy hell from their parents for a similar deed.
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