Well, I guess in today’s society you can practically do whatever you want to a black female and get away with it. It’s reported that a Milwalkee “teacher” became so frustrated with a 7 year old student, Lamya Cannon that she took scissors and cut her braid off in front of the classroom. Apparently Lamya was absentmindedly playing in her hair during class (typical behavior for children this age). School administrator’s are characterizing this incident (I consider it assault) as the teacher simply being “stressed” out due to budget constraints.
Lamya Cammon is angry, confused, and scared by the incident last week in which the apparently frustrated teacher cut one of her braids off after she wouldn’t stop playing with them in class.
Cammon, 7, sports a few dozen braids, but one is conspicuously absent.
“She told me to stop playing with it. Then cut it off and sent me back to my desk,” Cammon said.
Cammon’s a first-grader at Congress Elementary and said her teacher used a pair of classroom scissors to cut off one of the braids after she absent-mindedly kept playing with them. Read More
So I guess stress is now an acceptable justification for assault? If the mother of this student became stressed and took scissors to the teacher’s hair, would this behavior also be characterized as simply a result of “stress” or would it be assault? Since when are teachers allowed to CUT CHILDREN”S HAIR? I’ve never read that as a disciplinary action in the schools I’ve dealt with – have you?
This teacher knowingly and willfully laid hands on this child’s person with scissors to degrade and humiliate her in class. She should be brought up on charges. People have been charged for far less than this in our society. It just depends on who the victim is.
I’m not in the mood for sympathizers – so I’m not entertaining it today. “Oh but AJ, the teachers have so much to do”. You know what? That teacher CHOSE HER PROFESSION. She knew when she took this job that she would be dealing with 7 year old children that daydream. If she can’t deal with typical behavior such as inattentiveness by a 7 year old…perhaps the heffa needs to take up arms and go fight in Iraq. Then she can get a clue as to what STRESS is.
BTW- the teacher was “punished” with a $175 fine for “Disorderly Conduct”. Yes……that’s it. She takes scissors to a child’s head and is only charged with “Disorderly Conduct”. SMDH
I’ve been going about my day trying to ignore the foolishness and uproar in this country by some folks because a sitting U.S. President was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. We have looked like buffoons around the world for the last 8 years with the Clueless Cretin of Crawford running our country into the ground. I for one am proud that our President was recognized and awarded for his efforts.
These fools have lost their minds. Why is it an employer can buy a policy on my life without MY permission. I guess they figure if they work you hard enough from doing the job of 5-6 people you’ll keel over in no time – simply more money in their greedy pockets. – cha-ching.
UPDATE: For some reason this popped in my head while rereading this post. It contains cursing (it’s Samuel Jackson) so if offended don’t click on the link and keep it moving.
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Last night my husband and I went to a football game. While there we saw friend of ours who happens to be Asian and of course has a Asian name. As he got closer we heard someone refer to him as “Bob”. We looked at each other with disgust. Later on the friend made his way to our bench and sat with us during the game. I asked him who the gentlemen was that referred to him as “Bob”. He told me it was his boss. My heart sank as this reminded me of the scene in Roots where LeVar Burton refuses to take his slave name “Toby” until beaten into submission.
While my friend doesn’t seem to mind (I’ve heard other’s refer to him as “Bob”)- I find this to be insulting and disrespectful. Why can’t folks be bothered to pronounce his real name? While it took awhile for me to learn to pronounce his name correctly – I did until I got it right. It’s not rocket science – it just feels like the right thing to do – call someone by their given name.
Yes, you read it right. It seems the criminally insane folks up in Washington are taken on field trips. How many degrees/common sense/experience would it take for you to realize that sending a mentally disturbed, known killer on a field trip is just not a good idea? I imagine with all the budget cuts occurring across the country, that many more people that should not be walking our streets will be released back into society. That’s kinda of what happens when folk decide they don’t want government intervention. I wonder how many tea baggers would like for this individual to live next door to them?
SPOKANE, Wash. — A criminally insane killer who escaped during a mental hospital field trip to a county fair remained on the run Friday, and furious residents and officials wondered why such a dangerous person was out in public.
Authorities believe Phillip Arnold Paul, 47, is heading to the Sunnyside, Wash., area, where his parents and many siblings live. The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office used a helicopter to search Friday, and officers also searched transient camps along railroad tracks in the area. The public was urged to call 911.
“He is in a bad mental state,” his brother, Tom Paul, told The Associated Press. “Why would they load him on a bus and take him to a fair?”
That’s a question many are asking.
Authorities at Eastern State Hospital are being criticized for allowing Paul to visit the fair despite his violent criminal past and history of trying to escape. Spokane County Commissioner Mark Richard has called it unacceptable, and the state Department of Social and Health Services ordered an immediate end to such trips and launched an investigation into the practice.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/19/phillips-arnold-paul-insa_n_292135.html
Yes, I know – I’ve not posted in awhile-but I just had to say something about this one. Nine states allow insurance companies to deny coverage by considering domestice violence to be a pre-existing condition. WTH?
When I heard about this I thought it must have been incorrect. Surely the insurance company is not this callous and cold right? Think again. These inhumane, bloodsucking crooks will not only pull the plug on Grandma but they won’t even help a woman that is being abused by her spouse – because it cuts into their bottom line. And to think “Tea Baggers” and their ilk are actually going to rallies to cut their own throats by supporting private insurance.
Insurance companies have used the excuse of “pre-existing conditions” to deny coverage to countless Americans. From cancer patients to the elderly suffering from arthritis, these organizations have padded their profit margins by limiting coverage to patients deemed “high risk” because of their medical condition.
But, in DC and nine other states, including Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming, insurance companies have gone too far, claiming that “domestic violence victim” is also a pre-existing condition.
Words cannot describe the sheer inhumanity of this claim. It serves as yet further proof that our insurance system is broken, destroyed by the profit-mongering of the very companies who’s sole purpose should be to provide Americans with access to care when they need it most. In 1994, an informal survey conducted by the Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee revealed that 8 of the 16 largest insurers in the country used domestic violence as a factor when decided whether to extend coverage and how much to charge if coverage was extended. Source
A man was so desperate to get money owed him by another that he attacked him with a coconut and a variety of other things.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Authorities say a suburban West Palm Beach man trying to get money from his roommate hit him with everything but the kitchen sink – including a coconut, a porcelain bowl and a wooden carving.
Joseph Lovett is charged with robbery with a weapon and false imprisonment in Saturday’s incident.
Lovett spent his 44th birthday Tuesday at the Palm Beach County Jail, where he remains held in lieu of $4,000 bail.
According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s report, Lovett’s roommate of 12 years, Alvan Cohen, 64, was at their home in the 3400 block of Rossi Court – near Haverhill Road and Okeechobee Boulevard – when Lovett came home drunk.
I’m still in disbelief that the man I listened to as I grew up with (in a sense) and had a mad crush on is gone. Such a sad day – but his music will live on. What a wonderful entertainer he was.
Reunions of adopted children and their birth parents are usually heartwarming moments in which tears flow and broken bonds are made whole in mere seconds.
At least that’s how it usually plays out on “Oprah.”
But that wasn’t the case last Dec. 13, when an Atlantic City woman came face to face with the daughter she placed for adoption 30 years ago after being raped.
This short reunion on the woman’s doorstep left her feeling “violated, in shock, and short of breath,” according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court, in Camden, and she believes that a division of New Jersey’s Department of Children and Families helped set up the traumatic event.
“Everyone would like to believe that these reunions are so wonderful,” said attorney Matthew Weisberg. “This one wasn’t. They didn’t have coffee together. My client went pale. She is devastated and continues to be devastated because her biological child continues to attempt contact with her.” read more
I can only imagine the pain that both the mother and the daughter are going thru, but I especially feel for the daughter. I imagine this woman (the daughter) has been pining away for years looking for her biological parents only to find out she was a product of violence and then be rejected by her biological mother.
Don’t get me wrong, the biological mother has every right to choose not to have contact with her biological daughter, yet I still can’t help but think how something good may have come from the two of them getting to know one another – in spite of the circumstances. I imagine the presence of her daughter may cause her to relive the horrible crime committed against her all those years ago.
