January 8, 2011

Complaints About Uncle Whipping Nephew While Three Thugs Murder Six Year Old Girl

In the world of viral video, all the networks are scrambling to interview and tell the story of Ted Williams, a homeless man with a great voice. However, another video is grabbing attention among the Black online community. An Uncle, who was upset with his nephew beefing with people on Facebook and apparently portraying himself to be a teenaged gangbanger, gave his nephew a good ole fashioned whipping.

Video Rated Mature for Language and Violence



The man who obviously cares enough about his nephew to discipline him has received both praise and criticism. Some of the critics have been absurd and some even suggesting that this is child abuse. The teenager, who is big, received a couple of lashes on his backside with a leather belt. He was not punched in the face, beat with extension cords nor slammed into a wall or on slammed onto the floor. One of the more ridiculous criticisms had to do with how the Uncle was dressed with no shirt and pants hanging down saying he was setting a bad example. How absurd, the man is in his home, not walking down the street and perhaps his pants are sagging because he is using his belt to dish out some discipline instead of using it to hold up his pants.


The man should be applauded, saluted, perhaps given a People’s Choice special award. Perhaps if the parents or some caretaker took similar action with two teens that were allegedly involved in a gunning down a six year-old girl while she slept in her bed, just maybe that little girl would still be alive.

There was an expression of outrage when Detroit Police executing a no-knock raid allegedly shot and killed little 7 year-old Aiyana Jones while she slept on the couch.


However, there has not been nearly the same widespread outrage at the death of little six year-old Kenyatta Kendrick who was shoot and killed in a drive-by where two teens and a 25 year-old stand accused of a drive by shooting on her home.

Why is it when a cop stands accused of killing someone in the Black community there is near universal and widespread outrage, ensuing marches and protests and near riots but when the death of a Black child is alleged to be at the hands of Black thugs then mostly there is the “that’s a shame” reaction and that’s about it. No protests, no marches, no anger, no Red, Black and Green clad clowns threatening to kill thugs.


Who ever this man is, taking a belt to the backside of his wannabe thug nephew deserves praise and all the adulation that was heaped upon Antoine Dodson who was turned into an overnight celebrity after a Youtube video of his interview with the news media about the attempted rape of his sister went viral.

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January 1, 2011

Benjamin Jealous of the NAACP is a Charlatan





According to Wikipedia, a charlatan is “(also called swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or some similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, fame or other advantages via some form of pretense or deception.”

While the entire NAACP and its many autonomous chapters should not be condemned, the national leadership embodied by its leader and main mouthpiece Benjamin Jealous must be called out for his misrepresentation of the truth regarding the case of the Scott Sisters. The two sisters, Jamie and Gladys Scott have languished in a Mississippi prison plantation for nearly 17 years after being convicted of an armed robbery for which they had no part in, and sentenced to double life terms for eleven dollars. Governor Haley Barbour recently suspended their sentences but fell short of acknowledging the injustice done to the sisters and placed dubious conditions on their impending release.

Benjamin Jealous was exposed in early December of 2010 of using the Sisters in soliciting funds for the NAACP which contributed nothing to their legal defense or the efforts undertaken by Evelyn Rascoe, their mother, and Nancy Lockhart to publicize the case and recruit grassroots Internet activist to take up the sisters cause.


Today, Benjamin Jealous had the audacity to attach the NAACP name to the Scott Sisters again. In an article written by Jealous and published on the Huffington Post, he states,

“During the past two weeks, in response to successful grassroots campaigns, two governors have released black Americans who had been railroaded by our nation's criminal justice system. Together, these cases speak to the urgent need for the work the NAACP and our allies are doing to encourage more Governors to use their clemency authority as our nation's founding fathers intended by freeing more deserving people more frequently.”

While the substance of the article has many truths about America’s injustice system, he failed to acknowledge the sister's mother or Nancy Lockhart and simply uses the phrase grassroots campaigns. Excuse me but those campaigns had leaders and foot soldiers none of which were associated with Benjamin Jealous and while he states there is an urgent need for the work the NAACP is doing, again insinuating they played some major role in the efforts, unfortunately the NAACP did not see the urgency to take up the Scott Sisters case when they contacted for help many, many years ago.

Benjamin Jealous and the NAACP will be the topic of discussion for this January 1, 2011 broadcast at 10:00PM EST right here on Black Talk Radio News & Views, Bringing You The News You Can Use!