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while i have no sympathy for pigs when they get shot, i don’t understand how this boy was homeless, yet there was “a dozen relatives” in court to support him? what was he doing homeless at 17 if he had “a dozen relatives”?

They were probably those “fair weather” relatives who only come around for sentencing hearings, when you win the lottery, or to “hit you up” for some cash to hold them until the first.

PHUCK THAT, HE WAS A CRACK DEALER killing his own – the sentence should stay! suck pipe and die drug dealer

while i have no sympathy for pigs when they get shot, i don’t understand how this boy was homeless, yet there was “a dozen relatives” in court to support him? what was he doing homeless at 17 if he had “a dozen relatives”?

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DAYG715,

You hit the nail right on the head. If these people cared so much about him, why was he on the streets? Then again, for all we know he could have worn out his welcome everywhere he went, and there weren’t anymore chances.

“no sympathy for pigs” — ignorant ass

Yes, he was wrong for selling crack. I don’t endorse that. But he is 17. Where were his parents? Who introduced him to this lifestyle.

This kid is looking at 50 years in prison. His life is OVER, a kid.

This is really depressing.

Hey peeps. TGIF!!! I’m from Philly and while this guy’s sentence seems excessive, people have to realize that thugs have been killing cops in Philly on the regular. So they’re setting a precendent with this guy so people will think twice about shooting at cops in this city. Noone’s childhood is perfect,but that’s no excuse for shooting (randomly) at anyone. I can’t feel but so bad for this guy.

sad story ,for the cops that died and him

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This is sad, But also a testament to the lack of available resources in OUR community. Because where a white dysfunctional family fails, their community picks up the slack. The system failed this kid, he needed help long before this i’m sure……..

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This is sad, But also a testament to the lack of available resources in OUR community. Because where a white dysfunctional family fails, their community picks up the slack. The system failed this kid, he needed help long before this i’m sure…….

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I agree 100%.

I don’t know what to say, on one hand I feel sorry for this guy, I really do because he sounds like he really did not mean to blatantly shoot @ the cops, but on the other hand who knows what would have happened if he only got 5 years, got out when he was 22?? He may not have learned his lesson that fast…I just don’t know with this story…his life is still not over though, he can still make good of it.

NU…

tee hee & smh….

He, for some reason, reminds me of the kid from the Wire who ends up shootin up at the end. This is a sad story, think of how many innocent people the police have shot and not be sentenced to one day for it. This country truly is fu*#ed up. I’m moving to Canada, anyone got a parka?

Donyea Phillips, a 17-year-old runaway was sentenced to 25-50 years in prsion for shooting and wounding two Philadelphia drug officers. Phillips, who was homeless at the time, was squatting with a cousin in the East Frankford rooming house when the officers served a search warrant at the house a year ago.

Phillips, a suspected crack dealer who pleaded guilty in July to two counts of attempted murder and related charges, apologized to Officers Christopher Reed and Stephen Holts. Phillips insisted to Common Pleas Court Judge Glenn B. Bronson that he did not know police were trying to come through the door when he blindly fired through a window Nov. 13.

“I was afraid for my life,” Phillips told Bronson, adding, “All I’m just asking is not to lock me up and throw away the key, because I’m changed.” The prison term drew gasps from some of the dozen relatives in court to support Phillips because it’s above the 5- to 10-year minimum recommended under state sentencing guidelines. However, it was also less than the 32-1/2 to 65 years requested by the prosecuting attorney.

“I think this sentence was clearly excessive,” said defense attorney James A. Lammendola. He said he would file a motion asking the judge to reconsider the sentence.

Explaining his sentence, the judge credited Phillips with accepting responsibility by pleading guilty and acknowledged his grim upbringing: “You had a horribly deprived childhood, there’s no doubt about that,” Bronson said.

Kirk Heilbrun, a forensic psychologist hired by Phillips’ defense, testified that Phillips was the oldest of six children. Heilbrun said Phillips experienced mental and physical abuse by his parents and was largely responsible for caring for his siblings.

But the judge said Phillips’ background did not excuse the fact that he was squatting in a house, selling crack cocaine and spending $100 a day for marijuana.

“Sadly, other people have been in similar situations, but they don’t hole themselves up in a crack house and fire a gun at police officers,” Bronson said.

Reed, 32, a 12-year-veteran officer, was shot through the left thigh. He testified yesterday that the wound became infected and that he underwent six surgeries. After two weeks in the hospital, Reed said, he was sent home but was restricted to bed for two months. He returned to active duty May 15.

Holts, 40, a 13-year department veteran, said a bullet fragment hit his right hip and tore away a two-inch piece of flesh that could not be closed with sutures. He returned to duty in February.

Both officers said they were pleased with the sentence.

“I wouldn’t want anyone else to go through something like this,” said Reed. “I know it will be with me until the day I get buried.”

“It was an awesome experience – and I hope I don’t experience anything like that again,” added Holts.

That shyt is messed up but you know when it come to shooting cops and murdering cops they don’t play that shyt and they are charging 17 year olds like they are adults. Y’ALL NEED TO WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!

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@Laurn aka Philly and I’m Just me…Hello ladies. It’s been a minute.

Hey IJM, I’m ok.. just waiting for groceries to go down along with the oil prices. You?

Wonder where the dozen or so relatives protesting his sentence were were when he was homeless?

It definitely takes a VILLAGE.

Hey I’mJustMe and errrrrbody else!! TGIF!!!

not surprised. it’s the systematic eradication of black males. this dude was lunchin’ and needs to serve some time, but 25-50 years for wounding two people? for a minor??? GTFOH. it’s only because his name is donyea and not dustin.

also, cops’ lives are not more precious than anyone else’s. if anything, putting themselves in the way of danger is part of the job description. so i don’t understand why people catch bigger charges for victimizing them. that’s bu!!sh#t.

Southern Belle…hey hun! How’s school and the lil girl doin?

@Lauren…its going great and we are both very well. How about you and school and your little one? Are we married yet?

I co-sign with sweet_lies, with a sharpie.

He’s really gonna need that styrofoam cup with him. Lost on the ro-o-o-ad, he not gonna be in no rush anytime soon. Black males are endangered species all because of the cops.

Southern, That’s good mamma…babygirl is good she’ll be 4 this month and I am expecting another lil one in about 5 weeks!…yes we got married too! How about you?

…….ioono what to say…….

@Lauren…Girl I am so happy for you! We are getting married next month. We had to get that marriage councling out of the way first. Trying to do it right you know! What are you having?

No hope in that lil man eyes and he so young. America i ask did you ever give him the dream?

Southern…

I know that’s right, it’s never too late to do stuff right…I’m having a another lil girl!

@Laurn…congrats girl! Have a great day. I have to go to class so I will probably hollar on Monday. Take care!!!

When I read about his firing blindly out the window, I thought to myself what if there were children out there playing?

How many other people has he used his gun on and never got caught?

The sentence is just – it protects us and our innocent children from a bad seed.

Unbelievable…

Glad he received such a severe sentence…I hope he serves the max…DUMB JACKASS…and his lipgloss looks cutting!

WHY PHILLY, WHY?????????

IJM, thanks for the full story…I rescind part of my original comment.

My dad and four of my uncles are police officers so I automatically take offense to the pig statements. Although it’s true that racial profiling and inequalities do exist, Black America must accept responsibility for the lawlessness in our communities and misguided youth running lose in the streets. I volunteered with a few charities in South Florida for a years. There were many success stories, but I ended getting more disgusted in the end. It just seems like we are lost.

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also, cops’ lives are not more precious than anyone else’s. if anything, putting themselves in the way of danger is part of the job description. so i don’t understand why people catch bigger charges for victimizing them. that’s bu!!sh#t.

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OK…PLAYING DEVIL’S ADVOCATE HERE…but do you think they should do away with the laws about hate crimes as well? There are whites who argue that hate crime sentencing should not even exist since all crimes of violence are essentially ‘hateful’ in nature.

This whole story to me is just another of THOUSANDS where the system fails Blacks on a whole. Yeah I know it sounds cliche but hear me out…

It starts with the school systems, welfare benefits, employment etc. UNTIL things are changed there will be little advancement. Even if we made some minor changes in how we deal with criminals while in jail I think we’d notice a decrease in repeat offenders and decrease in our tax monies going to house and feed these offenders.

How is it that we spend the most money in THE WORLD on our school systems yet lag behind so many other countries as far as academic achievments? It’s because the monies spent are not distributed evenly and fairly. THEN when the kids who suffer from a loss of education, medical care and financial care are put out into the real world we expect them to funtion the same as those who didn’t suffer this way. IT IS NOT REALISTIC.

People can blame Blacks all they want for the state of Black America and yes we do have a part in our destiny but you cannot deny that our government has a hand in how things have played out for the last few centuries too. Racial profiling, disparities in school funding, voter registration fraud, loan denials, wrongful incarcerations, intentional family separation for welfare benefits, glass ceilings etc. HAVE ALL AFFECTED BLACK AMERICANS MORE THAN ANY OTHER GROUP IN THIS COUNTRY. You can’t expect a group who has been systematically discriminated against for the last two centuries to just up and recover in the last 50 years ESPECIALLY when the some of the same discriminatory activities still exist. However we are approaching a new age and things are actually looking up for us as new Black businesses have grown by 40%, more Blacks are in college now than ever before, and we even have a half Black presidential candidate running. Please keep positive and try to help your brothers and sisters to keep positive as well.

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Sad sad sad…

I just did some research on this young man, and this story makes me want to cry. This is from a Philadelphia Daily News article from May. His life was horrific:

The teen’s maternal grandmother, Susan Gavin, told a reporter that Phillips’ parents are first cousins. He was born to her daughter, Josette Phillips, and to her sister’s son, Willie James Taylor, she said.

“For one thing, they had no business having that baby,” Gavin said. She said she had tried to get custody of Phillips and his siblings, but her daughter “made it so I couldn’t get the kids.”

Gavin, Shirley Phillips and Donyea’s aunt, Terry Press, described an unstable, horrid life that the teen faced since childhood: living with a mother who was never around, then put into foster homes by the Department of Human Services, after which DHS put him in the custody of his father. (His parents lived apart.)

“His parents, to me, they just don’t care,” said Press, who is the teen’s mother’s sister.

She added that when Phillips lived his early years with his mother on Memphis Street near Cambria, Port Richmond, the mother would run around and do whatever she wanted to, leaving Phillips to take care of his siblings.

DHS took the kids before Phillips turned 10, they said, and put him in multiple foster homes. When he turned 13 or 14, he went to live with his father on Woolston Avenue, near Eastburn, West Oak Lane, they said.

The father, who was not in court, told the Daily News last year that his son ran away from his home about two months before the shooting incident because he didn’t want to abide by “normal, basic rules of a home,” including “no drugs.”

On Nov. 13, Phillips, then 16, was allegedly living in and operating a crack house on Orthodox Street, near Josephine, when narcotics officers tried to serve a search warrant. Phillips allegedly responded by firing at the officers, wounding two.

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good morning everyone!

Its6am

You hilarious. Whats more funny is, your probably black.

@6am

According to the news article I read (excerpt posted above), this teen’s parents are related, so this was a completely dysfunctional environment for him and his siblings.

I think that beyond his name and activities, this case is an example of the disturbing reality for some of our children. They’re not being given the guidance or opportunities for success, or even the love and security that all children need. This is a significant issue.

Also, to give you an idea of how big the prison industry is in this nation, here are some figures from a recent New York Times article:

The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners. Indeed, the United States leads the world in producing prisoners, a reflection of a relatively recent and now entirely distinctive American approach to crime and punishment. Americans are locked up for crimes — from writing bad checks to using drugs — that would rarely produce prison sentences in other countries. And in particular they are kept incarcerated far longer than prisoners in other nations.

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The United States has, for instance, 2.3 million criminals behind bars, more than any other nation, according to data maintained by the International Center for Prison Studies at King’s College London. China, which is four times more populous than the United States, is a distant second, with 1.6 million people in prison. (That number excludes hundreds of thousands of people held in administrative detention, most of them in China’s extrajudicial system of re-education through labor, which often singles out political activists who have not committed crimes.)

@ Jewish Woman (SMDH)

Youre funny too especially since you stopped trying to convince us all 5 of your fake pics are you.

And I know youre a white woman who just happens to be very unattractive.

@6am

I think this is a very serious issue that disproportionately affects our community. There are too many children whose lives appear “done.” This young man lacked a stable environment, was mistreated, and should have received counseling and direction.

It’s extremely evident that from his upbringing, he was almost destined to be in prison. He was failed from birth. Contrary to what ignorant, un-funny 6am thinks, his name was not at all part of his demise. If was the lack of care from his parents and community. Everything is a cause and effect. He is basically a product of his sick, hell hole enviroment. Looking at his beginning, what do you think the chances of him going to a Ivy League school and being productive in his life where? 0-none

He is the ultimate result of a person born to a broken home. It’s not like he came from upstanding parents, received the necessary care, love and attention he needed and deserved, to be a productive man and citizen. It’s a wonder how he made it this far in his life without being dead already.

God Bless him, he is one of millions in America. I also feel if he was a young white man, he would have had recommendations to receive re-habilitation, threapy, and counseling for his trouble up-bringing. Instead of locking him up like a animal.

I have no sympathy for crackheads or crack dealers. For those of you criticizing his relatives for not taking him in, I suggest you step outside your front door, grab a crackhead or crack dealer and welcome him/her into your home….and let the drama begin.

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@IlluminateTruth

Sure, this is a disturbing, and burgeoning, issue that affects all of us. I found more figures from the Sentencing Project, www(dot)sentencingproject(dot)org on incarceration rates among black men. According to the site, if current trends continue, one out of every three black males born today can expect to go to prison.:

More than 60% of the people in prison are now racial and ethnic minorities. For Black males in their twenties, 1 in every 8 is in prison or jail on any given day. These trends have been intensified by the disproportionate impact of the “war on drugs,” in which three-fourths of all persons in prison for drug offenses are people of color.

I think this is the catch 22 that alot of Black Males are involved in. Many are from broken homes, little guidance because the parents are all messed up. So he learns to survive by the only way he knows selling drugs. Yes, there are other alternatives and I know many young black men who rise above their situation there are so many who don’t because they don’t know how and no one ever taught them any differently.

The excessive sentence is just a testiment to how disposable black lives are in the eyes of the law. The judge does not beleive he can learn and become a productive citizen and because he is black noone cares.

yes he made the decision and he should pay but part of the judicial system is to rehabilitate and how can you do that when the chances of you ever getting out of jail before you are 60 is slim

What a shame…shame on the parents (mother and father) for not taking care of their child and giving him the correct guidance.

@IlluminateTruth

I wasn’t aware of the Mariott link, by the way. Thanks for the info. Below are more stats from a NY Times story in May on the racial gap in drug arrests:

In 2006, according to federal data, drug-related arrests climbed to 1.89 million, up from 1.85 million in 2005 and 581,000 in 1980.

More than four in five of the arrests were for possession of banned substances, rather than for their sale or manufacture. Four in 10 of all drug arrests were for marijuana possession, according to the latest F.B.I. data.

Apart from crowding prisons, one result is a devastating impact on the lives of black men: they are nearly 12 times as likely to be imprisoned for drug convictions as adult white men, according to the Human Rights Watch report.

Others are arrested for possession of small quantities of drugs and later released, but with a permanent blot on their records anyway.

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Sydney

Your stats are excellent. LOL.

At some point people need to stop blaming their childhood for their actions. A lot of people out there didn’t grow up in the most stable homes, but they don’t go out and become criminals either. Growing up with the worst should make you strive for the best, and at the end of the day we all know right from wrong. I’m sick and tired of people excusing these sorry punks that are destroying the black community.

You dont wanna go to jail for sellin’ drugs? dont sell drugs!

6am, the right answers at the right time……….even if you “dont’ wanna hear it.

Its6am and Trish…agreed. If you notice my post says the same thing: yes its sad that this guy had a rough start in life but he chose to keep roughin’ it and I for one don’t feel sorry for him. I don’t claim these kind of folks as ‘my people’ because ‘my people’ know how to survive without hurting people in the process. Someone like this has the means–and the mindset to kill any one of US on any given day so HELLS NAW…no pity here! I’m glad there’s one less criminal on the street.

@ vee and trish,

you’d be surprised how many black people feel the same way we do, this kid wasnt stupid, i bet he could balance the books in that crackhouse! I bet nothing ever came up short!

@6am

Do you think these problems are confined to the “hood?” They’re not — there are suburban kids who come from dysfunctional households as well and are engaged in potentially life-altering activities. Yes, class, in particular, poverty, is a factor in these issues, but there’s more at play. There are children lacking guidance and real parenting across class lines, and they’re suffering because of it.

I think we as a community have a damaged foundation. Our family structure is broken, and I believe some of our priorities are misplaced. There are too many people — including kids who can’t take of themselves, much less babies — who are ill-equipped to be parents, and it’s our children who are hurting the most. This is the next generation of adults we’re discussing, and unless we address these issues, generations to come will be impacted.

@Its6am-”I bet he could balance the books in that crackhouse.”

LMAO!!! So true, so true. I’m all for helping people who are TRYING to help themselves. But when you put me and mine at risk…I gots no love for ya.

@6am

Separating ourselves from the so-called dregs of society isn’t going to solve the problem. Ignoring the high incarceration rates of black men isn’t going to make them disappear (This has been an issue during this campaign because laws vary by state on whether people with felony records can vote). So creating categories of who is acceptable and who isn’t may sound like a short-term fix, but the long-term problem is continuing to fester. There are many young, bright minds that are being wasted and their lives are squandered or ended. That’s a tragedy that affects us all.

realwoman(Check me out!)

This whole story to me is just another of THOUSANDS where the system fails Blacks on a whole. Yeah I know it sounds cliche but hear me out…

It starts with the school systems, welfare benefits, employment etc. UNTIL things are changed there will be little advancement. Even if we made some minor changes in how we deal with criminals while in jail I think we’d notice a decrease in repeat offenders and decrease in our tax monies going to house and feed these offenders.

How is it that we spend the most money in THE WORLD on our school systems yet lag behind so many other countries as far as academic achievments? It’s because the monies spent are not distributed evenly and fairly. THEN when the kids who suffer from a loss of education, medical care and financial care are put out into the real world we expect them to funtion the same as those who didn’t suffer this way. IT IS NOT REALISTIC.

People can blame Blacks all they want for the state of Black America and yes we do have a part in our destiny but you cannot deny that our government has a hand in how things have played out for the last few centuries too. Racial profiling, disparities in school funding, voter registration fraud, loan denials, wrongful incarcerations, intentional family separation for welfare benefits, glass ceilings etc. HAVE ALL AFFECTED BLACK AMERICANS MORE THAN ANY OTHER GROUP IN THIS COUNTRY. You can’t expect a group who has been systematically discriminated against for the last two centuries to just up and recover in the last 50 years ESPECIALLY when the some of the same discriminatory activities still exist. However we are approaching a new age and things are actually looking up for us as new Black businesses have grown by 40%, more Blacks are in college now than ever before, and we even have a half Black presidential candidate running. Please keep positive and try to help your brothers and sisters to keep positive as well.

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While I do agree what some of what you say, it starts in the home

@ 6am..

whatever I still like the name Donyea!… as sad as your last post was, i’ll admit it was a little funny. But I just think that mentally aids in sterotypes. If he was a lawyer named Donyea, I guess the name wouldnt be preceived as that. idk? maybe people with those names give the names a bad name because of the things they do.

I dont like to name judge. But come on 6am, some people are bad people, no matter what their name is or where their from. Just like sydney said problems dont just exsist in the hood.

True, there probably is a bret poindexter III high on meth right now, getting ready to shoot up his entire high school……. im just saying.

@6am

OK, now you’re venting out of that “I’ve done the right thing, and you should do the same” frustration. But, guess what, not everyone has the same privileges or resources you have. There are children graduating from high school who can’t even read — how in the world are they going to make something of themselves? They didn’t ask to be here, and we’re failing them. And then we want to throw our hands up and say we want nothing to do with them. That doesn’t work. This issue isn’t going away.

Why is it whenever a black is sentenced it’s unfair? Did we forget he was a crack dealer? Does it really matter how he grew up? If so, does that give every person with a messed up child hood the right to break the law and then point the blame elsewhere? He’s old enough to know the difference between right and wrong, he knew exactly what he was doing. As someone else pointed out, he was blindly shooting out the window, not at the cops? That’s how little kids and innocent people walking down the street get killed all the time. So it’s okay he wasn’t aiming at the cops? The complaint about the failed system is just another exceuse. Did it ever occur to you it’s not the system but the people breaking the law? It’s no coincidence that the bad areas of the neighborhood that are filled with crime are mostly black. Stop playing the victim and blaming everyone else for you problems. You cry that you want to be trated equal, then step up, take responsibility for yourself and quit taking handouts. Maybe if you applied yourself and worked hard like every other race does, you would have the same lives.

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Why is it whenever a black is sentenced it’s unfair? Did we forget he was a crack dealer? Does it really matter how he grew up? If so, does that give every person with a messed up child hood the right to break the law and then point the blame elsewhere? He’s old enough to know the difference between right and wrong, he knew exactly what he was doing. As someone else pointed out, he was blindly shooting out the window, not at the cops? That’s how little kids and innocent people walking down the street get killed all the time. So it’s okay he wasn’t aiming at the cops? The complaint about the failed system is just another exceuse. Did it ever occur to you it’s not the system but the people breaking the law? It’s no coincidence that the bad areas of the neighborhood that are filled with crime are mostly black. Stop playing the victim and blaming everyone else for you problems. You cry that you want to be trated equal, then step up, take responsibility for yourself and quit taking handouts. Maybe if you applied yourself and worked hard like every other race does, you would have the same lives.

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Do we know if had a mother or a father to feed him? It does matter how he grew up…A young man will do what he has to do to eat..Now I dont condone him shooting two police officers, the see the negative issues that plagued this young man’s home or lack there of…I mean really he was homeless..

Ms Bossy you sound like a white niggette, scram too ho’

@6am

If that BLACK MAN has access to education and the job training to have access to employment with adequate wages, then, I do believe, that could help some overcome certain obstacles. But I don’t think this is by any means an easy-fix, single-layer issue. There are inmates who come from abusive, broken households and, as a result, encountered barriers and the choices that could have led them down a different road. I think there are various segments of our society that need fixing — our home lives, our schools, our values, etc.

What’s not going to help is throwing up our hands and not confronting the problem at all.

I was pumping gas and a little boy was asking people to pump their gas for money.. He could have been no more than 8 years old…And people ask how could a young man end up like this

Why 6am because I use proper grammer?

@ redd,

lets go visit that crackhouse, i bet it had electricity, if it did it had a tv, a fridge stereo and beds, the water was on so they had a toilet and a shower…….thats a home for somebody.

@6am

Brother, you know I have a lot of respect for you, but, believe me, there’s a whole other world out there of which you’re woefully unaware. Like you, my parents also both worked, and my brother and I would do our homework, chores, etc. until they came home. But the point is, they came home, they encouraged us to excel academically, and our every need was met. That’s not the reality for a lot of kids.

A lot of our kids are raising themselves, they’re doing without, and they’re angry, depressed, and without direction.

I say give him therapy in prison, after 30 years let him out he should be fine.

That’s nice Nina and exactly why you have the reputation you do. It’s called ignorance. Whenever you feel threatened you lash out. I don’t know what Bossy was saying but I wasn’t attacking you so why the name calling? You know nothing about me, besides if I had a choice I’d rather live in a trailer park and work at Denny’s than live on Section 8, with my food stamps and 6 babies with no daddies.

@6am

I say “our” because I do believe we are connected. As African Americans, we have a unique history — our community has survived some of the worst atrocities imaginable because of our connectedness. I truly believe that we’re seeing more problems now because our community bonds have been weakened, and you see more of a “Me First” mentality now than you did in the past. The “I” versus “Us” social construct isn’t working, in my opinion.

Sydney(Check me out!)

@6am

I say “our” because I do believe we are connected. As African Americans, we have a unique history — our community has survived some of the worst atrocities imaginable because of our connectedness. I truly believe that we’re seeing more problems now because our community bonds have been weakened, and you see more of a “Me First” mentality now than you did in the past. The “I” versus “Us” social construct isn’t working, in my opinion.

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Sydney…. you are sooooo correct. That was a perfect example of how before we took on this I’m doing me ” attitude we had a stonger foundation as a people. You make alot of sense. well I cant change people’s views, but it makes me happier to know that I helped others on my way journey to the top. Most likely someone sacrificed something for any of us to be wherever we are.(whether they are aware of it or not) There are blacks who are dead, just so we can sit up on this very blog right now. It’s about being grateful. I believe some people have no hope and cant be helped, but does that mean the ones that are just caught up have to be left by the wayside. I dont like to think so. It’s not about saving the world. It’s about trying to do your little part, which ultimately through time, makes our communities better places to live.

Im seriously considering adopting a child once I have my own, but you better beleive I wanna meet the parents first, oh and the kid can be no darker than a paper bag plus have good hair.

@6am

Now, brother, I had to tell you what HBCU stood for not too long ago, so I do think there are some cultural aspects that you may be unaware of, lol.

In regards to the money issue, I can’t read the brother’s mind, but I do think materialism is rampant among us, one of the many reasons I hate most of today’s music (not that that’s entirely to blame, but I’ve heard children on the city streets reciting obscene music lyrics word-for-word). Listen to many of the current songs and they’re about money, violence, and sex. Turn on the TV and what do you see. Go to the movies and what do you see.

So if Mom and Dad aren’t home, or really in the picture, and you’re being raised on a steady diet of the latest rappers and BET, what are you learning?

Oh and red, black people are doing just fine over here.

6am.”oh and the kid can be no darker than a paper bag plus have good hair.”

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Please tell me that was another one of your distastefully retarted jokes? I hope your not serious

Of course he’s changed…he got caught and is on trial for serious offenses…anyone who wouldn’t “change” after that is stupid…but it’s hard to really know if people are ever sincere. He definitely deserves to be in jail but until he’s an old man…who knows…not all cops are bad..they were chasing a drug dealer at the time of the shooting who shot at them…they were not vigilante cops messing with innocent people…

@ sydney and red, just how long have i been saying you should execute every deep south rapper except for scarface, luda and andre 3000? ya’ll mainland black people shouldve burned down BET 15 years ago

Of course it was a joke, read right under my statement

@Nina Knows

“That was a perfect example of how before we took on this I’m doing me ” attitude we had a stonger foundation as a people. You make alot of sense. well I cant change people’s views, but it makes me happier to know that I helped others on my way journey to the top. Most likely someone sacrificed something for any of us to be wherever we are.(whether they are aware of it or not) There are blacks who are dead, just so we can sit up on this very blog right now. It’s about being grateful. I believe some people have no hope and cant be helped, but does that mean the ones that are just caught up have to be left by the wayside. I dont like to think so. It’s not about saving the world. It’s about trying to do your little part, which ultimately through time, makes our communities better places to live.”

Sista, I couldn’t have said it better myself. There are some who will not reach out to help, and that is their right. But those who are willing to look beyond themselves have the capacity to make a real difference. If you can touch one life or change one person’s direction, that is a success that will be carried on for years to come. Life is bigger than any one individual person.

The good hair part wasnt a joke, you know how hard it is to find black hair care products over here? you damn near gotta go on the military base in between their pay periods!

Bill Cosby for president 2012! he was right!

I’M JUST GLAD HE DID NOT SHOOT SOME INNOCENT BYSTANDERS. THAT HAPPENS WAY TOO OFTEN.

HOPEFULLY HE CAN COME OUT A BETTER PERSON AND BE A HELP AND NOT A HARM.

I WISH HIM, THE OFFICERS & THIER FAMILIES WELL……….

@6am

All black hair is “good” hair, love.

Yall wild in here today! I might as well get some popcorn… and sit back and watch the fire works!

@ sydney,

I dont ever remember MLK mentioning Bumpy Johnson, Stepin’ fetchit or Amos n Andy in any of his speeches.

@ Lisa, youre not 1/2 black, youre a 100% white niggette pretending to be 1/2 black, i can tell by youre typing.

@Its6amHoGetOut To be so dignified you surly do have a ghetto screen name. Just an observation

@Hot sauce

A hoodhoe must have broke your heart cuz your too mad! LMAO

It’s 6am….goddamn if you don’t make all the sense in the world. We must have been separated at birth.

But you are so wrong for wanting a ho to leave just because it’s 6am. lmao.

Good hair is simply hair that grows healthy. It has nothing to do with texture. Just because you dont know how to comb it doesnt make it bad, just makes you bad at it!

@6am

No, you didn’t hear Bumpy Johnson’s name in Dr. King’s speeches, but the plight of the impoverished was one of his primary concerns, and it was a cause he was working on when he was assassinated (He was advocating on behalf of sanitation workers in Memphis). He labored to provide a voice for the voiceless. That was his legacy, and I believe it is ours as well.

i gotta go ya’ll

Bye, 6!

white niggettes get extensions to make their hair longer or fuller.

deep south real niggettes know that the fatter you are the more ridiculous your head should look….. so it takes attention away from your body

bye

@6

I apologize for not sounding as “black” as you do. Must be that education I worked my ass off to get.

I quit trying to sound ghetto when I got the hell out!

I am from frankford in Pjhiladelphia and i remember this incident which took place last year. This happened around the time when the cops were getting killed…the streets were blocked off for hours…this happened rite around the corner from my house,,,itz ashame that i have to say it really wasn’t big thing at the time cuz in FRankford we are use to hearing gun shots so much but i remember this…i actually seen Phillips before around the neighborhood but i do not kno him…i think they should have gave him a lighter sentence and they should have took his upbringing into consideration he was only 17 with no one and he was homeless and we learn from our environment…Frankford is definately high with our crime rate another cop jus got killed a couple weeks ago.

po chile…po po chile

im more ghetto than 1 year olds walking down the street in only a diaper, im more ghetto than my car payment being more than my rent, im more ghetto than liquor stores and liquor ads on every corner, im more ghetto than harassing the postman on the 1st and 15th, im more ghetto than shootouts at a welcome home party, im more ghetto than house slippers and curlers worn out to dinner.

Ugh, my last comment didn’t post. . .

@6am

“im more ghetto than house slippers and curlers worn out to dinner.”

There’s nothing wrong with this — that’s haute couture. J/K!

@IlluminateTruth

“Unfortunately, it seems that when we have “made it” (whatever that is) we tend to turn our backs on our own kind. Then, the “have-nots” are calling the “haves” sell outs and the “haves” respond by calling the “have nots” crabs in a bucket.”

Yes, this is nothing new — There have been books written about this complex issue.

Nina Knows wrote, “Good hair is simply hair that grows healthy.”

I’m 35 years old, and that’s not what ‘good hair’ meant at all when I was coming up. I hope you’re right for the present, wherever you’re at.

But ‘good hair’ where I’m from has always meant ‘white hair’ or ‘indian hair’, which meant ‘straight or wavy’. When black gossip sites talk that mess about, say, Chili’s ‘baby hair’, we’re getting into the same ish as well, using a different phrase.

A ‘fro/kinky hair, no matter how well maintained or nice looking, was NOT ‘good hair’ where I’m from — the midwest.

The opposite of ‘good hair’ is ‘nappy headed’. Or at least, it was.

Hey Vee-TGIF, two words for you: Amadou Diallo. Wait, two more: Sean Bell. Sorry, just two more: Cops walked.

@KENNEDY wrote, “This is sad, But also a testament to the lack of available resources in OUR community. Because where a white dysfunctional family fails, their community picks up the slack. The system failed this kid, he needed help long before this i’m sure……..”

Too true.

I been teaching high school for a few years now and this is what I have been saying all along. If they spent the money that they use to lock these kids up for 30+ years on some type of intervention when they are 8 and 9 years old, we wouldn’t have this problem. I honestly feel bad for him. Where are the rec centers in Philly, where are the social workers and potential mentors and teachers who could have tried to help this boy before he got to this point?

I apologize for the typos

Oh please..i don’t care. This is the same type who breaks into my car, steal what I work for and do everything other than being an upstanding citizen. Everybody wanna pity them when they get caught up, where is everybody before that???? I’m sure if the victim was a family member, many wouldn’t be so forgiving. Send them all to Iraq! Let them go fight.

I guess thats what happens when you become a crack dealer and fire thru windows and doors. I really doubt that he would of went to the local rec center over selling drugs even if it was an option. Hopefully his little ass gives good head

@illuminate

A bunch of words put together that sound good, But the issue is no one can help you unless you want to be and help yourself first. Period.

@ illumminate

YES!!! Words put together that has no action is just that: A BUNCH OF WORDS PUT TOGETHER THAT SOUND GOOD. So your words are hopeless. Since you have all the answers, why don’t you make it your duty to save them.

why is it, when they see black skin the judges find it easy and satisfying to pass the harshest sentence?

be it police ,be it judge, they feel at ease and happy to destroy anyone who have black skin or black friend.

The reason jails are filled with black people is not so much unfair sentencing, its because we as a people are out here commiting crimes and the judicial system puts us in jail at higher numbers than they do whites. The solution to the problem is simply put DO NOT COMMIT CRIME and you will not become a statistic. As far as the asshole who shot blindly through a window (endangering everyone around) put his ass in jail for at least 10 years, when he gets out, if he decides to partake in criminal activity again put him back in jail for another 10. Selling drugs is one thing, but attempting to take someones life is a whole different matter. The reason I say this is because people have a choice whether or not they want to buy drugs, but they don’t have choices when theres rampant gunfire and innocent victims being hit by stray bullets. Stop the violence and stop making excusses for violent people. That would go for all people, black, white and yellow.

A few cops were shot and killed earlier this year in Philly…so I’m sure that the police dept. wants to send a clear message to the community. Don’t kill cops! Don’t shoot or kill anyone! The young man shot two people…whether they were police officers or not…this crack dealer deserves to go to prison and the term is not excessive. What if the officers would have died? The police officers put their lives on the line to clean up our communities…not theirs…but ours. So when we hate on them so much…why should any of them want to help? For those that hate cops…who are you going to call when the thugs attempt to rob you or break into your home? If there were no cops…imagine all of the crime that would take place! Especially in the hood…So remember…some cops are idiots…but most are good people. Stop comitting crimes and you won’t go to jail.

Before blaming the system for failing the black community, people should also take a look at the upbringings and the families in the black community. The main problem is there is NO LOVE IN THE HOUSEHOLD, when there is no love, how would the child show love or respect to others? obviously, the child is not taught how to love or never shown how to respect someone. so in turn, the child would not respect oneself and others. why do you think many criminals and the majority of prisoners, are from broken homes and raised in bad families? I believe it is mommy and daddy fault, and if thats not the case their relatives or guardians that should be put to blame.

I think his sentence was excessive. He should of received 10-15 years maximum. His childhood was horrific.

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this happens all the time where i’m from a class mate of mine got 30 years for robbing a store he was 19 his whole if is gone he made one mistake and it’s over he was a good kid

@Kennedy,

No, the system didnt fail this kid. The system doesnt have sex, get pregnant, and gives birth to unwanted children. He parents failed him. Actually his mother did.

@sweet_lies,

“it’s the systematic eradication of black males”

at the hands of other black males.

@Red Tony,

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Kigali

‘At the end of the day, it always goes back to the incompetence of the black female. If she isnt raising thugs, she is raising pussies.Its the black female who orchestrates these poor environments’

You tell them.