With all the latest media hoopla and Donald Trump’s incendiary words with regards to women caught on tape we ask the following poll question
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Welcome to THEJNSREPORT’S: Crime & Punishment: Public Sex
As recently as dinner tonight the topic of conversation came up when our waiter during the midst of casual conversation told us that a couple down in Florida had been convicted of public sex on a beach in Florida and each were facing up to 15 years in prison for said lewd public sex act. The couple engaged in sex out in the open on the beach where adults and children were in full view of them and not in the water.
According to the news accounts the 40 year old male and his 20 year old girlfriend got naked and proceeded to have sex in full view of at least one 3 year old girl and several adults. Some of whom were shocked and disgusted at the scene unfolding in front of not only them but the child present.
One witness to the scene actually recorded the couple having sexual relations in full view of the public while another called the police. With all that information to digest, I ask the question. For the aforementioned crime
As a curious side note. Would it make a difference if the couple was physically fit and/attractive when factoring in your thoughts on their punishment? For example had the couple been both “unattractive and/or morbidly obese” would that have any bearing on the severity of the punishment to be levied?
And as a secondary poll question all things considered
Weigh in with your thoughts and votes.
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Welcome to THEJNSREPORT’S: Baltimore Unrest
by Akan Bosemann
Is America listening? If we take everything that has been happening since before Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Eric Garner, Michael Brown Jr, Tamir Rice, Akai Gurley, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray and many more going back to even before Emmit Till, and deeper into the beginnings of the slave trade, we can see a long trail of gun powder leading to a black powder keg the size of a Continent.
Speaking to a friend about the recent rioting and looting going on in Baltimore, we came to the conclusion that this is just the tip of the iceberg. CNN showed images of cop squad cars burning and being attacked. There are lines of police officers some without riot shields standing in a wait for the masses of rioters. An MLB game is cancelled over the concern for safety.
Why should anyone be surprised at the age of the rioters involved in Baltimore? The police have shown they will kill minorities at any age with impunity. What you teach children at an early age will become part of who they are if and when they grow into adulthood.
If you show kids that no matter what they do they are screwed, that there is no justice or recourse for them when they go about things the “right way” what logically should one expect to happen? What are we talking about here? The symptoms of a problem or the source?
The source of all of this isn’t the actions of the people who are rioting. They are the consequence of frustration over inequality of injustice, of poverty, of disenfranchisement, and the increase of awareness to rampant police brutality and murder against the same disenfranchised, poverty stricken, education deprived community.
We are all connected not just in this country but in this world. The problems of one’s neighbors if left unchecked and/or ignored one day become your problems.
If we adopt the attitude that it’s not our concern or that’s “their problem” eventually we will have to deal with the consequences of the ignored coming to where everything is “rosey”. Misery loves company and when there are more miserable people than there are content people, logic should dictate that it won’t be long before the miserable seek out the misery free to spread their experience or exact what they feel is owed.
Destruction of the property in the poor communities is sad but should it be taking precedence over the loss of black lives which has precipitated the violence and rioting. Hopelessness leads to irrational thinking. Some of my fellow contributors to this blog have mentioned it. Accountability is the “elephant in the room”.
Talking about the economic impact of the damage as a result of the rioting and looting again misses the mark. It shows what the real concerns are for the media. “Oh boo hoo, the CVS in these poor communities are destroyed”. Uh do you really think that the people who have nothing, give two shits about a multi-billion dollar corporations branch in their community losing a store? Is that the most important issue at hand? Look at where the media’s focus is. It’s sick. They care more about structures than the people.
As far as violence goes, why do we see people brazenly throwing bottles and rocks or whatever they can get their hands on at the police? They obviously are fed up with the abuse and the injustice. It’s a message to the oppressors “we have had our backs put up against the wall and have nothing to lose.”
Some think you can provoke unrest and expect people to sit passively and just take it. A reaction to the language of violence and injustice should be expected from any human being suffering from it. For those who say violence isn’t the answer. Well what is the answer if the justice system has shown its willingness not to deliver justice to the same affected people?
Ask the question, how did America get it’s independence again? Was it by being passive and hoping the monarchy of Great Britain would give them redress in the courts? I think the answer comes out a resounding NO!
Liberty or Death. Justice and Equality for All.
I encourage everyone who has read this to this point watch and listen to the Malcolm X Oxford Debate you can find on https://youtu.be/S3H2eul-50k and his speech on the House Negro and The Field Negro https://youtu.be/7kf7fujM4ag
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Have Eric Garner’s last words become a punch line? I thought this a proper question to ask when I saw the following while riding the subway this morning.
What are your thoughts on this?
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Welcome to THEJNSREPORT’S: Domestic Violence…A few thoughts
With the recent high profile cases of domestic violence (Ray Rice, Greg Hardy, et al) in the NFL taking center stage over actual football games, we are given a moment to pause and think about this serious societal issue that isn’t new or the latest scourge in the NFL, but a reflection of what is going on everyday within some families and households across the nation.
Domestic violence in society has two faces but the primary face is that of a man abusing physically and/or emotionally a woman be it a girlfriend, fiancee, wife, child/children. The secondary face which is often less talked about or recognized is when a female is abusing a male.
Most often this goes unreported or unspoken about for a variety of reasons. Men who get abused are viewed as weak, not masculine enough or straight up punks. If you doubt this there is a short video clip everyone should see.
How society views domestic violence when it comes to man vs a woman and when it comes to a woman vs a man. http://www.trueactivist.com The video entitled “This Disgusts Me!!! Would You Stop to Help This Woman?” can also be seen on Youtube. Double standards out in the open. Domestic violence regardless of who is initiating it should not be condoned or tolerated.
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Written by
Akan Bosemann
Is it truly a sign of the times? Or is it something more? Within a several week span we now have yet another murder of an unarmed black male at the hands of the police this time down south.
It appears there is a competition ongoing between the Northern and Southern states to see who can kill as many black males as possible and get away with it.
Both the deaths of Eric Garner and now Michael Brown Jr at the hands of the police occurred in broad daylight. No rioting occurred after Trayvon Martin’s killer George Zimmerman was set free to kill again.
No rioting occurred after the murder of Jordan Davis and his killer Michael Dunn found guilty of 3 counts of attempted murder due to the survival of his friends.
If he (Dunn) wasn’t charged with attempted murder he too would be free under the same “Stand your ground” self defense claim.
The precedent was set. All one has to do to justify murder is blame the victim and claim fear of imminent great bodily harm. Everyone ignored the fact that a grown man murdered a teenager because the teenager was black and claimed he was “afraid”.
The media has helped to portray and perpetuate this notion that black men are something less than human and worthy of being feared like big game animals in the wilds of Africa.
No rioting took place in the immediate after math of Eric Garner being strangled/choked to death in broad day light by police either.
Instead calls for calm and investigations were at the forefront. Talk of the victim’s arrest record were used as a red-herring to what actually happened.
Eric Garner’s body was left handcuffed even as he lay dead on the sidewalk after saying at least 10 times he couldn’t breathe. He was left handcuffed even as an “EMT” attempted (and I use that word loosely) to check for a pulse.
The latest killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown Jr. has sparked riots down south according to news reports and to me this should be expected, because open season has been declared on black people but especially black men.
Modern day lynchings are happening in broad day light. Our lives are mere trifles and after-thoughts to the police patrolling our neighborhoods and cities.
There is little to no faith/ trust left for many of us in the justice system because too often the system has failed us and let murderers of our people walk free to receive congratulations and pats on the back.
How can you expect peace if there is no justice? Too many of us are dying unarmed and for no reason. It’s like an older gentleman once told me. We hope for the best but expect the worst.
Growing up as a kid when I was picked on in school I only found that I was respected and left alone when I stood up for myself and fought back against my attackers.
This was and is my code. I held true to that code even as I was labeled as the problem child and blamed for my being bullied.
Bullies fear when the bullied stand up and say no more! Bullies are punks and cowards and only pick fights with those who they perceive can’t or won’t fight back.
We’ll have progress and real dialogue when the same thing starts to happen to cops at an alarming rate.
We’ll have calls for calm and stop the killing of unarmed citizens when it’s not just black teens, men and women being killed and forgotten about. It’s the way of the world.
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A Billion Black Voices
Written by T.D Moody
A billion black voices shouted at once
All in unison sounding as one
Why have you killed us
What had we done
Some taken before their lives had begun
Will we see justice under the sun
Hope in this cause expected for none
Gone from this world and our family’s embrace
To the lords kingdom away from this place
Where laughter, good times and smiles erase
Crying and tears and deaths bittermost taste.
R.I.P to Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant and all the black voices silenced from this world.
You know you are on the right path when the world hates you. They hated God too. When all the good people are gone from this world what will you have left?
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