I am pissed off and fed up with the way in which people are treating children. I am so sick and damn tired of hearing one sad story after another. In the last 3 days there have been 3 outrageously appalling stories on the news media. First there was the little boy that died of a toothache that manifested itself into an infection that went to his brain! All because the parents didn't have any other health care other than Medicaid and dentist do not take them. What most black people don't know is that they can get care for anything at any teaching hospital in their area.
Secondly, unless you have been living under a rock, many of us know about the young brothers in Texas that videotaped them getting a 2 year old and a 5 year old HIGH! They acutally showed their faces and thought it was very funny to get these youngsters stoned.
What in the blue hell possessed them to do such a thing and not think it wouldn't have any repersucssions! I was shocked, appalled, but most of all hurt that these children were harmed in this way. I don't want the excuse that their parents aren't around to guide them. I don't want the excuse that they don't know better, or that they are just teens and "didn't think it would hurt the kids"! I refuse to accept any lame ass excuse from anyone involved in this fiasco. These young men (because at 17, thats what you are) a young man, who clearly knows right from wrong, but chose not to give a phuck, gave drugs to a minor. I don't know about anyone, but I know that this enraged me to a level that I had no idea I could get to. The sad thing is that my gut is telling me that this isn't the first time this has happened with these kids and with these same young boys. I think they should be prosecuted as adults...and damn anything else...shit folks have got to learn.
Finally, there was a story in Maryland, where a woman left 5 children home all under the age of 6 in a basement apartment. The children were covered in urine and animal feces because this nut job had a dog (malnourished as well as the kids) tied up on a chain in her living room. Now if you saw the picture of the mother, you can clearly see that drugs played a major hand in her actions...but my question is "Where was DSS?" Didn't this woman have a case worker assigned to her! Why were these children living in squalor and filth! Its unnecessary in my eyes whent here is supposedly (and I said supposedly) governmental agencies in place to monitor these types of situations.
In all of these case, and many others that I haven't named, something went wrong way before any of this took place! Why didn't anyone see this behavior and try to stop/avoid it? How did our society get so phucked up and loosely monitored when it comes to the precious commodity of our children!
I am still pissed...and you should be too!
SassyScribe
Secondly, unless you have been living under a rock, many of us know about the young brothers in Texas that videotaped them getting a 2 year old and a 5 year old HIGH! They acutally showed their faces and thought it was very funny to get these youngsters stoned.
What in the blue hell possessed them to do such a thing and not think it wouldn't have any repersucssions! I was shocked, appalled, but most of all hurt that these children were harmed in this way. I don't want the excuse that their parents aren't around to guide them. I don't want the excuse that they don't know better, or that they are just teens and "didn't think it would hurt the kids"! I refuse to accept any lame ass excuse from anyone involved in this fiasco. These young men (because at 17, thats what you are) a young man, who clearly knows right from wrong, but chose not to give a phuck, gave drugs to a minor. I don't know about anyone, but I know that this enraged me to a level that I had no idea I could get to. The sad thing is that my gut is telling me that this isn't the first time this has happened with these kids and with these same young boys. I think they should be prosecuted as adults...and damn anything else...shit folks have got to learn.
Finally, there was a story in Maryland, where a woman left 5 children home all under the age of 6 in a basement apartment. The children were covered in urine and animal feces because this nut job had a dog (malnourished as well as the kids) tied up on a chain in her living room. Now if you saw the picture of the mother, you can clearly see that drugs played a major hand in her actions...but my question is "Where was DSS?" Didn't this woman have a case worker assigned to her! Why were these children living in squalor and filth! Its unnecessary in my eyes whent here is supposedly (and I said supposedly) governmental agencies in place to monitor these types of situations.
In all of these case, and many others that I haven't named, something went wrong way before any of this took place! Why didn't anyone see this behavior and try to stop/avoid it? How did our society get so phucked up and loosely monitored when it comes to the precious commodity of our children!
I am still pissed...and you should be too!
SassyScribe
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