“My mother made the mistake of assuming that because she sent me to school in an integrated environment, I was going to get a holistic education, but that wasn’t true. I was never taught about Langston Hughes or Zora Neale Hurston. I learned that if I didn’t want to remain ignorant, I’d have to be responsible for educating myself.” - Kevin Powell

More sickness reported to us on a daily basis by our local news channels. This one is a little different though because it exposes how some laws operate and how men can be victims of such strict liabilities.

Now I for one do not surf the net, myspace or facebook looking to pick up 8th or 9th graders. However some men do, the two gentlemen in particular claim that they did not know the girl was so young, her myspace page mislead them. I wonder how you can be mislead by a 13 year old, I know that the hormones they are  injecting our food with have the tendency to make these little girls look like grown women but often their minds are far from mature. So I just wonder how a man who is 22, can be mislead by such a  young girl after they had a few conversations. I mean what is she talking about at 13, flavor of love and sequential math homework.

Her father is a shame of a man, he still allows her to keep this myspace page that misleads young gentlemen and still allows her to stay out late. Then cries foul when he finds out that she is sleeping around with older men. This sounds like some nonsense on Maury, the parents should be jailed for allowing this to continuously happen and not taking any precautions to keep their daughter from attempting to mislead men on the internet. 2 Gentlemen have had their lives ruined because of these lies, they will be labeled as sex offenders, and probably raped in prison once the correction officers spread the word on the block what these brothers are in for. I think the father should be arrested and the girl should be monitored or taken away from these careless parents of hers.

As a message to the brothers, please use your head and be more careful when meeting people off of the internet. This man is now spending time in prison and has had his life ruined because he hastily went to bed with this young manipulative girl. Statutory rape cases are strict liabilities which means the court does not care that you did not know that she was a certain age. Because you committed the crime, you will do the time and claiming ignorance is not a viable defense in these scenarios.

Am I Getting Punk’d:
So I’m surfing the net and I find this random video. WTF is going on, like this has over 100,000 views. If you’re looking for a good laugh just click the link!

Thoughts?

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I got this courtesy of my main man Mike Brown The Remix.
http://blog.myspace.com/mikebrowntheremix

This video is hilarious. When dudes take NO HOMO too far.
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DISCLAIMER: This is a very emotional piece that I wrote several years ago. As for an update, my biological father is now helping me create an avenue for men in prison to reach out to the outside world and share their brilliance. Inside the Wall will become a part of this blog very soon. I hope you appreciate the piece, many had responded while it was on myspace so I felt the need to share the contents with you. Happy Birthday George!

Letter to my unborn Father

Possibly the most personal statement I have ever made to date.

A child was born around 3:41am on the Sabbath Day, always knew the boy would be special because he was born on the Lord’s Day. Like a thief in the night his biological father took off running immediately. Not for good, only for two weeks but those 2 weeks of him missing in action foreshadowed what was to come.

A child is a child, I don’t remember much before the age of four except for maybe one memory at the age of three. Where the child’s mother was cooking, his grandmother and sister were there and a familiar man was at the door. Still that same father only this time he’s not running, for women are strong and when men ain’t shit they tell them to keep going.

Like I said women are strong, so strong it’s frightening if you’re not a strong man. So after a so-called father disrespects the very woman who bore his child with deception, lust, more kids, yes I said more kids; not by her of course, a strong woman leaves. Leaves to find her happiness, which she knows, does not exist within a man who could be so selfish and cruel.

So he writes a letter and the contents of it I will share with you:

Dear Dad,
When I was young I called you daddy to signify the difference between you and my real father. It was a symbol of our love, our relationship, and our connection. A connection I have come to the conclusion we never had. Growing up I knew plenty of kids whose parents weren’t in their life. Being born in the 80’s some parents fled to CRACK, some fell ill with a sickness they first thought was syphilis but today has become a Pandemic known as AIDS.

But many of us young black boys lost our fathers to the system better known as maximum correctional facilities. Sorry, you’re no political prisoner like Mumia, or Assata, NO quite frankly you broke the law and have been caged like an animal ever since.

At an early age I can remember knowing what the term pathological liar meant. My mother didn’t sugar coat things nor did she make them uglier than what they seemed to be. She raised me with my eyes wide open rather than shut so that I could see the wolves in sheep’s clothing. Pretenders, those who said they were with you but really were more out for themselves. Something all these years later I recognize is possible within any relationship, even ours.

In high school I was angry at the lack of a father role that you played. In college I had sympathy for you because I knew how they must have been treating you in those concentration camps, on the outside we are caged mentally but you were physically, mentally at times it seemed even spiritually caged. The trips up north were oh so hard, painful to see the one who is supposed to be your “supreme” in a state that is so desperate. It is unimaginable that this would be a man’s fate, HELL not a man like you, not a man whose mouth is slicker than Stacey Adams shoes. A man whose walk is reminiscent of Malcolm when he was strutting in Boston in them zoot suits. No not you! You, an alleged father, the maker of children who span this earth some aimlessly because of your lack of parenting skills.

I’ve tried to write this letter many times, please don’t mistake my tone for anger, God knows all we need is another angry black man mad at his deadbeat daddy. No my tone is more of disappointment, disappointed at how men can escape their duties. Not mad at you because we made peace four years ago in January of 2002 at that table in that penitentiary where I visited because I thought that if you died I would be somewhat responsible.

My mothers fine, strong as I wrote before, strong enough to take her children find a true man and raise them to be RESPONSIBLE. STRONG enough to go on with her life and find happiness, that’s all the little lady ever talks about, is being truly happy, I’m sure she is. My brothers are growing, their big now, intelligent young fellas, my sisters a nurse she’s doing well for herself. My father, well he’s doing well too you should see us in action. We play chess, laugh about old beatings I got from acting out. He’s a good dude, and I’m thankful I had a father. See a lot of kids cant say that I am just very happy that I can. See I realized that connection I thought we had is false. Years in the pen won’t change you, I won’t change you, she don’t love you so that won’t change you. Players who keep playing get played, they play themselves out, it becomes tired and hopefully they recognize the error in their ways. If not they are relegated to a lifetime of unhappiness, must be that Green Mile they talk about. I say letter to my unborn Father because after 22 years I realized I don’t know you and quite frankly have no desire to.