IT WAS A GIRL WALKING DOWN THE STREET SHE HAD SOME LITTLE SHORTS ON AND A LITTLE TOP AND AT FIRST THE GUY TRY TO TALK TO HER AND SHE DID NOT WANT TO TALK TO HIM.SO HE TOUCHED HER AND SHE TOLD HIM NOT TO PUT HIS HANDS ON HER NO MORE OR SHE GONNA GO GET HER BIG BROTHER.HE DONE SLAPPED THIS GIRL. SO SHE WANT TO GONNA GO GET HER BIG BROTHER AND STUFF.THATS HOW STUFF BE GETTING STARTED.THATS HOW PEOPLE BE GETTING KILLED PUTTING THEY HANDS ON PEOPLE THEY DONT EVEN KNOW.
MY BROTHER BE THIS LIKED THIS TO BE.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
getting played
the reason for this neglect are manifold.mainstream criminology has long been criticized for its insufficient attention to both women and gender androcentric perspectives continue to guide much criminological research and theorizing leading to both an exclusive or implicit focus on mean and boys and a failure to seek explanations for crime and victimization that take gender seriously as a struction interactional and symbolic source of inequality.
Chapter 2 - Gender n' the 'hood
In class this week we talked about Chapter 2 and gave our opinions on it. One topic that sparked controversy in the class was this question: Who fault is it when it comes to rape? Is it the Females or the Males? Under which conditions do this happen?
Majority of the class could not agree with one specific gender in which these things occur. I say it's half and half. The boys are the ones who feel like they have to show off in front off their friends and approach a young lady any way they please. But what is attracting these young men? I have to say it is the young ladies and the way they present themselves. Presentation is the way you dress, speak, and carry yourself in public. Girls these days want attention and therefore they wear short and tight clothes. Then they get mad when a boy approach them the wrong way. If you want respect, look like you want respect.
I have to say it's not always the young people's fault. They are taught by their environment and what they see. When they were younger they probably saw older girls dressing the way they do now and that is what they desire. On the other hand with the young men they don't have a lot of men who respect ladies and if they are men like this the action of being respectable is not exhibited around these young men. How can we blame these young people when the adults are not during their job? The most important question is how can we fix this problem?
My final opinion on this topic is that it is the adults, young ladies and the young men fault that this problem is occurring. The adults should lead by example! But The young ladies and the young men have to pick up their own slack and become better role models for the upcoming generation. The young ladies need to learn how to present themselves in the world and the young men need to learn how to approach a young lady.
-Buttercup/Breanna Cousin
Majority of the class could not agree with one specific gender in which these things occur. I say it's half and half. The boys are the ones who feel like they have to show off in front off their friends and approach a young lady any way they please. But what is attracting these young men? I have to say it is the young ladies and the way they present themselves. Presentation is the way you dress, speak, and carry yourself in public. Girls these days want attention and therefore they wear short and tight clothes. Then they get mad when a boy approach them the wrong way. If you want respect, look like you want respect.
I have to say it's not always the young people's fault. They are taught by their environment and what they see. When they were younger they probably saw older girls dressing the way they do now and that is what they desire. On the other hand with the young men they don't have a lot of men who respect ladies and if they are men like this the action of being respectable is not exhibited around these young men. How can we blame these young people when the adults are not during their job? The most important question is how can we fix this problem?
My final opinion on this topic is that it is the adults, young ladies and the young men fault that this problem is occurring. The adults should lead by example! But The young ladies and the young men have to pick up their own slack and become better role models for the upcoming generation. The young ladies need to learn how to present themselves in the world and the young men need to learn how to approach a young lady.
-Buttercup/Breanna Cousin
Sunday, November 6, 2011
My Relations to the Hood!
One particular section in this chapter stood out to me, and that section was titled Living in the 'Hood. This particular section stood out to me because being a native New Orleanean you can relate to the problems that each of these interviewers experienced in their neighborhoods. Reading this broke my heart as she described how the sreets looked as she walked them daily and I can relate to seeing broken bottles and paper flowing down the sreets of Frenchmen and Claiborne.
Being a citizen of New Orleans you experience things that you definitely should not be experiencing, such as the dead bodies that you find lying in the middle of the streets after a shoot out has taken place. It seems as though Cleshay has a lot of knowledge relating to the streets but she regrets what goes on in them. I found that she spoke honestly and released he frustration during her interview. She spoke of a little girl being raped and questioned how can you not hear her screams? That is a real question, how can you not hear the screams of a baby girl? Its not the fact that they didnt hear them they refused to hear them. I can recall a little girl being dragged into an abandoned house and raped just about three years ago as well right here in my home town. I find that it is sad that our communties are like this. A community is suppose to act as one and now a days we dont fight as one we decide to fight one another.
I think we all can relate to this chapter because it is based upon facts and not thoughts. We can also relate the harrassment and neglect of the police officers in our city. I can especially relate to this situation because i actually know someone personal who was harrassed for walking up the street and was told he looked like a nigga that had just robbed someone, all because he was a black male.
I can also recall watching a video in 4th period about caucasians moving into the suburbs due to the violence that was coming into their communties and it seems as though our race was doing the same exact thing in the hood. I say this because Cleshay mentioned that they did not know hoe to take care of their houses and they then decided to move into another and took care of that one with the same treatment which provides our community with an enormous amount of abandoned houses. More house that you have to chech for dead bodies and drugs, This is pathetic. People keep these tragegies alive in the streets and teaching our youth the wrong thing in life we need to make a change but we cant do it alone and it wont just happen over night.
-Bubbles/ Jen'Brica Harris<3
Being a citizen of New Orleans you experience things that you definitely should not be experiencing, such as the dead bodies that you find lying in the middle of the streets after a shoot out has taken place. It seems as though Cleshay has a lot of knowledge relating to the streets but she regrets what goes on in them. I found that she spoke honestly and released he frustration during her interview. She spoke of a little girl being raped and questioned how can you not hear her screams? That is a real question, how can you not hear the screams of a baby girl? Its not the fact that they didnt hear them they refused to hear them. I can recall a little girl being dragged into an abandoned house and raped just about three years ago as well right here in my home town. I find that it is sad that our communties are like this. A community is suppose to act as one and now a days we dont fight as one we decide to fight one another.
I think we all can relate to this chapter because it is based upon facts and not thoughts. We can also relate the harrassment and neglect of the police officers in our city. I can especially relate to this situation because i actually know someone personal who was harrassed for walking up the street and was told he looked like a nigga that had just robbed someone, all because he was a black male.
I can also recall watching a video in 4th period about caucasians moving into the suburbs due to the violence that was coming into their communties and it seems as though our race was doing the same exact thing in the hood. I say this because Cleshay mentioned that they did not know hoe to take care of their houses and they then decided to move into another and took care of that one with the same treatment which provides our community with an enormous amount of abandoned houses. More house that you have to chech for dead bodies and drugs, This is pathetic. People keep these tragegies alive in the streets and teaching our youth the wrong thing in life we need to make a change but we cant do it alone and it wont just happen over night.
-Bubbles/ Jen'Brica Harris<3
GettingPlayed
First when reading the title "Getting Played" I thought of something that happens at school to some children all the time. When cracking jokes, people can sometimes be like " Oh, I feel played". Well in the story a main part that I really thought stood out to me was when they were taking a picture and girls would turn around showing their backs meanwhile guy would rep gangs. Also the type of disrespect that men showed to women, only because of the way women carry themselves. Having whore-like ways gives guys the opinion thinking they can do anything. In human life, people go through these types of problems all the time. We see it everyday, well it happens even if we don't knowtice it. On the first page of the story it says "This book should not read as a indictment of Young Black men and their treatment of their female peers". Well, reading this, it gives all thought in the world for this story to be exactly about that. Girls should have respect for themselves, and know better. Knowing better and doing better would give you a better reputation towards your peers.
Blossom- Brishawn Perkins
Blossom- Brishawn Perkins
Blindsided ... Getting Played Chapter 1
This is my type of story. The part I will blog about today will be the parts that stood out the most to me. When reading stories and passages the beginning always sticks out the most because it is the focus and main part of story.
Getting played? What does that mean? When I hear the phrase “getting played” I think of the meaning of being blindsided. To be blindsided is to attack someone when they are most vulnerable. It is commonly used as a football term, but it is a word that can easily be transferred to our daily lives. I think it means that the girls in the African American community are not being shown the right way. Even though they do not know the right way they are still being criticized by their actions. That is not right and therefore they are getting played.
The author made some very clear points about young African American girls and how they act. She talked created a vivid as well as a very familiar picture of how these young ladies present themselves. Just like in her story she talks some about how they take their pictures. They face backwards toward the camera to show their backsides and turn their head so their face is shown in the picture. On the other hand the boys try to mugg (look mean) and hold up gang sides they rep. She also talks about sexual intent and the different examples of it. One example she states is simply to be friendly to a young man. She talks about gang rape and how the guys get respected for that. My personal opinion on that is that I think that is disgusting and horrible. Young men need to more respective to the young ladies and the young ladies need to carry themselves a certain way. But the question is what if they do not know how to carry themselves. This thought brings me to one of the sentences she states in this chapter. The sentence states: “We’ve perpetuated the structural conditions that lead to the cultural adaptations and situational contexts that shape urban African American young women’s risks”. I broke this sentence down into my own words and I got this; We (society) are preserving the bad things in the African American community that shape the young African American girls that put them in these predicaments and situations. It is society that blindsides them and therefore we are the ones to blame for the ways that these girls act.
-Buttercup/Breanna Cousin
Getting played? What does that mean? When I hear the phrase “getting played” I think of the meaning of being blindsided. To be blindsided is to attack someone when they are most vulnerable. It is commonly used as a football term, but it is a word that can easily be transferred to our daily lives. I think it means that the girls in the African American community are not being shown the right way. Even though they do not know the right way they are still being criticized by their actions. That is not right and therefore they are getting played.
The author made some very clear points about young African American girls and how they act. She talked created a vivid as well as a very familiar picture of how these young ladies present themselves. Just like in her story she talks some about how they take their pictures. They face backwards toward the camera to show their backsides and turn their head so their face is shown in the picture. On the other hand the boys try to mugg (look mean) and hold up gang sides they rep. She also talks about sexual intent and the different examples of it. One example she states is simply to be friendly to a young man. She talks about gang rape and how the guys get respected for that. My personal opinion on that is that I think that is disgusting and horrible. Young men need to more respective to the young ladies and the young ladies need to carry themselves a certain way. But the question is what if they do not know how to carry themselves. This thought brings me to one of the sentences she states in this chapter. The sentence states: “We’ve perpetuated the structural conditions that lead to the cultural adaptations and situational contexts that shape urban African American young women’s risks”. I broke this sentence down into my own words and I got this; We (society) are preserving the bad things in the African American community that shape the young African American girls that put them in these predicaments and situations. It is society that blindsides them and therefore we are the ones to blame for the ways that these girls act.
-Buttercup/Breanna Cousin
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