Philadelphia's mayor, children and other issues of the day

Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love, has done it again. Three teenagers killed on the street. But the Mayor is saying something and it's something the NAACP, etc don't like. It's called the truth.

Nutter Fumes After 3 Philadelphia Teens Killed In Apparent Reprisal Shooting « CBS Philly

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Following a shooting Tuesday night in the Juniata section of the city that left three teens dead, Mayor Michael Nutter had strong words for the shooter, calling him “a dog.”

The outraged mayor also had strong words for the parents of Philadelphia’s youth, telling them “not to act like idiots and a–holes.”

While Nutter says he is gratified about the quick arrest in the multiple shooting, he is fuming that the victims were out on Tuesday night apparently looking for trouble. And he blames their parents.

“Seven young people, somewhere between 14 and 16 years old, on a Tuesday night, a school night, are out in a car going to somewhere to have a fight with some other teenager. That is completely insane, it is irresponsible. Parents have to know where their children are and what they are doing,” the mayor said.

“Their little butts should have either been in bed, getting ready for bed, or doing some homework,” Nutter added. “Not out in a car, not in some other neighborhood, and not up to this kind of nonsense. I’m not your mom and I’m not your dad. We cannot completely legislate, or by policy, make people responsible for their children....”

...“The least you can do is know where the hell your kids are, in the daytime, in the nighttime, or at any time during the week or on the weekends. That’s the minimum we should ask and expect from our parents. You want to have kids? Take care of them.”

Right on Mayor Nutter, right on. You may remember Mayor Nutter from a few months ago talking about flash mobs.

PHILADELPHIA — Mayor Michael A. Nutter, telling marauding black youths “you have damaged your own race,” imposed a tougher curfew Monday in response to the latest “flash mob” — spontaneous groups of teens who attack people at random on the streets of the city’s tourist and fashionable shopping districts.

“Take those God-darn hoodies down, especially in the summer,” Mr. Nutter, the city’s third black mayor, said in an angry lecture aimed at black teens. “Pull your pants up and buy a belt ‘cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt.”

“If you walk into somebody’s office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won’t hire you? They don’t hire you ‘cause you look like you’re crazy,” the mayor said. “You have damaged your own race.”

Mr Mayor I agree with everything you say. Parents are not raising their children because they have not been raised by adults themselves. How many teenagers in the hood have children and are themselves children of teenagers. You have 30 somethings (in some cases late 20s) being grandparents.

You can thank many in this debacle of society. The left that has said since the early 60's "Don't worry, we have a committee to raise your children. Guys, impregnate as many females as you want, you're not responsible. We got it covered. You don't have to grow up, just act like an animal in the wild." I've often said Lyndon Johnson is the worst president America has ever had and when asked why my first answer is usually "I'll give you fifty eight thousand reasons, their names are on a wall in Washington DC." But then I'll go into how LBJ (and the leftist in the Congress that have seized control of the Democratic Party in the 60s and held it since) put in the welfare state with his Great Society. If ever their was an oxymoron that is it, worse than Military Intelligence or Rap Music. It has torn minority families, specifically the black family apart.

When you tell people you have no responsibility for you own life or your children and pay you not to work that lead to sloth and destroys their self esteem, that crap educrats say not withstanding. Now you get generations living in hovels and you tell them "This is as good as it gets because someone is holding you down" (Hello NAACP, The Race, excuse me, La Raza, Urban League, etc) more and more accept this is it. And they have.

Want a classic example, fifteen children by three men, the father of ten is in jail:



And the tag line, "Somebody needs to be held accountable, and they need to pay,” she said."

Another example of the decay of a society in from Fox television. You know, the right wing conservative Fox television. A new show called I Hate My Teenage Daughter about two former geeks with teenage girls just like the kids that used to pick on them. I have never seen an episode but one catch line from a commercial stuck with me. The mother ask her daughter who is completely ignoring her parent, "Can't we just go back to being best friends?" The girl answers her without stopping her testing on the cell phone, looking at her mother or stopping her walk from her "We were never friends mom." The mother looked crushed.

Excuse me woman, first of all you are not her friend. You are her mother. Your job is to raise her to be an adult and sometimes you gotta piss her off. Like when telling her life ain't fair, stop complaining if you don't get everything handed to you. If you want it, go work for it. Not to mention mom you need to slap your little girl for walking away from you as you are talking to her and take that cell phone away. That is disrespect to the parent. Then again CPS may call that child abuse these days.

A few weeks ago I was at the DA's office and I got into a discussion with one of the clerks, a 50 something black female. The lady discussed how she was concerned her granddaughter (6 years old as I recall) was not being disciplined by her son. I recounted how more than once I would get called to fights in the hood where a 30 something mother was in a fight with her 16 year old daughter and mom was saying how her girl was going out of hand, etc. And (again) the thought going through my head was simple. "Woman, the problem is not you trying to discipline your daughter at 16. The problem is you didn't kick her ass at 6! You think she will respect you now after a lifetime of disrespect"

The point of this rant? We have to get back to parents raising their children, instilling in children a sense of responsibility for their lives. Girls have some self respect for yourselves and get an education and marry a good man before you have a family. Boys you are more than a "Baby daddy". If that's all you are you're a sack of s@#$ and waste of sperm and you will grow to nothing. Grow up, meet the right woman, marry her and have a family. Support yourselves and instill in them those same values. I would say it's amazing how this works but it's not. Wherever liberalism hasn't infected it's the norm.

I look at what has happened to the poor in this country and I shutter. But hopefully though the efforts of many good people (churches, etc) and the efforts of real leaders and against the efforts of race baiting poverty pimps we can start to reverse this. If not, then God help the republic.