My question is: Where were the parents of the boys?

I know that my parents raised me to respect and cherish females and especially Black females.

My ‘butt’ (putting it nicely) would regret any insult I would think of throwing towards any woman.

In today’s society, the general disrespect towards women and especially Black women is at a all time high. With the media’s portraying (sp) women as ‘b#$%h’s and ho’s’ at every turn, and Black women in general as an “easy” lay, without parental influence, children will take what they see/hear on the “moron” devices (TV/RADIO) as gospel.

Black parents and parents in general need to be there to talk to their kids and dispel the myths that they are seeing.

This is not BY ANY MEANS an excuse for their behavior. I just think that it is a wake up call to other parents out there, that they need to get involved in their kids life and restore some sensible values to our generation or else we will be lost.

My dear Cynthia,

Nobody is saying here that black people are not outraged about this incident.This is why I kept putting MEDIA in caps so that the focus remained on black MEDIA. It would be silly to suggest that blacks are heartless when it comes to issues like this. What ain’t silly is how BLACK MEDIA has treated this case. So once again, I am talking about BLACK MEDIA, BLACK MEDIA, BLACK MEDIA, BLACK MEDIA. (I’m just being silly here, but it is just I had to explain this several times already to some readers)

your comment was no insulting at all. (that whole think/read before you speak just came into play…)

All parties were black. To understand the post, please take your time to read it again.

If I sound insulting here, please forgive me. Most readers found the point pretty clear.

Bottom line, color does not matter. Unfortunately to some, it does.

A young girl was brutally raped by 3 boys! Lets talk about this issue as a whole, and work on a solution ,

I’m in Maryland. It has been on Black media originating from Baltimore.

What gets picked up and doesn’t get picked up is always a mystery to me.

There have been “white on Black” cases in Maryland that have been bad but have not made the national press. I really don’t expect it to, but I find the claim, “If it where white on Black” to be suspect because of what I have seen and NOT seen over time.

Your point is very valid, however, this goes back to a point that I raised sometime ago: Why has most of major black media given this story little or no play? If you go to blackpressusa.com (a website that ties in most black owned and operated newspapers), the main headline reads the following:

Anti-war and community activist Damu Smith

I have no comment on Smith as I am not that familiar with him, but question remains, why does an anti-war activist get headlined while a girl being gang-raped (a story that typically gets national attention) is on the back pages somewhere. If we are admiting here that black news gets its relevancy from MSM, then why do we have it if stories like this get overlooked? Anybody can filter a newsfeed to only target keywords like burning cross, racism, oppression, white cop, black kid, etc..Is this all we are interested in?

Personally, the race of the individuals is no where near important than the crime itself. If I had a child in a mostly white school and the same thing happened, trust me I would feel the same way. What angers me is that US… OUR MEDIA, most black polititians who have the national spotlight would have raised pure hell about this is if it was white teens that raped this black girl. Calls for a federal probe would have already been issued.

I have a friend that lives in the area as well.

I said NATIONAL outrage (like you quoted me). I am not that crazy to make the blanket statement that there is NO outrage amongst blacks. Compare the Twanda Brawley case from back in the day with this one.

Again, looking at this from a NATIONAL perspective, I do not recall too many black-owned media giving this attention either. Sure MSM does share some of the blame on this one for not giving this story more play, but so does our own media.

OK, now I’ve asked someone I know who lives in the area about this story, and I’m told there is outrage from Black people that this happened.

You have to look at how the media is reporting things or not reporting things.

For example, in a local case, a woman encouraged her daughter and other girls to beat up another girl. The girl who was beat up suffered brain damage. The white talk show stations said the same thing you did, that there is no outrage in the Black community.

Meanwhile, on the Black talk stations, outrage was being shown. Neighbors got involved as well as the church the brain damaged girl attended.

The church raised a lot of money for her health care.

For example, have these administrators been reprimanded earlier for other issues? Have other parents complained about the school’s lack of discipline? The teachers’ union may have been involved in these issues with these administrators. And may be called as a witness by the father.

The same problem exists for the Supertindent of the school system, other teachers in the school, School Board members.

I’m sure the child’s father now has at the ready a list of attorneys for a lawsuit against the school system and perpetrators.