When enough is ENOUGH!!

[misskriss01]

I'm usually a silent monitor but I had to comment on something that disturbed me lastnight.

I don't know if the rest of you saw it but I was watching Dateline on NBC lastnight and it was talking about the melee that went on a few weeks ago in New York city. I was EXTREMELY appalled, saddened and disgusted by the display I saw on television; it brought me to tears. Young women, getting their clothes ripped off to be made a fool of for the whole world to see. What is up with our men???

I was watching the show with a friend of mine (who is male) and he was actually LAUGHING through the whole thing. I taped it and he was actually stopping the tape and rewinding to the parts where the women were naked! He thought it was funny and felt that all the young girls were dressed in a way in which they ASKED FOR IT. That's right, they DESERVED to be fondled, fingered and trampled just because they wore shorts and a tube top. That kind of mindset upsets me to the FULLEST. I've been to Black Beach in Daytona and Freaknic when it was in existence and it seems that a lot of men feel the same way as my friend does. When I went to those events, I was touched and I didn't even have tight clothes on! I tried to explain to him that just because I decide to walk down the street and wear some clothes that show off my figure DOES NOT give a man the right to touch me - I don't care. I don't dress in very tight clothes but if I choose to, that is my business.

My question is, WHEN IS ENOUGH, ENOUGH!!!

The men in the video were utterly DISGUSTING!! The mob even attacked a woman who was on her honeymoon walking WITH HER HUSBAND...after her husband rescued her from the mob, the men (or should I say BOYS) continued to grab and fondle her.

And what is even more saddening is that New York police DID NOTHING about it until that white woman was attacked. Police are trying to use seized videotape to prosecute the men but lawyers say even if they catch them, they STILL might not be able to prosecute because it doesn't show who did what to whom.

What are we as women supposed to do??? It seems as though the world is getting crazier and crazier everyday. It makes me not want to attend ANYTHING that would be on the same magnitude as that festival. It appears that the actions of these fools are being JUSTIFIED! Even a brotha who was being interviewed about the incident said that some women were going along with it and if he were a woman, and he saw a mob of men he would of walked around it. Easy for him to say....

I just want to know what everyone thinks about this....men saying the women ASKED to be ATTACKED??? NY Police who did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING and the attacks were occuring right in front of their faces??? I am truly saddened by the whole situation and the fact that it was our men who were involved in it makes it even more sickening. And to know that there are men out there, probably like my friend, who saw nothing out of the ordinary with the display makes me wonder where are we headed to as a society where women are to be made a mockery of and treated as animals.

Sincerely,

A very sad, mad sisterfriend

[AKAtude]

You may wish to stroll down and read through "Central Park Assaults". A few people have stated their opinions on the subject. But I agree with what you have written.

[misskriss01]

I apologize, I didn't scroll through. I was just so mad this morning, the first thing I thought about doing was posting!

[Diva_56]

I saw the report too... it is just too sad the state of affairs today when people feel they have the right to touch you in a way that is innapropriate. Some bad apples spoil it for the good men out there.

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In complete darkness we are all the same... It is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us... Don't let your eyes deceive you

Janet Jackson

[AKAtude]

Don't worry about it. I understand how you were feeling.

[prettygyrl]

Thats pretty disturbing. As a woman I can not even grasp the thought of a man walking up to me doing those things, then on top of that they were claiming that some women ASKED for it? Its sad that some of our brothers would take part in something like this or sit back and laugh at it! I wonder how they would feel if it were their daughter, mother, girlfriend or sister? I try to have patience for our men cause it seems from birth the world is against them. Then they go and do things like this and i get really upset, they obviously have some issues they need to deal with! As far as the NYPD well I have heard enough stories about them to know that they do not give a dam about us! Unfortunately in other places they really dont either. In order to deal with a problem of this nature(to tryand keep things like this from happening) we need to reach out to our young men when they are just boys, so that they can be educated and taught respect and love for themselves and others. Calling on the police really in most instances does not work for us, they like to see us destroying one another and as long as we keep it within our people and do not bother theirs they will keep their distance! They do not mind locking up our men or killing them thats no problem for them at all! They do it for their satisfaction not as an effort to help us. We have to try and fix these problems within ourselves! The other man can't and will not help us! My prayers go out to the young ladies that had to endure these things. Also to the young men who did these things thinking that it was okay to do! We really need to get it together. Much love to all my peeps!