Black teen jailed for shoving hall monitor speaks out

[Horse with no Name]

Here is an update for those following the story--if you don't know the story--you can refer to my journal.

http://theparisnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=2efe4226b2bde2f1


"It was traumatic,” Cotton said of her 12-month stay in the Brownwood facility, where she said she witnessed kids fighting and listened to threats. “I didn’t go through stuff like that because I stayed in my room.”

Relationships there were pitiful, Shaquanda said.

“I missed my family,” she said. “My father died two weeks before I was released, and I was unable go to his funeral.”

The teenager appealed to other youth and said being locked up is not a way to spend life.

[John Q. Citizen]

1. What a strong young lady. She plans to join the revolution and fight for peace

and justice. Funny how oppression has a way of back firing on the oppressors.




“We need to stop fighting against each other and take a look at the things that are going on around us and stand up for ourselves,” Shaquanda said. “Don’t let anybody tell you that you can’t be anything, because I have been told that many times.”

Shaquanda said she is now going to pursue her dream.

“I am going to college and become a lawyer and help other kids,” she said.

[DeepBlueC]

2. shoving other people around isn't a way to live either

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. If you want to complain about bullies...

complain about the bastards think that this was in any way justified.

Now those are bullies.

[malaise]

4. What kind of country denies a child the right to attend

her father's funeral? I guess the one that sent a soldier back to Iraq while his mother was dying.:cry: :cry:

[Horse with no Name]

5. And the one that sent a 14-year old black girl to jail for up to 7 years

for shoving a hall monitor that for all intents and purposes, shoved her first.

[malaise]

6. That too

Damn these people are sick.

[MountainLaurel]

8. Pretty much

:mad:

[Horse with no Name]

7. kick for the night folks.