Flash Mob: PARENTS DO YOUR JOB

Posted by ~ Sheldon Redditt 09/30/2014

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.  Proverbs 22:6

What is going on with our children?  The recent flash mobs that have been popping up in Memphis, surrounding areas and even nationwide are a travesty.  For those of you that are not familiar with the term, "flash mob", in this instance, it would be a gang of teenagers that appear at once and attack innocent, unsuspecting people.  In the last two weeks there have been three instances in the Memphis area.  

Let me start with the first incident, which took place in a Kroger parking lot in Memphis, TN, where a gang of kids beat two white guys.  They beat one of them to the point of being unconscious.  The entire incident was recorded.  One of the Kroger employees, whom happened to be black, attempted to help the other two young men.  He, in turn, was attacked as well.  This should have been labelled a Hate Crime. Shame on Mayor Wharton and Police Director Armstrong for not labeling it a Hate Crime.  Their stupid reason was because there was a black guy attacked too, but he was only attacked because he was trying to help out the two Caucasian men.  If the roles were reversed and a mob of white guys jumped on two black guys and another white employee was assaulted attempting to defend the black guys, no doubt, it would've been labelled a Hate Crime, as it should.  The definition of a Hate Crime is a crime motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice, typically one involving violence.  In the Kroger instance, the black employee was in no way the target.  He just simply got in their way, but it doesn't negate the fact that they had a mission.

Parents, where were you?  Why were your kids out at this time of night terrorizing the public?  How could you not have knowledge of your child's' whereabouts?  You are just as responsible as the child.  Your job is to nurture, guide and protect your child.  Should there not be some kind of consequences for you as well?   My generation was parented.  We knew that our parents were not there to be our friends.  They were there to raise us.  

Last Friday night, another flash mob attacked two cars in the middle of the street as the Central High School football game was letting out.  There was also a 16 year old boy that was attacked as he was leaving the game and a 55 year old man that was attacked by five or six people.  One of the drivers said that there were twenty kids on top of her car, kicking, stomping and hitting the car and the windows.  She was driving with her daughter in the car and they feared for their lives. At this point, police have issued three juvenile summons.  WHAT?! The lady that I mentioned said, "had I been armed, we would've had a lot of kids laying in Bellevue Street that night."  She said EXACTLY what a lot of people are thinking.  Let me be the first to say, I don't condone killing kids.  However, when you have these MONSTERS that are attacking people for no reason or for kicks, well people have a right to defend themselves and their families.  If this keeps happening, these monsters are going to end up in a cemetery because they are gonna get shot.  Fortunately for them, they haven't run into the right person yet, that will exercise his rights.  

I know I'm gonna hear, well you shouldn't call these kids monsters because they come from such and such neighborhood.  And all that kind of crap.  But that's just that, a bunch of crap.  There are plenty of people that grew up poor but they don't go around brutally attacking innocent people.  Again, if parents would PARENT, we wouldn't have these issues.  So, I'm calling them monsters because that's what monsters do, prey on the innocent.  I've seen the videos where they're jumping around with their pants around their ankles, holding assault rifles, rapping about some "fam mob" crap or whatever it is they're saying.  To all of our leaders, where are you now?  As soon as one of these kids get killed, you'll be running to Memphis, holding marches, rallies and vigils, talking about how good this kid was all his life. When you know damn well he was a menace to society.  Let's be proactive, instead of reactive.  It starts at home.  Parents do your job.  No one should be afraid to leave their house in fear of your kid attacking them because it seems like a good way to get their kicks tonight.  As Americans, we all have the right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.  The first one is Life.  And I'll be damned if I'm gonna let some little thug try to hurt me or my family.  I will defend myself and I expect others to do the same.  If you parents don't step up and raise your children, as that old Biblical verse says, you're gonna be buying a casket.  This senseless violence has to stop!  This is my truth.  What is yours?