Chittlin' Talk: Stop Snitchin' -- The Criminal is Your Friend

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Stop Snitchin' -- The Criminal is Your Friend

"The Stop Snitching campaign gained national attention in late 2004 in Baltimore, Maryland, where a DVD released by Rodney Thomas'[1] Skinny Suge Records, titled "Stop Snitching!" began to circulate. Thomas is currently in jail for assault.[2]In some footage, a number of men claiming to be drug dealers address the camera, and threaten violence against anyone who reports what they know about their crimes to the authorities. This threat is especially directed towards those who inform on others to get a lighter sentence for their own crimes. Notably, NBA star Carmelo Anthony, a former Baltimore resident and now a part of the Denver Nuggets basketball team, appeared in the video. [3] In subsequent interviews, Anthony claimed that his appearance in the video was a joke,[4] the product of his neighborhood friends' making a home movie. Anthony claims the film's message shouldn't be taken seriously. [5]"

Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Snitchin'

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Booker T. Washington said:

"There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs....There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."