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I watched the nearly preposterous piece that Anderson Cooper did for Sixty Minutes last night on the subject of snitching.

Cooper was interviewing some honkiefied Uncle Tom oreo named Geoffrey Canada who presented himself as an educator. Yeah, he is an educator all right. He wants to educate you to be sheep.

The premise of the segment was fairly stated in the first paragraph of the script:

(CBS) In most communities, a person who sees a murder and helps the police put the killer behind bars is called a witness. But in many inner-city neighborhoods in this country that person is called a "snitch."

I guess Anderson Cooper is a little more of a nellie boy than I thought he was. If you are a scrubbed white kid from the suburbs, it's probably pretty hard to understand why a snitch is the lowest form of human life, just below cops, lawyers and politicians.

And Cooper's exchange with rapper Cam'ron totally missed the point. Street cred only matters to double stuffed oreos like rap stars. Street cred is just a hip-hop word for public relations. The issue really concerns community solidarity. When there is an occupying army in your town, the last thing you want to have among you is a collaborator. To a kid in South Dallas, the police are an occupying force. They are foreigners sent to harass and intimidate. The only local police force in these communities wears gang colors.

So, the ethic behind disapproval of snitching is simply an aspect of community survival.

I've always thought that it was a whoosy thing to do, to say, "I'm gonna go tell your mommy on you."
There is something inherently cowardly about the act or even the threat. Snitches are simpering little cowards that can't stand up for themselves and they don't have enough sense to know that when you betray your family or your neighbors or your community, you are murdering yourself. Even the Bush administration knows this. Their lips are sealed with superglue. It takes a two year special prosecutor's investigation just to get a chirp from Scooter Libby, and not a peep from Dick Cheney, his boss. All their undershirts probably have the 'Stop Snitchin' slogan printed on the chest.

Snitches are the lice of any community.
And they should remember that these days
it costs fifty cents just to drop a dime on somebody.

See Lightning Rod catch hell for this article on the Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/23/10055/7320

Depends what yr snitchin' on, L-rod. Calling the cops on your neighbors who are smoking dope: yeah that's a snitch; ratting out say one of the Five Points gang who just murdered some "innocent bystander"--or blowing the whistle on some corrupt politician, even a "liberal" one-- might be your duty. Gut gluck with the comrades on DailyKossacheks

She could have used a snitch



I was born to follow Clay
where did I go wrong
I am a sheep led astray
I miss that cozzy warm feeling of the flock

These are the two I like the best

So snitching is bad (7+ / 0-)
Recommended by:mini mum, srkp23, michael1104, rioduran, tvb, kestrel9000, Randian
Because it makes you a "nellie boy" and a louse.

And the Bushies are heroes because they don't snitch.

This is your point?

Question -- are you black, and do you live in a community full of gang violence?
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln

by chumley on Mon Apr 23, 2007 at 07:09:26 AM PDT

Now that you famous you going to sell out"
Good luck Clay,

Wow! I so agree. I'm opposed to snitchin' too.

I am gonna post every single piece that you have ever recorded right here, so that anyone who wants to can download them for free. That way, we anti-snitchin' types can roll around in free stuff. Now, of course, since some of it is yours and you use it to make money, you may have a different opinion than I do. But, why should you, as a pro-criminal artist, care about the criminal use of your own stuff?

Makes you think, eh?

hmmm. OK. Well... I'm not replying to the snitching topic... just replying to Poed Lib.

Welcome to the Studio.

Sorta curious about your post. I don't understand it. He already posts everything he ever recorded right here at the Studio and gives the downloads away for free.

If people listen to it, how's that criminal?

And what exactly IS a "pro-criminal artist" and how is Lrod one of those?

I don't get it. lol

No, I don't approve of snitches when they're snitching on me.

"snitch" is a shitty word. nobody would like to be called that.
how about "leaker"? "leakers" are good for the government, i.e., the people. "leakers" have brought attention to corruption in corporate america. "leakers" have uncovered some of our soldiers negative behavior during wartime.

now, "snatch"... that's a word I could 'poll'.

The truth will set you free...even whilst you're moldering behind the iron cold bars of a prison cell paying the piper you so foolishly flaunted.

Do the crime, prepare to do the time.

Why do those who affront the law opine away when they get caught or are snitched upon? Why does it come as such a shock when right seizes might by rat a tat tattling?

Snitching? Snitching is just the effervescence of truth burbling beneath the surface, the iridescent clothing beneath the camouflage of lies, the naked exposed in all its glory (or lack thereof).

Why bemoan the snitcher when tis the snitchee who failed to obscure sufficiently his misguided tracks.

The logic baffles me, for one cannot snitch unless there is something snitchable to snitch about. A caveat emptor of the snitchable kind.

Next installment...Honor among thieves...truly a thing of beauty.



I think it's harder to be a snitch and be willing to stand alone than it is to just stand shoulder to shoulder with the rest of the pack in solidarity with the wrong. A snitch takes an unpopular stand and is more often than not looked down upon by both sides for it. Is there not something sadly amiss with that...or is it just me?


I vote for choice no. 5. I understand the need to always be willing to face your own music...sour notes and all.


Who can say they know the heart of a snitch when it is all too easy to be fooled by our own?

Ha ha, my favourite

Well I don't agree with the sentiment expressed (1+ / 0-)

in this diary, but I think it's important that you did bring up the subject of "no snitching."

To a kid in South Dallas, the police are an occupying force. They are foreigners sent to harass and intimidate. The only local police force in these communities wears gang colors.

Are you describing a personal experience where you felt the police harassed you? Also, what do you mean that the local police (I'm assuming in Dallas) are wearing gang colors? Do you have knowledge that they belong to gangs? Have members of your community tried to go to the FBI?

by ademption on Mon Apr 23, 2007 at 07:26:26 AM PDT

I really didn't think the concept was that hard.
Sadly, I'd rather read all those inane comments than study for my french final (hey, let's not talk about it). Amazing how many people see things in terms of black and white (and I'm not talking race). I'm not going to say anything about snitching, but do these people honestly trust the cops?

???? who is "ademption"? where is this quoted from, boho?

Well I don't agree with the sentiment expressed (1+ / 0-)

in this diary, but I think it's important that you did bring up the subject of "no snitching."

To a kid in South Dallas, the police are an occupying force. They are foreigners sent to harass and intimidate. The only local police force in these communities wears gang colors.

Are you describing a personal experience where you felt the police harassed you? Also, what do you mean that the local police (I'm assuming in Dallas) are wearing gang colors? Do you have knowledge that they belong to gangs? Have members of your community tried to go to the FBI?

by ademption on Mon Apr 23, 2007 at 07:26:26 AM PDT

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/23/10055/7320

About 20 comments down?

stillltrucking said

These are the two I like the best

So snitching is bad (7+ / 0-)
Recommended by:mini mum, srkp23, michael1104, rioduran, tvb, kestrel9000, Randian
Because it makes you a "nellie boy" and a louse.

And the Bushies are heroes because they don't snitch.

This is your point?

Question -- are you black, and do you live in a community full of gang violence?
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln

by chumley on Mon Apr 23, 2007 at 07:09:26 AM PDT

And who are you quoting, stilltrucking?

I'm lost on my own site.

What is this? Who's the quote from?

bohonato wrote:http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/23/10055/7320

About 20 comments down?

Oh... lol.. OK!!!!! .. i see... we have to go OFF site to find quotes people are quoting here!

OK!!... next time, could you please post a link?

To all who post here..

if you are going to quote anyone, you really need to quote the actual URL of the quote...otherwise, how do we know where it came from? ... in other words, please quote the daily whateverthefuck or the whateverthefuck.com site when you post your quote, ok?

Otherwise, viewers like me are lost. Thank you!

(well I was born lost so that's a a given )

but seriously.. if you quote from here, please say who you are quoting and if you quote from another site, please link to the other site wherever you got the link so people who are just as stupid as me won't feel like complete idiots

LOL!

i amuse myself..

THANK you, bohonato, for directing me! I really felt terribly stupid not following the conversation until I realized that people had been directed off this site

gnight all..

I just re-read what i wrote and feel like I didn't say it right.

I'm saying it's GREAT to post quotes or whatever you want, but it's really IMPORTANT to link to where you got the quote, OK?

otherwise, it doesn't make any sense.

Thanks!