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The main misperception about the controversially popular “Stop Snitching” ideology that is now considered a staple of the Black community is that it’s ubiquitous. Black people are, in no way and under no circumstances, ever supposed to volunteer, aid, assist or even acknowledge law enforcement efforts in our communities.

Of course, the origin of the “Stop Snitching” ethos made a lot more sense. The term was originally coined to govern the conduct of coexisting criminals, sort of a Black take on the Mafia’s omertá-or code of silence.

In other words, if you and I were together in a criminal enterprise and I got busted, I was not supposed to snitch on you. I was supposed to do my time like a man or a “standup guy” and trust that you’d be on the outside handling my affairs in return for my silence.

Michael Vick could have used such friends. So could TI.

Eventually however, both the expression “Stop Snitching” and the mentality behind it extended to the point where it more or less suggested that if something, even something criminal, didn’t have a directly adverse affect on you then you should mind your business and stay out of it.

Now “Stop Snitching” has ballooned to the point where we’ve had to cringingly watch our dear friend, rapper Cam’ron, explain to Anderson Cooper on 60 minutes that even if he lived next door to a serial killer, he’d move away before he’d tell the police.

Needless to say, “Stop Snitching” has gone way too far.

We no longer live in Africa, folks, where our elders police our communities. If a gang of us were to get together now to beat up or kill some pedophile or serial killer, we’d all go to jail!

Now I’m not suggesting that you should be on the phone with the law if you spot a guy on the corner selling nickel-bags of weed and wearing flip-flops, but if you’re aware that a person has become an actual, physical danger to our community, then that person’s gotta go.

That wouldn’t even be considered “snitching”. That would be responsible citizenship.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    Should black people start snitching?… Snitchin is at a all time high where im at, so I think they should stop, it aint even enough crime, so the police set people up just so they can keep a job. Stop Snitchin!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/gren1shaw2/ gren1shaw2

    Black people have been so-called snitching on each other since the slaves were brought to this country.the slaves gained favor with their slave masters by telling the plans of other slaves.I don’t really understand the question!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/marcuslove79/ marcuslove79

    same folk saying stop snitching, wont stop to help a nigga out, wont stop hunger, wont stop killing each other, wont stop not being a father, wont stop hurting their own community, its kinda funny how we rally over some bulls**t.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Neverbeentojail/ Neverbeentojail

    I have a bright idea. Do not commit crimes or break the law so no one has to snitch on you. I live in dayton, oh. Very small city yet were ranked #7 in the U.S. for crime. I’m sick of the ignorance. Wanna put the police out of business, stop doing stupid s**t. 7 murders in 10 days is so not cool. Idiots shot up a house using ak 47′s that had 10 kids inside..But don’t snitch right? Community activist gets murdered over a botched robbery. Don’t snitch right? 12 yr old kid gets hit by car while idiots attempt a drive-by. Don’t snitch right? Idiot mad about not being allowed in a club, gets mad and shoots at the entrance, kills one, injures 6 others. But don’t snitch. I’m sorry but I don’t live by hood rules. I believe in right n wrong. I’m not gon call the police on someone who on they grind on the corner. Thats not my business, do what you got to do but when other people are affected by others ignorance, then come on. White people laughing a s we speak. WAKE UP black people

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/cokolove_04/ cokolove_04

    i completely agree!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Howsep129/ Howsep129

    snitchin snitchin wow this one hell of story when the mobb was in play there wasnt no snitchin people was to scared to snitch like gren1shaw said people been snitchin since slaves that why really do believe that time repeat itself lot guys in love dont want leave so called women and kids cant hit kids in the store kno more everybody watchin talkin bout VICK TI CAMRON these guy up under the old law it real guy do real thang that my opinion snitchin is not a object for me that why Im gettin the short in of the stick my point is stay away from guy that in love with hoes move around dont matter how much doe they got either keep a distance if you keep doing the same thang and gettin caught stop

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blacktino007/ blacktino007

    That’s the whole thing, if you are a criminal, or are participating in criminal activities from time to time – you have no grounds to run to the police. I can respect that , in an odd sort of way. To me , that is a snitch. Now, that I have defined it, I will say this: let me catch ANY s**t going on in my community, or if I see a crime I am reporting that sh*t. Simple as that . Do I fear criminals? Not in the least bit. Will I react with overwhelming force at attempts by criminals to intimidate me? You better believe it.
    Thats what has been and was missing in OUR communities, people who won’t tolerate or back down from criminals. Once we start standing up for our communities things will change. LOL Keep your own nose clean, and you don’t have to worry about being a snitch.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzpast/ jazzpast

    Is this a question of complacency or a rhetorical question???

    What do you mean we no longer live in afrika???

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/panamaniak/ panamaniak

    That is so DUMB. And when you compare this to the so-called mafia omerta, which is for MEMBERS of the Mafia,NOT civilians. I would say if you are going OUT of your way to stick your nose in some criminals business, then that’s YOU. But if you see a crime and your heart tells you to testify or whatever,then you must do what you must do. As far as Cam’ron or whatever, that man is an ass. My age, 30 something and still sounds like a teenager out here on the corner. Not ALL law enforcement are corrupt. Just like not ALL young Black men are drug dealing,gangbangin’,multiple baby mamma havin’ thugs. Are we?

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/UnderStandinMan/ UnderStandinMan

    It is only SNITCHING if you is not ask what happen.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BabyBoy1603/ BabyBoy1603

    FIRST OFF. WHO IN DA F**K WROTE THIS BULLS**T. SECOND OF ALL. I DISLIKE THIS WORD. BECAUSE IT IS USED TO INSTILL FEAR IN GRAND MOTHERS AND FATHERS AUNTS UNCLES LIL CHILDREN ETC. EVERYONE IS NOT A DRUG DEALER GANG BANGER OR CAREER CRIMINAL. IF U SEE SOMEONE MURDER SOMEONE U CARE ABOUT THE RIGHT THING IS TO TELL. WHAT U GOIN TO LET THIS FOOL RUN ROUND THE STREETES FREE AND U KNOW HE DID IT. BUT A SNITCH TO ME IS. IF ME AND MY PARTNER DECIDE TO DEAL DRUGS AND HE GETS CAUGHT THEN TELLS MY NAME. EVEN THOUGH WE AGREED THAT U DONT KNOW ME AND I KNOW U. IF ONE OF GETS CAUGHT. SNITCHING IS LIKE BREAKING A CODE OF HONOR AMONGST A GROUP OF INDIVIDUAL WHO SET CODES AND STANDARDS TO GRIND BY. IF I WAS ROBBING A STORE AND A PERSON WHO WAS SHOPPING TOLD ON ME. THATS NOT A SNITCH. JUST A WITNESS. HELL I SHOULD BEEN A LIL MORE CLEANER WIT MY WORK. (I HAVE A SAYING” PEOPLE CLAIM THAT THEY TRUE BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE FALSE, EVERYBODY WANT A SPOT TO BALL, AND A SHOT TO CALL, BUT WHEN IT FALLS BACK ON THEM THEY DONT WANT TO PAY THE COST”)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/warchild2000/ warchild2000

    f**k what bp says. “snitches get stiches”. dat da motto and code i live by. f**k “syop snitchin”. i live by the same code the mafia does, becuz of who i know and who my family is. reason being, the Code Of Silence is a way fo life for us. if you snitch on someone, you die. point blank. dats how it is, dats da way it is. if you snitch, you betray ur family, ur friends, ur community. u rat me out, i’ll kill you. or i’ll put a contract on ur head. and u’ll be dead in 24 hrs. try me.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ACEmusic954/ ACEmusic954

    this is how i see it. i’m a grown man now. if you ride with a person then you all share the same mind. that means you act as one. but i’m an individual with a life of his own. at the same time i got people to look after all over. if i get pinched for some bs and i know who did it, and they at home doing whatever and not interested in coming clean to take the rap for their bs, then guess what i’m going to do? yup you guessed it. i’m snitching. because how are you going to let a man do the tme for what you did???? that’s childish, ignorant, and stupid beyond measure. i’ll be damned before i sti in jail for some old silly ass m*therf*cker. b*tch i got s**t to do and laying up in a cot next to some other fool aint one of them lol. i’ll be in that courtroom like, “pick me judge, pick me!!!” lololol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/drednot7/ drednot7

    Simply Put…There’s a difference between snitching cause your dumb ass got caught and ya man didn’t, and REPORTING A CRIME. Camron was an idiot in that interview! We had a whole group of cats from a neighborhood in Philly beat the hell outta that child rapist – on camera. And not one of them was arrested…On the flip side, Cops can’t really say sh*t about it being that they typically don’t snitch on eachother no matter what…So best believe if I’m in the hood and i see someone shoot a civilian, I will tell who did it because the victim’s family deserves that. I don’t owe sh*t to some nickel & dime corner boy hustler. And let them send someone to my house and see what happens…Now what?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sylkiifeather/ sylkiifeather

    WOOOOOOOOOW @ warchild2000 lmao. i would snitch if it involved my family or friends, and if i can get a reward (lol). other than that, it isnt really worth the time, effort, or fear of being killed. but i applaud anybody brave enough to snitch….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/panamaniak/ panamaniak

    warchild2000, I hope you know the “mafia” the REAL mafia DOES NOT live by this so-called “code”. Just how do you think Mr.Gotti got GOT? Sammy the “Bull”. But I can see you are a “true believer” just like Lil Kim. Let me know how that “code” works out. Actually I know how it’ll work out. These tough guy thugs are tough alright,right up until they see the REAL for REAL. That that man is about to put some “god type” time on you,ie; some LONG years,unless you name some names. And if you’re a 20 year old kid looking at 40 plus, yeah okay guy. Who you bulls**ttin’, this “code” bulls**t. Certainly not me.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/alterego380/ alterego380

    Man bp tripping. I really want to know who wrote this. The very fact that this infomation is out to the public now targets us even more. Way to go bp. It is clear that the person writing this crap is a snicth themselves. If there is a person in my community that is becoming a danger then the communtiy itself handles the problem. My momma always told me, KEEP FAMILY STUFF AND PROBLEM IN THE FAMILY. Please tell me who wrote this crap…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/alterego380/ alterego380

    you snicth in my hood..it’s a wrap for that A##. Every black person knows the rules. You hurt innocent people…that’s yo A@@. You hurt childern…that’s yo A$%^. You hurt mothers and families…that’s yo A@#$. You snicth…that’s…. YO ….. A@!@#…. You know if you a doing wrong things in the community that there is a possiabilty that something bad is going to happen to you so you just have to roll with the punches but don’t snicth punk. The fact is that there are rules in the black community and those who forget their black and jump ship because they forgot who the F**K they are, tend to snicth. Mick Vick should be whopping some A@@ right know and T.I. Again I say. There are rules in the black community.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/PassionFest/ PassionFest

    YA DAMN RIGHT WE SHOULD
    Why Are Becoming Our Own Demise??? We Went From Such Massive Oppression From Others Only To Oppress Ourselves!!
    The say ignorance is bliss but does it apply when loves ones are lost? If you were to have your mother, father, brother, sister or, child gunned down like a dog by some random savage YOU, YES YOU would want justice. Come one People think about it!! THE THOUGHTLESS ALWAYS TEND TO CHANGE THE “RULES” when they are directly affected……. WHY!!!! Do I have to be wealthy, white, or all the above to live in a affluent, thriving community that is SAVE?? Let US get real with reality a lot of these “people” that bark-out “stop snitching” DO NOT HAVE MUCH TO LIVE FOR or else they wouldn’t be apart of THAT lifestyle nor would they want to be dragged down by it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/xmystakalx/ xmystakalx

    This stop snitchin bs is killin black people. I could understand not snitchin on yo friend. but if u know someone who committed a crime and u aint sayin nothin, people jus gettin away wit it and gon keep doin it. if we report the crimes people will be less likely to commit them.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Banity/ Banity

    When i was in elementary school it was called tattle tale when someone picked on you & you needed the teacher…so this isnt new…now those kids are grown with the same stupid thinking

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/k_stretch/ k_stretch

    I really don’t understand some of my people. As a black man, husband, father and provider for my family. Why! the hell would I let my neighbors sell drugs, steal, kill etc. and not tell. Who would voluntarily do this raise their family and then complain that the police don’t do anything. Police your own community. We can’t blame the results of this stupidity on white people. Some of us live in poor areas but it doesn’t mean you have to be stupid. When are we going to teach out kids to be smart and make good choices and be responsible for ourselves. Nobody else is going to do it for us. For those who are doing the right thing keep doing it!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/pretty_tender/ pretty_tender

    I’m confused as to why the “stop snitching” movement spread through communities like wild fire, but the “Stop Ignorance,” “Stop the Bias Drug Policy,” “Stop Rape,” “War Against Poverty,” and “Stop the human trafficking” movements are still at “square one.” And the “Stop the Racism/Civil Rights Movement” is in reverse now. The “Stop Racial Equality/Pro Segregation” movement is starting to pick up steam again and kicking ass in most of the South

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dont_play2/ Dont_play2

    Don’t commit the crime and you don’t have to worry about being snitched on; ppl wanna live in a safe neighborhood… only dumbs azz thugs and hoodlums live by this code and try to enforce it on law abiding citizens. If I see ur azz committing a crime i’m calling the police bytches!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaramelLuv4U25/ CaramelLuv4U25

    This is a very interesting topic, because I’ve had the same thoughts running through my mind. I think that if the crime calls for it, then yes we should let the authorities know about. But, if we’re talking about something that’s simple as standing around talking when your boss isn’t looking, then no, its really not worth getting the other person in trouble for.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/J_3l3CTRo/ J_3l3CTRo

    What it all comes down to is the individual. If you believe not snitching to be morally correct then your not going to snitch. On the other hand if you seen something go down such a a robbery, murder, rape! and your conscious is telling you to say something then you should speak up! When it comes down to snitching there is no right or wrong, good or bad. Only your morality and what you the INDIVIDUAL believes to be right or wrong! I make this argument in all fairness to both sides because the truth remains both can be justified. Weather it’s dirty cops trying to bust drug dealers trying to support a family, or watching your brother get killed. There are perfectly good reasons to snitch or not snitch. Each one having it’s repercussions if you tell on the wrong person you could be putting your life at risk and if don’t tell you could possibly face legal repercussions. Speaking on the Cam-Ron statement now if you live beside a killer and you know he is seriously messed up mentally I think the proper thing to do would be contact the authorities and get that guy some help! That’s just common sense IMO. To snitch or not to snitch? I’m no snitch to a just cause believe that! I got snitched on and I was asked to snitch back but I kept my mouth closed and did my time like a soulja is supposed to. When I got out I handled that nigga proper. I can’t call it though all I can say is what I believe to be right in my own heart and mind. Some niggas snitch and some don’t that’s how it goes down.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/XL_611/ XL_611

    Byers, you’re an idiot. Don’t you see that what you’re really asking is “Should blacks have a conscience and should they act upon it?”.

    Moron.

    LOL

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    Yeah IDK how this evolved from the you do the crime and the time to you see a murder or a robbery and you don’t tell the police. And Vick and Tip had some terrible friends that ratted them out. I got snitched on at work and that sh!t sucked for real. Dumb b!tch got me fired lol.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JAY_DONT_DO_DARK_HOZ/ JAY_DONT_DO_DARK_HOZ

    LOOK ITS LIKE THIS WHEN EVA U SELLIN DRUGS OR KILLIN SOMEBODY AND U GET COUGHT YO JOB AS A MAN IS TO TAKE YO CHARGE AND STFU….IF U MAN ENOUGH TO DO DIRT U MAN ENOUGH TO TAKE THE CHARGE…….IVE NEVA SEEN SOME MANY COWARDS IN MY LIFE…..ITS NOT OUR JOB TO DO WHAT THE POLICE SHOULD BE DOIN…..SNITCHIN IS FOR COWARDS……I HAVE A COUSIN WHO SOLD BIG “D ” IN SAINT LOUIS AND HE SNITCHED I DONT DONT EVEN SPEAK TO HIM,RESPECT HIM RO HAVE NOTHING TO SAY TO HIM AND HE IS MY FAMILY…..IF I CANT TRUST U…THERES NOTHING TO SAY TO U….NO HE LIVES HIS WHOLE LIFE IN FEAR….CUZZ HE SNITCHED….WHAT KIND OF LIFE IS THAT?OK YEA HE’S NOT IN JAIL….BUT HE MAY AS WELL B…..IF U LIVING YO LIFE IN FEAR CAUSE U DONT KNOW HOW TO SHUT YO FUUCKIN MOUTH……IF U NOT THE POLICE THEN ITS NOT YO JOB…..LET THE POLICE DO THEY JOB……..I RATHER DIE WITH MY RESPECT THEN DIE AS A COWARD=SNITCH

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jeffrey1975/ Jeffrey1975

    Mind you, I am a very law abiding respectful citizen.(smile) Most crimes that blacks commit are based mostly on monetary gain or it deals with it. However, such crimes as sexual assault, molestation, or basically some unbelievable act, it’s a little room. What I learned a long time ago is, if you can not do the time, do not do the time. So to answer the question, would I snitch? Heck no, especially on a fellow minority in this country. Screw the law enforcement agencies. I am not trying to help them do their jobs. Now if I am at work and I see Johnny Peac**k doing something he has no buisness doing, I’m gonna run and tell it! LOL

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Tried-N-True/ Tried-N-True

    Quoted from the article: “Of course, the origin of the “Stop Snitching” ethos made a lot more sense. The term was originally coined to govern the conduct of coexisting criminals, sort of a Black take on the Mafia’s omertá-or code of silence.”

    I am sure what I am about to state will be deemed unfavorable to many here, but state my opinion, I must. Arguably the term “stop snitching” has two viewpoints and in MY opinion, the term and its effects are superseded by its original usage meant to protect those who performed illicit deeds. What I am alluding to is the fact that it has been used and continues to be used by the very forces which denigrate it’s use in the Black community: Namely law enforcement. Police often act inappropriately, contrive charges, reasons to stop Blacks and other minorities in an inequitable fashion as opposed to the so-called dominant population. Laws are made and or changed once it’s deemed the minority factor has become involved, is involved and or are asserting their rights—This in and of itself is a double standard. Hence the double standard is applied to Blacks 9as is history) when it come to use of the term, Stop Snitching…. My point is thus: While it is fashionable for the police/law enforcement to live by the code of “DON’T SNITCH” on each other because of their so called “BROTHERHOOD” even when they act inappropriately within our communities (i.e. abuse of power, disrespect, contrived arrests, lying on the stand in court and or charges etc.) why must the community be held to a higher standard than those who are paid, and have taken an oath with many points of ethics within that oath. In essence, the term “DON’T SNITCH” is a direct learned response to the fact that police do not tell on each other in order to protect their brethren. AS A FINAL NOTE: one-thing citizens must realize: Is, the police are not there, nor paid to protect you. They are there to ENFORCE laws and yes, it is true, police DO NOT have to protect you…………..especially from them! So I say—to hell with them as they live by their code and many a good person has gone down because of their duplicity.

    OK—That’s my rant and everyone is welcome to bring me to task.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Hokage-Sama69/ Hokage-Sama69

    HMM I THINK THE COMMUNITIES NEED TO START “SNITCHING” AS A WHOLE. MEANING TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND THEIR CHILDREN. WHY ARE INNOCENT PEOPLE AND THEIR KIDS BEING VICTIMIZED BY CRIMINALS? BUT NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING TO HELP. HOW ARE THE POLICE GOING TO DO THEIR JOBS WHEN THEY AREN’T GETTING THE CORRECT INFORMATION? COMMUNITIES ARE BEING CONTROLLED BY THESE CRIMINALS AND THAT’S WHY THEY HAVE PROBLEMS. TURN THEM IN. STAND UP TO THEM..SMH. GANG VIOLENCE WONT STOP UNLESS CIVILIANS DO SOME THING ABOUT IT.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Mr_Patches/ Mr_Patches

    This is interesting. I have two homeboys who are both doing life sentences for murder. Cold part about is.. the one who pulled the trigger lied and said the other one pulled the trigger. They even told him in court that this nigga said he pulled it, even though he never touched the gun. He was just the getaway driver. What I don’t understand is, after you found out this fool was lying and said he pulled the trigger, why you didn’t tell the truth? I can see if he just kept his mouth closed, or said he didn’t do it, or don’t know who pulled the trigger. That wasn’t the case, he was tryna blame it on the man who didn’t pull it. Now if this was you, and you found out this nigga was lying on you to get you the time, wouldn’t you speak up? Why the f**k would you ever do time for somebody else bulls**t. If you about to get Life, hell yea most niggas gonna snitch because it don’t make sense to get put away if you didn’t do it. F**k that nigga, he did it!! Since he wanna lie and put it you, it sucks but you gonna have to snitch. Either his life or yours. Esp if he pulled it. Nigga how gonna lie and say he did it? Then you still lose because the word get back to the hood that you the one who snitched, even thought he snitched (lied) on you first. Call it what you want but it’s not too many people who would do time they don’t have to do for somebody else. Damn and just had a son at the time of the murder. So now you doing time for some s**t you really didn’t do, and you can’t see yo son grow up? F**k that, you gonna snicth.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ackeegrl/ ackeegrl

    Only criminals or criminal minded snitch….law abiding citizens report a crime…..Big difference…..and if you read the article you would know the difference. What is this world coming to when you witness a crime and not lift a finger to call for help? When it’s your turn for help, what u gonna do? get ready to take it like a man……for people like you I would turn my back on…if you not part of the solution then u part of the problem.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Tried-N-True/ Tried-N-True

    By The Way: Whenever we respond in forums like this, state our feelings and opinions, know that you/we are part of a test—They are testing us, trying to determine the Black mind think and how to go about turning Black thinking around to suit their agenda. Trust me: Much of this is nothing more than a laboratory experiment. THINK ABOUT IT, TALK ABOUT IT and please, please do not shoot the messenger. That’s why you always find items like this written by an “ANONYMOUS SOURCE”.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DaintyJen/ DaintyJen

    yea this “snitching” stuff is just stupid. One doesn’t even have to answer the question. Just think, if u were a victim wouldn’t u want answers? I’m thankful for all of those who “snitched” when this lady ran the red light and totaled my car lol.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/qeutiepei/ qeutiepei

    It is your business if your house gets burned down cuz a meth lab next door blows up….. so call the police and tell them you smell meth gases….. your life could very well be in danger. Last night i was sitting in my house combing my daughters hair, Police took a dealer down in my back yard. They were shoooting into my house. what if they had shot my daughter, should I mind my business? If I see it I report it cuz it also affects me.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Tried-N-True/ Tried-N-True

    This is begining to make me laugh because if you look at the big picture: Those who run the government lie, law enforcement lies, even on a state, county, city level, politicians lie, wall street lie, your boss lies—–You see where I’m going with this? HELL THE US OF AMERICA STILL HAVE NOT TOLD THE CITIZENS THE TRUTH ABOUT MANY THINGS! People, don’t get caught up in the BS they are trying to spoon feed us, while pissing on us and telling us it’s raining. I suspect we all need to look deeply behind this curtain they are trying to pull over our eyes and see WHO is the wizard, sitting ther mocking and laughing at us…..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/grownman49/ grownman49

    If doin dirt together…. Code of silence applies, but if a civilian is being harmed, then no that is not snitching…I asked someone if someone was harming your mother or a loved one and someone witnessed this action taking place would you want them to tell… A: Hell yeah… so be it.. Even the hardest cat want’s protection for his or her family and they want people looking out for them. thats one of the dumbest “hood Laws” they came up with… again if we doin dirt together and you tell that is what makes you a rat.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/A_Lost_Man/ A_Lost_Man

    This is why the black community is so f**ked up…too many of us adopt a counter-productive sense of morals (or lack thereof). Its a mentality like this that companies (and jobs) don’t come into the black community…because we allow the criminal element among us to dictate a code the rest of us whould live by. If I see you coming, I’m going to break my finger off pointing you out! And as for “snitches get stitches,” they you didn’t buy the last gun in the shop…step if you wish!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/kmdenver/ kmdenver

    “Snitching” is what criminals (aka sellouts) do to one other. When a member of our community PROTECTS our community that is righteous and positive. If you have cancer, it’s imperative that you remove the tumor.If some sellout is hurting our community, our people, our family- by violence, drugs, or theft, then that brother or sister needs to be out. It’s no different than the KKK, the Nazis, skinheads, or the Aryan nation. Whoever hurts our people needs to get taken out- one way or another. Let them repent to God for their sins BEHIND BARS. I want our people to live and thrive.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Toni_Anthony/ Toni_Anthony

    Thank God we are in the age of Camera Phones! For instance, while riding the train in Chicago in the late evening! There are always a GROUP of young punk’s walking from car to car on the train F**kin with people for no reason! I alway’s take PICTURE’S of those B**ches for 2 reason’s, 1 if they are Victimizing another person, I got their A**’s on Video & 2 if I’m the possible victim, I got their A**’s on video, but sadly the blade action I’ll put on their A**’s won’t be able to be video, unless another think’s like I do. 3 Lbs of Steel I carry on me & I already know they are Coward’s & that’s why they travel in pack’s to begin with! If I cut 1 the other
    one’s will scatter like the rat’s they are! I don’t have to Snitch, all I got to do is raise up my phone & from there, their F**ken a**’s is on the nightly new’s big time and 3 Mommy’s (Grand/Birth/Baby) won’t be able to SCREAM, SCREECH, CURSE & FUSS what good boy’s the punk’s are unless they claim folk’s are stoned blind! I’ll do better than SNITCH! I’ll put their A**’s on Video Blast Big Time! Little B**CHES!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/3daysproof/ 3daysproof

    I hate michael jackson but like him “im starting with the man in the mirror” basically be what you want to see nobody will challenge you if you’re truly trying to improve things. So no “black” “white” whoever don’t snitch because snitches are usually up to something their selves.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Lustful_Sins/ Lustful_Sins

    3daysproof… WHAT ! HOW THE HELL COULD U HATE MICHAEL JACKSON ? R.I.P

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sweetwilly41/ sweetwilly41

    Good night to all,

    Let me first say something that occurred yesterday and it is my belief, even thou there is no evidence to back it up, that i was hit with a Trojan – RostockBOT from this site(Blackplanet). It cause me alot of pain and took 24hrs out of my life. It blacklisted my mail server and crashed the computer i was using but thank god for school and the brain i have i was able to rebuild the PC and remove my mail IP from the blacklist and secure my network and all PCs. I am not sure if its because of my comment on the White cop cornrows or the comment i made about BP poor Patter Matching programming or the stories that BP continue to run that does nothing to uplift Black people as a social networking site that is geared at a black audience.

    To address this matter, which is indeed a no matter to start with and therefore is not news worthy, Snitching as it is commonly called here(USA)as nothing to do with Mafia’s code of silence. This site’s editor again is unable to put phrases and terms into proper context as it relates to ethnicity. The only plausible reason that he/she can see or think of is in relation to crime hence the reference to Mafia. So for the sake of history let me educate or give the editor another prospective on this subject.

    Snitching is not synonymous with African American, this has been around Africans for 400 years and has nothing to do with the present day activities of crime in black communities.

    Many of the slave rebellions were put down in their early stages and some never got started because enslaved Africans informed ( in the West Indies the word informer is used instead of snitching and a common saying is “Informa fi dead”) on there fellow men and in the end the White salve owner would brutalize those who were responsible. Lets take the 1763 Slave rebellion of Guyana, the enslaved African Cuffy lead this revolt and was later betrayed by his fellow men. Haiti Salve rebellion 1789 led by Toussaint and here again there was another betrayal by his fellow men and i can go on and on with caribbean/West Indian History to show the origin and how entrench this is in our culture as black people. A typical Snitch/Informer carry names like Uncle Tom, Johnny Jumper, soup drinker etc. The term has more weight when referred to in an oppressed environment eg. Slavery and now Racial Profiling by the Police and this is not just in the USA but all over the world where black people live and yes where we rule/govern too. The Police has replaced the Slave owners and as such those terms will always be in effect. Until the words of brother Bob Marley(Until there is no first class or second citizen of any nation) come to pass.

    So editor your article was a display of your Freudian thoughts, which focuses on the linguistic tendency of majorities to negatively label minorities or those seen as deviant from norms. We as black people historically have a problem with with informers/snitchers and regardless what most black people would say here most would not snitch.

    Now as it relates to crime thats different crime is crime and if you break the law you should go to jail and thats plain simple there is no snitching in that. However, if your oppressors come for your black brother and you know they are going to beat him, frame him, tie him to a truck and drag him for miles regardless of the law they are paid with your dollars to uphold would you SNITCH/INFORM? There is much much more to this snitching thing and is not a topic that you can just center on crime.

    Are they any good stories in the world about Black People BP?

    What you set out here to do again editor is to lump all blacks into a category of crime. Again not and uplifting story for us. I hope you are not Black because you ancestor would turning over in their graves for the nonsense you write here for web-ad dollars

    swhat you did is comfirm to with the labeling

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/paha/ paha

    To most people it’s only snitching when it doesn’t affect your personal space. A lot of people think it’s a simple thing to just tell what you saw and they naively believe that they will remain anonymous. But consider the possibility that the police may release your name and address,(either accidently or on purpose) and then you, your family, your property are at risk. The truth is the the police either can’t or won’t protect you so if you decide to tell what you know, be prepared to sacrifice and know that it will no longer be in your control. So for many it’s not the code of the streets, it’s the first law of nature….self preservation.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/playaa_2000/ playaa_2000

    It aint snitching, it’s called doing the right thing. And most of these crimes are committed on your own people (black on black crime). If a bunch of thugs broke into your mother’s home and robbed, raped, and killed her. Would you want justice served? If the brother across the street from you house saw who did it, would you want him to testify or would you rather him keep it real and not snitch? That’s some ignorant sh*t to have that kind of mentality!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/63TMB/ 63TMB

    i just love how everybody talks about its the right thing to tell but guess what??? in alot of place if you snitch your 6 feet under ESPECIALLY in New Orleans. I witnessed a murder and i knew who did it and i was threatened with my life and my families life. so i stood silent. the witness protection program is a joke. are u willing to testify when it could mena (or probably will mean putting you or your family in grave danger) That’s the question to ask

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Ra718/ Ra718

    I agree with alot of the post, but you also have to remember that the penal system only makes people worse off than when they came in. Then there released back into the commmunity, to do it again, so the lawyers, courts, co’s ,and so on can get paid to contribute to the economy. Thats part of the bigger picture.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/g-slick1/ g-slick1

    i agree wit Paha,,in my city,i had homeboys dat got snitch on ,and the cops told who did it,,so they cud beat and kill each others,,,,and they did…,,i grew up wit elders tellin me dat its no place in the world for a tattle tail,,to me i just cud’nt live wit myself if i snicth ,,its just not me real talk,,,i serve time for my kinfolk snitching on me ,,the cops wanted me to snitch ,and i said no,so he said well u got forty years to think about it ,,,when court day came i only got a year ,,,so if i had snitch i still wud have got an year,,so my point is snitchin wud,nt help me at all..real talk ,,g_slick 1 holla,,

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/kellie_18/ kellie_18

    i honstely think they should snitch on who ever da f**k they can to many crimes 4 real while da white man sit back n laugh dnt u see white people would snitch on ur ass in a heart beat COME ON PEOPLE WAKE DA F**K UP!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Holyghostgirl24/ Holyghostgirl24

    I DON’T CARE WHAT ANYONE SAY, IF I SEE ONE OF MY FAMILY MEMBERS, FRIENDS OR ONE OF MY FRIENDS FAMILY MEMBER BE INVOLVED IN A CRIMINAL ACT WITH THEM GETTING INJURED AND I SEEN WHO DID IT, HEG YES IM GOING TO SNITCH! GOD IS THE ONLY PERSON THAT I FEAR, AND IF I WAS NOT TO SAY ANYTHING, I WOULD BE GOING AGAINST HIS COMMANDMENTS! THATS WHY WE HAVE ALL OF OUR YOUTH GETTING SHOT AND KILLED, BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE STRAIGHT PUNKS THESE DAYS! THEY SEE THINGS HAPPEN AND TOO AFRAID TO COME FORTH! BUT ITS FUNNY HOW WHEN THE SHOE IS ON THE OTHER FOOT, AND SOMEONE HAS DID SOMETHING TO THEM OR THEIR FAMILY MEMBER, THEY GET ALL ON THE NEWS STATIONS BEGGING THE COMMUNITY TO GIVE UP A NAME AND IDENTIFY THE SUSPECT FOR POLICE! IM SO SICK OF THOSE STUPID SAYINGS LIKE,” SNITCHES GET STITCHES!” BECAUSE OF PEOPLE BEING SO AFRAID TO DO THE RIGHT THINGS, OUR COMMUNITIES ARE GOING DOWN THE DRAIN AND OUR YOUTH ARE SUFFERING! WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!!!!!! STOP BEINGS PUNKS AND TAKE A STAND!!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/makeherwett870/ makeherwett870

    My community was horrible when I was coming up, now we have made great strides to bring it up and getting rid of the criminals. I don’t live by the street so I don’t live by it’s codes. If you break the law in my area I will see that you leave one way or another. We have to many kids playing everyday and when kids are involved all intimidation is put aside. I’m not intimidated i’m just saying. It’s that mentality that makes the black community a haven for criminals. LAck of involvement by the people. That’s sad really pathetic and and an ideology that only set the race back to pre civil rights. Being in bondage by whites or blacks is still bondage.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jdahotboy/ jdahotboy

    black people been snitching, EVERYBODY snitching even the big “drug dealers” how do u think the police and the government makes money it’s a BUSINESS!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Blue-Skies/ Blue-Skies

    SMH! Wow, I read these comments and some of them all I see is ignorance, ignorance, IGNORANCE. But Hey, you can be ignorant all you want and Stop Snitching. But as for me, If it ever comes to that or someone’s in serious danger then being a good citizen it is. I have a non-tolerance for that violence bulls*it. So whatever…That’s just how it is.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/monipeny/ monipeny

    Black people want safe areas to live in but don’t to do what it takes to make it safe. The police can’t do everything by themselves. We’ve had 2 to 3 churches on the block for years, millions of prayers sent up every year. Guess what? Those prayers aint working, why because words mean nothing if there is no action behind it. Black people want drug free communities then they need to watch their areas and report crime when they see it even if it’s the “guy selling nickel-bags while wearing flip-flops”. Beacuse in a few days that same guy will be bringing in the drugs while wearing gators and he’ll have someone else in flip-flops in your area. DUM DUMS BETTA START SNITCHING OR KEEP ON DIGGING GRAVES.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JZERO/ JZERO

    tell me why the last time i saw a “stop snitching” shirt it was on some dude talking about “they gotta find tupac and biggie’s killers” coming out of that movie notorious?….. well maybe its cause they havent been “snitched” out homie

    or maybe its because the people that preach “stop snitching” are cowards and dont man-up

    it seems to me that the majority of people with that mentality are more worried about looking trendy than anything else… if something effects you directly (like a crime of violence in your community) you need to take care of that, even if it means talking to a local authority(whether its a housing manager or law enforcement)….

    im just saying, im not trying to live in some slum…. i came to this country cause that wasnt cutting it back home, so imma live right

    its not snitching if its preservation and if you dont want people to be “snitching” tell em to stop being cowards and MAN-UP for what they done

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dmanuwant7/ Dmanuwant7

    How can you have a crime free community if everyone is afraid to take a stand and protect the Village. The Village concept is I am my brothers keeper. Law enforcement can’t be everywhere all the time. There are benefits to keeping the Police informed about crime in your neighborhood; such as increase in property value (who is gonna buy a house in a crime riddle neighborhood), peace of mind and safety, the latter being priceless. Our children deserves to live in an environment where they can thrive and aspire to achieve more than we have. I will be damned for a serial killer, Drug dealer, hell even a speeding neighbor am calling the cop. Those rappers, entertainer, bottom feeders whatever they call themselves are simply taking advantage of a fad that fits their studio persona. so enough complaining—-
    Solution
    1. STOP BUYING CAMRON CD OR GOING TO CONCERTS- DON’T WORRY YOU AINT MISSING MUCH HE’S WACK AS CRACK.
    2. STOP BUYING CD’S OF RAPPERS, ROCKERS, R&bERS (NOT A WORKD), ENTERTAINERS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEPRIVATION OR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY.
    3. JOIN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD CRIME WATCH–MCRIFF CAN SAVE YOU A LOT OF HEADACHE
    4. SPEND MORE TIME WITH OUR KIDS
    5. GO TO CHURCH
    6-100 – TAKE YOUR KIDS TO SABBATH SCHOOL, SUNDAY SCHOOL AND DO YOUR MORNING DEVOTION.

    MUCH LOVE – GOD LOVE YOU AND SO DO I

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BallinYoung22/ BallinYoung22

    YEAH SNITCH AS MUCH AS YOU CAN BECAUSE MURDER IS NO JOKE AND HURTING SOMEONE ELSE ISN’T RIGHT. IF SOMEONE MURDERED YOU WOULDN’T YOU WANT THE PERSON THAT SEEN IT OCCUR TO SNITCH. BRING THOSE BASTARDS WHO THINK THEY CAN COMMIT CRIMES AND GET AWAY WITH IT TO JUSTICE.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigj97216/ bigj97216

    Should police start snitching?, should bankers and financial institutions start snitching?, should are government officials start snitching?. That should be the question asked also, as the consequences to all of us is even greater when the ruling class fails to snitch when they know about corruption. But of course so called Black media instead on building us up, enriching our minds and lives, appealing to the good in our society they appeal to the lowest common denominator. Black Planet and all of of most of it’s affiliates, BET feed us pablum they seek to to destroy our culture for their own financial gain. How many positive stories do we get to read on hear?, what do we mostly see on BET? One would think nothing good ever comes from Black communities from what we see on here. As for me I stopped watching BET years ago, and if it weren’t for the hand full of positive groups and the friends I speak with on occasion I would have left here long ago. Have any of you seen the number pro racist/White supremest groups on here? The number Black stepin fechit, Black KKK on hear is astounding. Dave Chapelle was on to something when he did that skit, The Black KKK. Thank God for FaceBook.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Smyles02/ Smyles02

    This whole “stop snitching” sh*t is stupid. There is no loyalty amongst thieves! And I for damn sure will not be going to jail for anybody! That’s why a lot of communities are polluted with drugs and crime. You don’t want to open your mouth until it’s one of your young ones or some other family member laid up in the street shot or somewhere in a landfill getting stiff. How can you uphold someone causing harm like that? If I had a son and his ass was out there cutting up…no mercy. Especially knowing I’ve told you what is right. I raised you to do what is right and you still do wrong? That goes for anybody. We all suffer the consequences of our actions. You just have to accept that and be responsible for you.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/masculine31/ masculine31

    Wowerz…this should be a NO BRAINER, wuteva happen to do wuts right?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SEXI_SHEDEVIL/ SEXI_SHEDEVIL

    ley me say right now if i catch you in a criminal act, u better believe im tellin. if im invovled i know the other person or persons involved already ran their mouth. my mama always said the same ppl that you think are your friends, are the same ones that will leave you hangin out to dry. so guess what i’ll be the first one to tell especially if it compromises my well being.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mike_diesel27/ mike_diesel27

    Take this how you want it but, I ain’t going to jail for NO muhfukka!!! If I’m innocent and don’t have anything to do with it, fukk you, do your time!! And leave me outta dat shyt!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/rose_city/ rose_city

    I don’t talk to police now it also depends on the circ**stance and the situation but i’m not snitching for the sake of just telling on someone especially if it’s not hurting anyone.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/juicychick40/ juicychick40

    for 1 we tell on everybody where will they be for our family if it comes out that u r the 1 that ratted on that person hell it take the police a day and a half to COME when u call them already hell know before the police go after the 1′s you telling on they look at your back ground first.Hell know do u think if u get in some trouble they will say oh u told on who ever ur free hell no.Let the police do there own job each is own if the shoe was on the other foot ur so call friends would of done chance there ph. number and forgot about you.y should we help them out what do they do for you beside but u n jail any chance they can.I DON’T HELP I CAN DO BAD OWN MY OWN!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NCNewsandViews/ NCNewsandViews

    It never ceases to amaze the ignorant mess promoted on some of these so called Black websites. You want to know why our children are so messed up, take a look at the content on this this site. Want to know why our communities are filled with so much death and destruction, look at what the author of this article is promoting. Malcolm X said the media is the most powerful entity on earth because it controls the minds of the masses. So called Black media has Black folks walking around mindless and messed up.

    Why in the hell would anyone with any kind of sense of self preservation would defend and harbor the very people who are doing us harm.

    Wake up people before you are dead, HIV positive or serving time on the prison plantation. You don’t have to be a dumb nigga all your life.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NCNewsandViews/ NCNewsandViews

    In case I did not make it clear, I agree with the article that it makes no sense to protect criminals or turn a blind eye to the things that are destroying our community. The “man” can bring cocaine into America but he can not make us cook it up into rocks and sell it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NCNewsandViews/ NCNewsandViews

    @juicychick40 I did not understand a “wurd” you wrote.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Xklusiv/ Xklusiv

    Agrees wit NCNews…. I only read these comments to see tha figure of ignorance brave enough to speak out n try to make sense of tha dumbest movement made popular in our community. Now that that i can actually see that thea is actually someone competent enough(juicychick) to try to shed light on this i can say that you are not that bright. So I’m supposed to stay silent when u have killers(both silent and random) living in your neighborhood??? Grow up. Im not tryna get atchu at all. Jus hope u grow up soon and have enough patience to sit n understand tha idea contrary to what u are bein taught by those who dont even practice what they preach

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Smyles02/ Smyles02

    LMAO! I didn’t understand a word she said either. After reading the first 5 words, I went to the next comment. That’s just horrible.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TMAC_35000/ TMAC_35000

    The whole “Stop Snitching” Campaign is just lame and tired!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shanastones1/ shanastones1

    RK your reference to us no longer living in Africa is totally bias and totally racist….have you ever witnessed a crime!!! I have!!! i have scars in my face for the rest of my life due to black on black violence i stood face to face with a killer that is how close i was to it….and because i did not snitch i saw a dead man get handcuffed by the LAPD his face was blown off- do me a favor….you probably live somewhere where you have no idea what gangs, mafias,or even violence in general happens every night and you need to watch every car coming down the street…you just thank god everyday that you made it…forget what the next man is doing….you need to shutup and talk about something you know….people snitch because they are frightened for themselves…not for others

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/persuasive_lyric/ persuasive_lyric

    I was going to say something, but Dmanuwant, you said it all.
    God Bless everybody

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Spongebobfiness09/ Spongebobfiness09

    the dont be a snitch thing is ridiculous , if someone does some ill sh*t to you, and someone sees it, but plays the ‘no snitch card’, then how would you feel, come on now, people need to speak up against wrong doing and that’s called being a good citizen and person

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/laDiosa79/ laDiosa79

    ABSOLUTELY NOT we should not START snitching that even sounds dumb….we don’t need to give police and others anymore reason to be in our business and in our lives and destroying our families and communities. We not to STOP snitching and START being proactive with solutions and working on our problems and issues so there won’t be much to snitch about in the first place. You can not solve a problem by getting rid of the effect it had you have to end the problem permanently by getting the rid of the cause. That’s what we need to do, folks get locked up from snitches and mostly, come back out worse then they went in, so incarceration is not helping. We need to work on the problem so we can fix our people. Not turn them in to folks that aint gone help do nothing but tear us down.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/VA_Slimm/ VA_Slimm

    Ok….let me first start off by saying I agree with all of you but most of you don’t understand what “SNITCHING” really is. To “SNITCH” is for you yourself to be involved in a criminal act with others besides yourself and to get caught and then turn state evidence against those that were with you to either save your own ass from a long sentence or because you don’t want to go down by yourself when you’re the only one who got caught. Snitching is a act of selfishness and desperation. Now if you just so happen to look out your window and see someone you know commit a heinous criminal act then by all means inform your local authorities on what you witnessed and it’s not snitching. The criminals are the only ones that can snitch on another criminal. The only thing that takes it too far is those criminals who threaten witnesses with intimidation of death just so they don’t go to prison so they can stay on the street dealing death to our people and children……AND THAT’S ALL I GOT TO SAY BOUT THAT

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/laDiosa79/ laDiosa79

    I see a lot of folks on here say that snitching is only when u ourself is involved. I find it strange that people have said time and again that if they witness a crime they will tell, then you’re snitching. If you have no idea the totallity of the situation, you’re snitching, you’re telling on someone. Even, my granparents told me it’s not good to be a tattle-tale. If you’re not helping then you’re hurting. Everyone that would be a “witness” to a crime, sees negative things take place everyday that they could change, such as helping a homeless person, being a mentor to our youth, helping out a drug addict or sickly person, and elderly person, a loose female that may need direction, but fail to step up and offer aid there, so why tell when you see those same fallen angels slip and and do dirt. The same people that you know because you watched them turn into the people they are but never said a word or offered help or asked if they needed you in anyway, just sat back and judged and now you aid in the execution of our people but not in the saving. I find that far worse than criminal.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jus-2_chill/ jus-2_chill

    va_slimm said everything that needs to be said on this subject. that was the truth anyway you wanna cut it up and dice it. this conversation really don’t need to go any further.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gods_chosenman/ Gods_chosenman

    Well said VA_Slimm, well said. I agree 100%. If my family or friends are in danger is in danger and I wasnt involved in the crime damn right Im gonna give up info if I know it. But If I committed a crime with friends Im not gonna rat on them to save myself. thats low and even if they find out in prison you snitched they’re gonna kill you. so you have two incentives not to snitch on friends. Plus Im a very loyal person so its just in my nature not to backstab friends and family.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/VA_Slimm/ VA_Slimm

    laDiosa….I agree with you to a extent but how can you help those who don’t want or believe that they don’t need no help. Then what? Let them just do what they do until they feel it’s time for a change? America let white men do that s**t since the beginning of this f**ked up country and now that we had a time for change s**t is still f**ked up. All we got was a black president but the politics and policies are still very much the same. So again I ask….what do you suggest since you feel that you can just go out there and save the world one person at a time by offering them help if they don’t wanna get helped?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shakka/ Shakka

    negros been snitching since the days of slavery…

    martin lawrence even entitled one of his comedy shows “run tell dat”…

    i’ll be glad when the day comes when negros stop letting white folks jerk your chain…

    question you gotta ask yourselves…why are you still trying to please them???

    BP i thought yall were way above this nonsense…but i guess nonsense sells…i can’t knock the hustle…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gods_chosenman/ Gods_chosenman

    One of the first things were taught growing up is that tattle telling is bad. You shouldent be opening up your mouth anyways if you dont know whats going on. Most other minority groups are the same way…mexicans dont tell on each other neither do asians.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/VA_Slimm/ VA_Slimm

    Oh yeah……and to sign out……R.B.G.(Revolutionary But Gangsta) 4 LIFE

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/randolph44137/ randolph44137

    The stop snitching thing is something to say to sound cool, and to sell shirts. But I am willing to bet my life that given the possiblity of doing 25 years in prison, or a lessor sentence the same person running around yelling stop snicthing, is going to be singing like a bird.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/amuseme23/ amuseme23

    yall know the code only cho mos you tell on them thats it stick to code im out

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SUTRA913/ SUTRA913

    it’s easy to go with the stop snitching code when you don’t own property and when the crime is not done to you or your loved ones. i say snitch if you have to protect your property value because if you didn’t know crime lowers it. you also need to do it before that crime hits to close to home and protect your family.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/revolutionarynam/ revolutionarynam

    …the Black Community is supposed to protect itself…Safety is #1…criminals don’t have codes becaus if you know anything about Lawless individuals there is NO HONOR AMONGST THIEVES…that’s why most of these losers leach off of family members and intimidate young girls coercing them into statutory rape and other crimes…STOP BSing urselves…THE CRIMINALS ARE THE SNITCHES JUST ASK THE COPS THEY WORK FOR!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jus-2_chill/ jus-2_chill

    shakka, i agree with you, but i think it’s time to knock the hustle because aint nobody paying for it but us. gods_chosenman, i agree with you too, but the reason all other races stick together is because only nig,gers believe in that bullsh,it statement, “there is only one race, the human race.” the rest of the races don’t see it that way until they get the fever for the flavor of a black pu,ssy or our money. the only race that believes that is a conquered race. you do the math. it’s kind of like, “well if yo can’t beat em, join em,” kind of thinking. ni,ggers are the most dispicable motherf,,uckers on the planet brothers and sisters and i say that to you in love not offence. when you loose your religion and realize that you are the sole controller of your destiny you will see that you can not move without your nation, community, and family. then you will see why i say that. then you will see why our race is seen as the most foul on the planet.our women are the easiest b,it,ches to f**k in this world because the men are confused, weak, and all to willing to allow others to think for them. yall done got me started and it’s only 10am here in chicago and i’m ready for war already lol!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/VA_Slimm/ VA_Slimm

    Well if u ready for war then get ur weapons of mass distruction and let’s revolt against this farce we call our country tis of thee…sweet land of liberty. Most black youth in this country today have the shackles on their mind and aren’t liberated yet but once they open their eyes and see what those that are liberated see then that will be the fall of America and the rise of New Afrika…..UHURU

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jus-2_chill/ jus-2_chill

    oh yeah, im not going to say any names, but someone sent me a note calling me all kinds of bad names and stuff of the like because of my point of view about reverse racism and braids. if you wanna tell me how you feel about a point i made, be civilized and leave me a note and express your self to me, your all welcome to my page and im open to be corrected if i am wrong. im the type who will check myself first, but don’t disrespect me like that playaz because trust me, you would never do that to my face. be cool.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/revolutionarynam/ revolutionarynam

    …Respect is the key for anyone who wants to receive it in return…LAWLESSNESS means illegal conduct and ill-gotten gain…funny how crack was never cool and still isn’t into some fake^ss rappers brought their white supremacist agenda into our HIP HOP CULUTRE…Hip Hop is not crack, no biting, and not White culture status…HIP HOP community since the 70′s and Real 80′s baby says “crack is wack”, biters are p*ssy plagiarist, and our culture is AFRICAN NUBIAN CULTURE…so if you know any rappers who promote Lawlessness then you should know that they and all criminals who try to hurt our Black Community ARE THE SELLOUTS, MINSTRELS, SAMBOS, AND HOUSE N*GGERS TO OUR COMMUNITY…AGAIN LOSER ^SS CRIMINALS ARE THE SNITCHES AND THEY WORK WITH WHITE COPS TO HARASS AND BRING DOWN BLACK UNITY…WE ARE DESCENDANTS OF NUBIAN GODS THE REAL SAINTS AND RULERS OF THIS EARTH!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ebonyblazer251/ ebonyblazer251

    The stop snitching ‘movement’ is one of the most ignorant things I’ve ever seen in my life. This meme that nobody is supposed to cooperate with the police or any law enforcement is insane. We complain about the crime in our neighborhoods, but we aren’t willing to work with the very institutions working to do just that?

    Aren’t we tired yet of having to move ‘out the hood’? That chicken-y s**t is for rich folks (mostly white, some black too unfortunately) without the patience to be part of the solution. We’ve got to do better in holding police accountable, yet equipping them to succeed. We’ve got to hold our elected officials accountable, too–vote out career politicos if they aren’t getting the job done.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/VA_Slimm/ VA_Slimm

    My thoughts on revolutionarynam…..Uhuru my man. These muphuckaz out here don’t even know that they’re engaging in New World Slavery. Let us sell it until we get too rich then come lock us up and take the money for themselves. Black people…..aka u wanna be drug dealin thug niggaz….WAKE UP

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/calimami1975/ calimami1975

    If ANY ONE here saw their CLOSEST FAMILY MEMEBER KILLED right in front of them and KNOW who did it, and you don’t say who did, you let that person die in vein. If we as a community want to stop the violence then we need to let the “Criminals” (WHITE, BLACK, HISPANIC, WHATEVA!)know that they are being watched and will be told on. This is now a nation of People in the HUMAN RACE ( Well said jus-2_chill) And Cam’rom might move before he says anything, but um if that serial killer did something to his fam, I don’t think he would move, i think he would take it into his own hands, and THAT is where we loose as a society. THAT IS WHY WE NEED TO TELL ON CRIMINALS!!! ITs only SNITCHING IF YOU TELL ON YOUR CO-CONSPIRITORS/CRIMINALs

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/VA_Slimm/ VA_Slimm

    But back to the subject at hand… me myself personally I don’t talk to the police for s**t no matter what. If I got caught doing somethin or seen someone do some s**t….Until they stop lockin up niggaz like Mumia Abu Jamal, Geronimo Pratt and other innocent black men, and harassing us and racially profiling us then I (me) personally don’t see myself in aiding them in any way shape or form. I was jus recently a victim of racial profiling walkin down the damn street in front of my own damn house so all I can say is Phuck em…the holice(police) that is…Oh yea did y’all know the acronym for C.O.P. in Latin is Corruptio Optima Pessima and what that means in English is corruption of the best is the worst of it all….Think about that next time u wanna talk to a COP

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jbsweet1/ Jbsweet1

    Snitching-that word is some bull-if someone has committed a violent crime, I think it’s my duty and everyone else’s to make sure they’re stopped BEFORE they do it 2 someone else-inc. myself or my family. Now, if I see a kid take a bag of chips, I can look the other way. But not reporting REAL crimes is stupid & makes mainly Black & Hispanic communities worse.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigwillylandis/ bigwillylandis

    why complain about living in the ghetto when your not going to do anything to clean it up. plain and simple.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/revolutionarynam/ revolutionarynam

    …eXactly SOLDIER…WAKE UP!!! (self destruction ur headed for self destruction) our prophets already told us this would happen…black people think more of ursleves…YOU ARE THE SALT OF THE EARTH, THE SAINTS, AND RULERS SPOKEN OF IN SCRIPTURE…Everything this world has and all nations comes FROM YOU!!! This is why their is lip collagen, shots in the ass, and a tanning salon damn near everywhere you go with pale people because they like their house n*ggers get everything FROM YOU!!! They worship and clone like Shatan workships God (THROUGH JEALOSY AND ENVY)…That mafiosa pale culture status shyt is DEAD!!!…AFRICAN NUBIAN CULTURE, MATH, SCIENCE, INTELLIGENCE, AND RESPECT IS HONORED BUT THE TRUE SONS OF GOD, US!!!…BLACK PANTHERS WERE HEAR THROUGH SMACK AND STILL HEAR THROUGH CRACK AND BOTH ARE CONDEMNED VICES 2 ATTACK US BY LILITH (THE W***E OF BABYLON) AND HER FALSE SERPENT GOD LUCIFER…Through WISDOM the Nubians conquered egypt establishing the 25th dynasty…We will conquer the false worlds (ideologies) of our enemies and Rule the entire Earth!!!(CRIMINALS ARE THE F*CKIN’ SNITCHES).

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jhollins/ jhollins

    Where I come from snitching is a death sentence (literally). Pedophiles, Rapists and Serial Killers are excluded from my code of ethics (yes I would snitch on them). I don’t like Police much and it’s because the way I was treated by them growing up. I live in a pretty affluent area now and I still get harassed because I shouldn’t be able to afford live here…but I digress. I don’t believe in snitching I have a very close friend who got caught for something we all did and he didn’t give us up for a lighter sentence. He did 7 years and we made sure he was taken care of when incarcerated and when he came home. Those instances are when the stop snitching rules apply. If you’re involved in criminal activities then you should abide by those rules. You shouldn’t expect upstanding law abiding citizens to uphold that same code of ethics that is supposed to be unwritten law between street cats.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/HmBusOwner/ HmBusOwner

    This is what simply cracks me up, how brainwashed of a society we people of african decent have become. We have here the question should we rat on our own people to the whiteman. Knowing very well that the goal of white supremancy and racism is the destruction of the black family structure by jailing our young blackmen. Put on top of that … this christian jewish society we live in … all these passionate lovers of Jesus, and the question of do we snitch on our brother.

    The most important thing I learned as a child that Judas was dead wrong for selling Jesus out. That snitching is one of the worst things to do in our community. Blackpeople on Sunday professing to want to be like Jesus … and afterwards act like Judas. In prison you will lose your life for snitching. But then again … maybe this is what we deserve for adopting a book written by William Shakesphere for a krakker king who wanted to stick his nose in religon King James of England. A krakker who started his own church so he could divorce his wife. And generally speaking we took to his teachings like a duck to water.

    Without a doubt … on my block … in my hood … we will beat you down, and not call a cop. And I own a home, worked hard for everything I have. I want black people policing our own … and not in no dayum uniform supporting white supremancy and racism. And a black cop is no better than the overseer on the plantation durning slavery. Not enough police officers are being killed. Maybe then our young brothers and sisters (our babies) won’t want to become cops.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lovechild0716/ lovechild0716

    I noticed alot of people use the analogy of “if a crime happened to your family mebers” would you tell. I have witnessed on several occasions where BLACK victim’s families have filed charges and the POLICE and laws did little or nothing to the perp who victimized these people. That in itself happens every day, so my argument is this, i think black communities are conditioned into this so called “stop snithching” mess, becasue they don’t feel truley protected by laws. and when you really look at it, the justice system is about money, if a criminal has enough money, they’ll buy there way out of most situations any. so alot of people feel the best way to get even is to take the law into their own hands

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ldixon14/ ldixon14

    I co-sign with “HmBusOwner” – so eloquently expressed!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NYCsmoove/ NYCsmoove

    This is one reason why black people are in the mess that we’re in. This ghetto mentality about not snitching got to stop. This is why so many innocent children dying in our community and their killers are o the loose. The violence in our community will never end because of ignorance like this…enough said!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    lol @ HmBusOwner… Judas snitched on Jesus, so we can see the affect that snitching has although if that would have not happened then we still wouldn’t have a way back to the “Tree Of Life”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    one more thing…

    Judas snitched on Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, and at that time, 30 pieces of silver was less then the value of a female slave or servant. So imagine that, the Savior of this world was not only sold out but for less then that of what an actually male slave would be sold for. So to my people… Stop Snitching and Stop Selling Out!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lil_mama_bad1/ lil_mama_bad1

    don’t snitch period….. its stupid for them 2 bring that up knowing that black people are not stupid 2 even snitch on each other. STOP DOING STUPID stuff pple we come 2 far 4 this

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Antipop712/ Antipop712

    haha evil officially won lol yes
    only in this new generation you are truly own your own
    kids killing kids having kids killing elders and no remorse
    no true friends, family members or allies or even enemies
    everyone has their own code of “ethics”. good luck to everyone when
    the s**t hits the fan in 2012 good hearted people lost
    and evil is everywhere there is nowhere to run now
    not even church so when good hearted people are pushed
    into a corner they will fight and kill break their only rule
    so then everyones a lost soul haha theirs not a single drop of hope for anyone anywhere better grab your gun (its already started !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    welcome to the end of the world

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/QueenBlu9366/ QueenBlu9366

    if it not that inportant like a death issue. NO we shouldn’t snitch on each other.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/XL_611/ XL_611

    Man. You people don’t understand the story of Judas. Judas committed suicide when he found out the consequences of his act. He didn’ think he was selling Jesus out.

    Christ knew Judas was his weakest link. The apostles had to keep his location secret, else he be taken into custody. He knew this because Judas never questioned him, where the other apostles would argue with him. Thus, he knew Judas did not have the wisdom of character to guide him and he would fall prey to the tricks of deception.

    Judas was offered money to “help” Jesus in his mission to help the poor, or some such. The other apostles knew such people needed to be vetted, but Judas was eager to gain respect and his weak character did not allow him to see that he needed to follow instructions and check these people out before giving them any information.

    The evidence is clear. He committed suicide upon discovering his actions resulted in betrayal. The amount of money was quite small. Judas was considered the most faithful, but only because he never questioned Christ, where the others would argue with him like “brothers”.

    The story of Judas is then one of a fool, not a traitor….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/hipswang/ hipswang

    This author is so very right! It used 2 mean some other sh*t and i still agree w/that credo. but this new one I feel like if u’re not going 2 do anything about it then u should at least help police do their jobs. At the same time since they aren’t a part of our communities (police used to police their own communities and had friends and connections now they’re just demanding patronizing mostly unhelpful strangers), they aren’t as concerned w/out well being as they should be and lots of ppl are getting seriously hurt or killed if they’re even suspected of talking to 5-0. So I say do what u can don’t not help on principal but if it involves the safety of u and ur family then DON’T SNITCH.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/littlebabymia/ littlebabymia

    RK Byers, you say some stupid s**t, “We no longer live in Africa, folks.” The majority of Black American have never been to Africa. I have they don’t have the same problems we have in America, their’s are worst. As far as snitching if a stupid f**k hurts my family they should hope someone snitches to save that ass! I beleive an eye for an eye end all the bs. If something drastic isn’t done the mess festers, grows and boils over. Then it’s too late. Why can’t people just be responsible without all the extra mess?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/RaptureMaterial/ RaptureMaterial

    I can only wonder if it was someone white to post a stupid question like this on a black website. Are you serious? Come on now…I cant help but to think this some kind of governmental trap because everyone knows that if you snitch then you need to request for you last meal, a cigarette, and a minister. Come on Puuuuleeeez!!! Please tell me that you ran out of things to ask, so you just started drawing questions out of hat. I would rather hear a question regarding something like: why do seahorses carry their babies on their backs?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/itskindadangerous2be/ itskindadangerous2be

    Snitching is when you can’t keep ya mouth shut about victimless crimes. Selling drugs on the corner and streetwalkers in the neighborhood are not victimless, but callgirls and herbal delivery are. Violence with weapons is not reasonable, but a one on one fist fight where nobody has to go to the hospital and both fools jumped into it is victimless.

    Snitching is what’s done when fools want to report victimless crimes, lunacy is what we have when you don’t report the serial killer you know damn well is attacking innocent victims and lives next door.

    Stop Snitching, but don’t be a lunatic.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HcXcYlF3_0

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JahQues/ JahQues

    AN IGNORANT COMMUNITY, IS A DEAD COMMUNITY.
    It’s amazing to hear some of the mindless bullsh** some folks give as to reasons why BLACK people should not SNITCH. WTF?? Some people wanna connect it to Jesus and Judas, some blame it on a history of abuse at the hand of the “MAN”. When the fuc* are Black people gonna realize, WE HAVE BECOME OUR OWN ENEMY. When we allow drug dealers and gang bangers to convince us NOT to rat them out, WE HAVE LOST TO OURSELVES. Thsoe same gangsters sit in courts and police stations every day and SNITCH on each other to get lesser jail sentences. And some of ya’ll buying that BS!!! We’ve been fooled by our own communities. We have now embraced the criminals that are killing us everyday and have given them a GREEN light in our hoods. That’s why our communties are devalued and forgotten, many of our urban schools are poor and our families don’t exist. THIS IS THE REASON. Cause we’re letting the uneducated mother f**ke’s tell us what to do. They keep our hoods in fear and threaten us to the point that we believe bullshi’* like STOP SNITCHING. How about we START SNITCHING? on the rapist, drug dealers, gang bangers and crackheads. And then see if we can take our communities back from these niggas. BLACK PEOPLE WAKE UP!!! Can you blame smart people for moving out the hood and leaving them desolate. Who the hell wants to have their family next door to people who will ignore criminals and refuse to turn in a murderer. Some of ya’ll are drinking some serious FoolAid. WTF!!! ???
    JahQues (If you don’t know, now you know)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/j_inyourarea/ j_inyourarea

    Snitching: I guess it is if you belong or have pledged allegiance to a group, crew, etc. If crime is your business, then it is. You have to understand that their are those who may be adversely affected by that business; in terms of being physically harmed or killed; losing a loved one. There is also the “business”, the purpose of keeping one’s community safe, crime-free, or at least major, potentally violent crime-free. This push and pull comes down to one thing: R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Even criminals know that people should not being dying and wasting their lives like this. Good people together or People doing good together is more powerful than any crime organization. Especially in our (Black) community. We have got to raise the level of self-respect not to be confused with self-glorification.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Mr_Jones810/ Mr_Jones810

    I see a lot of people are making excuses for our community, when truth to the matter there is no community in a black area, it’s just a black neighborhood we move in and out of neighborhoods on the daily. Loyalty, this cats out here know nothing about loyalty, you get locked up trying to be real on the streets get out your baby mama pregnant by your boy, or married to your hommie, why do time for someone who ain’t got time to take care of your home front. If there was a snitch in africa then maybe we wouldn’t be over here, so is that what you really think is whats wrong with how we live today. We are whats wrong we find to many excuses that prevent us from handling our business. Not enough kids in schools, not enough food in the house, not enough black homeowners, not enough black officials, well damnit we have plenty of dumbass’s on the street corner’s telling us how to live our life in fear and they can’t even go vote because of their felonies. How you choose to call it, your hood isn’t no better than anybody else’s hood, snitch in my hood thats your ass, hell snitching in any hood is your ass, so what do you say when innocent kids are killed by stray bullets you right they turn themselves in why because somebody told them to, or that was going to be their ass, no because their parent or sibling said do the right thing, it starts with us black people stop blaming others for what we have to do, damnit are we that stupid, are we blinded by the bling, and the limit of green that we put in our pockets thats gone by morning. Tell this story to somebody that isn’t in the hood, I hate living in the hood there is no benefit but death and destructions, so am I a sell out because I want to go move next door to a white man that will snitch on me in a minute, oh well atleast I know he ain’t afraid of my black ass, he cherish what he worked hard for, and so do I good people look out for good people plain and simple, aside of racism aside of neighborhoods you are responsible for your individual role in life, so what role are you playing that of the Devil or that of the Lord

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/explicit_mix52/ explicit_mix52

    The reality is people that snitch there is always reprocussions. The same people witnessing crime is the same people not snitch. When I was growing up there was unity my community. They banded together and our street became a safe haven now around the corner was a different thing lol.

    Black communities are missing MEN of moral and courage to stand up to teh bullies. Back in the day if an adult caught u acting up in the streets they would whoop ur ass then take u home by the ear for ur momma to whoop ur ass. then the family men got in on it for the boys. These hustlers arent men.

    How is the next generation susposed to get better if u have grown ass boys teaching their sons rap songs and curse word but no values or morals. It starts with the childhood.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MartinX4u/ MartinX4u

    WE ARE TO BE LAW ABIDDING CITIZEN’S BUT HOW CAN YOU TELL PEOPLE IT’S THEIR JOB TO AID AND HELP LAW ENFORCEMENT BY TELLING ON OTHER’S THAT BREAK THE LAW WHEN THE CODE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT IS THE SAME WHEN THEY BREAK THE LAW THEY DON’T SNITCH ON ONE ANOTHER FOR THOSE BEATINGS AND KILLINGS THEY DO THEY HATE SNITCHES AND DON’T LIKE THE PUBLIC TO TELL ON THEIR WRONG DOINGS EITHER SO THATS ANOTHER DOUBLE STANDARD WE ARE TO LIVE BY I BELIEVE WHEN THEY START TELLING THE TRUTH ON THEMSELVES THEN SNITCHING WON’T BE WRONG PEOPLE NEED TO STOP BEING HYPOCRITES !!!!!!!!!! MR. MARTINX LOVE,PEACE AND STUDY WANT 4 YOUR BROTHER WHAT YOU WANT FOR YOURSELF.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/PRINCE_DEJOUR/ PRINCE_DEJOUR

    For those that don’t want to help the community be removing the crime element then don’t complain. If you love living in a war zone then good luck.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/steve797/ steve797

    I HATE COPS POINT BLANK… AND SOMETIMES WHEN I LOOK AT THE NEWS AND I DONT SEE A STORY OF A COP GETTIN KILLED I GET SAD… BECAUSE COPS ARE THE WORST ELEMENT TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY… AND A BLK COP IS THE WORST PIECE OF SHYT CAUSE HE’S ACTUALLY DOIN THE WHITE MANS JOB BY PUTTIN BLACK FATHER IN JAIL… AT THIS MOMENT IF I WAS TO SEE SOMEONE SHOOT A POLICE IN THE FACE, I WOULD WATCH THAT COP BLEED TO DEATH B4 I CALL 911.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    i dont support snitching….

    i dont like police…

    BUT ALSO

    niggas gotta stop f**king up they own hoods…….

    seeds cant grow in a garden full of weeds ya digg???

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/gren1shaw2/ gren1shaw2

    It has come to the point that we don’t need to snitch, if they want a conviction they will beat it out of you and/or plant some kind of evidence on you. How many innocent people are serving time for a crime that they didn’t commit./black planet does’nt give my wife articles on her cricket phone,it only gives comment and things like that. Her username is kick42back I hope there is some way to help her.that is why she has commented on my phone.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/PRINCE_DEJOUR/ PRINCE_DEJOUR

    Black people who support the don’t snitch creed to me are absolute insane. Let the criminals move in your neighborhood where you, your family and friends live. Also people who make blanket statements I hate cops sound like they need some serious help. All cops are not bad and there are more black people killing each other then cops. I wonder do you people dial 911 when crime breaks out in your neighborhood? Its no wonder why we committing genocide here in American and in Africa.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/yungmoolahbaby69/ yungmoolahbaby69

    Ignorance is no longer innocence, first of all guilt by association is in effect. Now if you live in the hood, and you hear shooting and somebody dies, why are we expected to not say anything? People Do you watch Crime 360? Everybody snitching now!! And I don’t blame them, It’s 2009, if you been selling dope for 5 years and still doing it,get a job, a side-hustle or something damn. Eventually we grow up and expand our horizons to which smoking weed and drinking everyday is not included. We gotta do better folks.. come on

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kiyaman/ Kiyaman

    How powerful is words?
    It’s written somewhere “your word is your bond”.

    Their are way to many different catogories of Snitching.

    1) My daughter came and told me her brother was under the bed playing with matches.
    2) A co-worker told the boss about another co-worker stealing supplies.
    3) A slave told the Master about another slave that stole a blanket for the winter.
    4) A woman told the police that her husband is constanly beating her up.
    5) Two people got into a light fender-bender car accident and both gave a police report.
    6) A crack-head couple park the car two blocks from a ATM machine with the purpose to rob any user at the ATM machine. He gets caught and give the Police the license and color of the get away car his wife is waiting for him in.
    7) A husband needs some kind of release or forgiveness and admitts to his wife that he had cheated on her six years ago.

    8) The D.A. offers u a deal of 5 years if u snitch on your co-defendent and say he committed the murder and gets 25 to life. what would u do?

    9) If u witness a man shoot another man for raping his daughter will u snitch?

    10) If all the crack-dealers were run out of your Town except for one, would u snitch on that last crack-dealer when u see your Mama in line to buy crack from the dealer?

    Should Little Kim had snitched? Hell No! to many $names$ would have came up and given to an “unjust” law and media.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    I’ll take that survey @ Kiyaman… Now mind u this is what I call the “Real Nigga” response ratio. And to my White People dont be alarmed.

    1. I would take a belt and light a fire to dat @$$

    2. (2 answers) First either that person don’t like u and they a A-hole or Two, they are trying to get a promotion and they a A-hole… my conclusion, in either case this Snitch is a A-hole.

    3. House Nigga… F-U and Master

    4. Who started it?

    5. May the best insurance provider win

    6. both of ‘em need to get locked up, “unofficial rehab”

    7. Honesty is the best policy

    8. Man I wasn’t there… take dat $h!t to trial

    9. Nope

    10. Its her money and she grown

    11. Notorious K. I. M. nuff said

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/tednite1/ tednite1

    You can’t walk various places; you have to watch where you park your car; you have to worry about whether or not you can leave your home, even with double and triple locks; your mother, sisters, wife, daughters can be verbally, if not physically assaulted and you let this occur because you don’t want to appear to be helping the pOlice against your black brothers? If they were fighting for the rights to keep your schools better, or to have the trash in your neighborhood picked up, or to stop illegal red-lining that still occurs I could understand it.

    In the past blacks went to jail fighting for voters rights and to fight discrimination. They went willingly to secure “rights” that were guaranteed in the Constitution and paid for by the blood of our ancestors! It is not a right to sell drugs! It is not a right to shoot someone because you are angry or because they “disrespected” you. It is not a “right” to break into a home that is not yours because you can! The people that are doing these things are NOT revolutionaries. They are Not supporting the community! They are CRIMINALS! Because they didn’t break into your place or shoot someone you know does not make it all right!

    If these are the people that you are protecting from the law, then learn this: They have no respect for you! They are only respecting themselves and the other animals like them. If you have a rapid dog in your neighborhood that is danger to your children, you have it put down. The same with these thugs! If you go to school or work a steady job or read anything other than the comics, they have little respect for you. So let’s start having No respect for them.

    Rmember: If you don’t snitch, you are their B***H.

    Pass it on.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/calimami1975/ calimami1975

    Ok so I posted about a week ago…So after this young man has been beaten to death in his own community by gang members…Do you really feel that if you KNEW or KNOW who did it, its the right thing not to help by telling??? I can’t stand that this young innocent life was taken, yet we have people HERE who are defending the criminals, by saying “it ain’t my business I ain’t got sh*t to do with that” mantality. YOU SHOULD ALL RE-THINK if you are PRO “STOP SNITHCING!”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/trisha_369/ trisha_369

    I SAID,HELL YEAH-TELL ON THEY A*S. JUST LOOK AT WHAT THEY DID TO THIS YOUNG BOY WHO HAD NOTHING TO DO,WITH ANYTHING THAT WAS GOING ON. IN CASES LIKE THIS TELL & IF YOU KNOW OF ANYONE WHO IS PLANNING ON DOING ANY TYPE OF KILLINGS,BEATEN,OR ANY OTHER CRIME TELL BECAUSE IN THE END ITS PEOPLE LIKE THE ALBERT BOY WHO END UP DEAD. QUESTION-TO THOSE OF YOU WHO THINK ITS WRONG IN HELP’ING STOP CRIME IN THERE AREA? WHAT IF THIS WAS YOUR CHILD,BROTHER,COUSIN,BEST FRIEND, & ETC) WOULD YOU STILL THINK IT WAS OK NOT TO TELL WHO KILLED THEM? I HOPE NOT…NOONE SHOULD HAVE TO DIE OVER SOMEONE ELSES DUMBNESS. HELP CLEAN UP YOUR AREA FOR A BETTER LIFE & BREATHE FOR ONCE,WITHOUT THE FEAR OF SEEING OR HEARING SOMEONE GET’ING KILLED. IF YOU DONT START NOW BY THE YEAR 2020-IT WANT BE ANY BLACKS LEFT BECAUSE THEY ARE KILLING THEMSELF BY THE DOZEN. THATS JUST IN MY OPINION

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    Common sense vs stupid sense… We are outnumbered by stupidity so it seems the message never gets across.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    Being Pro “STOP SNITCHIN” don’t overbear the facts of this matter, so first u need to apply the stop snitchin concepts to a moral basis. SMH

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MSLANDRY/ MSLANDRY

    PUT YOURSELF IN THAT FAMILIES POSITION YOU WOULD WANT JUSTICE!OR ARE JUST AS TWISTED AS THE REST? COULD YOU REALLY LIVE WITH THAT? KNOWING AND NOT TELLING

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DaintyJen/ DaintyJen

    I guess the people who showed the video tape of the Chicago teen being beaten are snitches as well?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/calimami1975/ calimami1975

    @danityJen, Im not sure but I thought the reporter said they only got the video because the Survailence Camera caught the guys face & identified him recording it and the police then confiscated it, so he didn’t willingly give up that video, but PLEASE if Im wrong I stand corrected.

    Either way, if anyone feels that no one should have “snitched” on them Gang memebers…then only GOD can judge you, but I will look at you as a weak minded person, & i know my opinion to you may be jack squat but its my everything.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DaintyJen/ DaintyJen

    it was a video caught by a camera phone..the person couldve said that they deleted it if thats how the story is….but they didnt they showed the police and yet there are still students who have given information on the people involved in this incident… so back to my question, is it still wrong to so called “snitch”?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/brainiac-dumdum/ brainiac-dumdum

    With so many false convictions and forced admissions in the name of clearing a crime, you really can’t blame people to wary of tipping off cops. Cases like the Central Park rape and the mess down in Dallas makes people hesitate involving someone in the criminal “justice” system

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/buickjazz/ buickjazz

    It’s not “snitching” It’s called standing up for and protecting your community. How many of you live in dangerous neighborhoods where you walk down your block and pass hoodlums standing on the corner who you know for a fact are guilty of some serious crime? Maybe even against someone you know. I’ve never been in a situation where I knew any first-hand criminal info about someone but if I did and it resulted in justice being served on a miscreant who’d committed a serious crime, I’d have no problem informing the police. Black-on-black crime comes from thugs who prey on their own because they know black people are too scared to talk or don’t respect the police. Those thugs rarely attack whites because they know whites don’t play that. They’ll tell the police in a heartbeat and the cops will be there in seconds. We need to show we’re not scared either. You have to see a thug as a thug and not as a black person who you feel you have some kinship with.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Aleus6/ Aleus6

    Okay you all want to talk about snitching let me tell ya about snitching and being a peron that had to go to jail and deal with probabtion for someone snitching as well as lying in the confession, i guy who i called a cousin since the age of 7 we both got caught in a house raid, they never found nothing on me but the “keys” to the house and about $200 bucks, we all went to jail the one i called “cousin” im telling him to straightn this out so i can get outta here i have nothing to do with this, he kept saying, “umma handle it dont worry”, well little did know, he done jus that, the detectives interrogate me leave and come back asking who is this and who is that, people that wasnt not even at the house, so im like where are they getting these names from these cops not wizards by no means at all, so i stop talking period cause it was nothing to talk about anymore and i felt like someone is running they mouth,so with that, i saw signed statments of him saying i was the “man” of the house, the cocaine he was cutting up the table was mine, cuz when the cops raided the house he cleared the table of crack he was cutting up and im laying in a pool of it cuz they said !”GET DOWN!” WITH GUNS BLAZED AT MY HEAD,plus the “keys” remember i brought that up earlier, they thought that i control the house, so they ran with with his lies, confessions about others i knew, and blatenly snitched, I live in Milwaukee and i dont know any serial killers but if i knew Jeffrey Dahmer was cutting up bodies in my apt complex, oh well call me a “Snitch” all you want im trying to save lives, not decapitate em’ true story’ Aleus

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sambear/ Sambear

    Where is your honor? How is it ‘snitching’ when a whole gang of boys is involved in stomping, beating, and kicking a little boy to death? According to the news story, he was, as we always say, in the wrong place at the wrong time–not involved in the original fight at all. Do you call it honorable when someone who knows what went down keeps his mouth shut? Doesn’t that young man, and his grieving family, deserve justice for what those young thugs did to him? All you people who scream “No Snitching!!” would be begging for snitches if this were your son, cousin, nephew lying in the street. This attitude of not being a snitch is the depth of ugly, and you know that God don’t like ugly. Besides, why would you protect people like this? If you do, then should you be the next victim of violence, expect no one to help find out who did it to you.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mandigo_yung/ mandigo_yung

    The world is coming to and end and everyone for themselves. The incident in Chicago was very sad and it shouldn’t of happen. There’s plenty of ignorant niggas in jail right now that are there because they refuse to give up there man. But while they are locked up, their man is free still running the streets and doing what it is he does. Your man only one time has gone by your house to see about your mama, girlfriend and your kids. Your man didn’t take up your resposibities for your family not that you are doing his time. Snitching is only good when you are doing a service to your family and community, in the event that you and your friend rob someone and they arrest you, that decision can go either way. But if you are facing time for a crime you didn’t commit, or having something on you that wasn’t yours, why do the next man time and let him go home and sleep in his bed. That crap Camron was talking about is pure garbage, a nigga like him can say that because he probably lives in a gated community in the suburbs. But if your staying next to a crack house that sells 24/7 not to mention allways being shot up, you can be afraid and take the chance a stray bullet want hit you are you can do the right thing and call the police. In that event call tell the police but obviously don’t do it from your house phone or even mention your name.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kiyaman/ Kiyaman

    The Chicago teen situation was a very-very sad day for all Black-People in America b/c that was our children. And the truth be said, I really wish I did not see that tape of school kids jumping all on one child.
    It showed how angry our Black-children have become at an early age.

    What do we do with all these angry Black-Children?
    should we give them to master to repremand them?

    I was born, raised, and lived in Brooklyn, Bronx, and Harlem New York all my life and still I dont identify with what “Buickjazz” wrote:

    It’s not “snitching” It’s called standing up for and protecting your community. How many of you live in dangerous neighborhoods where you walk down your block and pass hoodlums standing on the corner who you know for a fact are guilty of some serious crime? Maybe even against someone you know. I’ve never been in a situation where I knew any first-hand criminal info about someone but if I did and it resulted in justice being served on a miscreant who’d committed a serious crime, I’d have no problem informing the police. Black-on-black crime comes from thugs who prey on their own because they know black people are too scared to talk or don’t respect the police. Those thugs rarely attack whites because they know whites don’t play that. They’ll tell the police in a heartbeat and the cops will be there in seconds. We need to show we’re not scared either. You have to see a thug as a thug and not as a black person who you feel you have some kinship with.
    —————————————-

    People attack the closes people next to them, whether its an Italian neighborhood, Irish neighborhood, or a Polish neighborhood, they argue, fight, and rob amongst themselves.
    These are the same people who tell one another lines like “u guys are acting like N****rs” to break-up a fight or something.
    Calling my Black sons hoodlums and thugs is only going to make them respond to u as a roughneck, but to your sister as a lover…

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ProBlackfist/ ProBlackfist

    How can a black person be a responsible so-called citizen when black’s
    have been brainwashed,mentally oppressed and driven insane mainly from a
    slave type psychosis.
    Folks don’t even know we are living and bearing witness to a new type of
    21st century slavery.
    So people are all confused with all this snitching BS.
    The police know’s this,but as long they get help in locking up other black’s
    they don’t care.
    If black america wake up and get over mental slavery.
    Then things would change overnight in the community.

    Go read some books by Amos Wilson or Ra Nefer Amen and leave all
    that coonery,mistrel show rap alone.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jeffrey1975/ Jeffrey1975

    Lambs are stupid. Stop snitching refers to people in the game. The folks that are caught up for the most part in illegal activity. Of course some crimes, I feel blacks should not report but for most violent, sick, perverted crimes, hell yea. And if the culprit or suspect is white, hell yea you snitch. Run niga run and tellit!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/panamaniak/ panamaniak

    It’s simple don’t do crime. But let me guess…it’s “the struggle” and “the man” and all this other bulls**t. Lol! Because you “ain’t gone work such and such odd dollars at McDonalds’s,BK,Arbys,etc”. Lol! When you out in the streets slangin’ and bangin’ you’re PROUD to be called “savage” and “thug” and a “real nigga”. But when the party comes to an end (and trust me at 37 years old I have enough friends upstate who will NEVER see the free world again)all of a sudden you’re a *heh-heh* “political prisoner” and Rev Al and Pac’s mom and all type of dudes with “Afrikan” (spelled with a “k”)names are marching for you. ‘Cause now you’re “down” for the ’cause. Yaaaawwwnnn…zzzzz. Right. Spare me.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/RoKsTarPrinCesS/ RoKsTarPrinCesS

    how about u stop doing dumb s**t and u want get “snitched” on -.- dumb fukk.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/I_Like_Thugz/ I_Like_Thugz

    ignorance kills all. smh.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/johnnyquick/ johnnyquick

    Once again, heres some of that stupid thinking in action. This is the reason why our neighborhoods are so bad – if somebody is breaking the law in a way that is harmful to your community you cooperate with the law enforcement that is trying to bring them to justice and stop it from happening. This is what white people do. This is why people dont mess around in thier neighborhoods.

    Again i ask, stop being willfully ignorant black people.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/melmel228/ melmel228

    I never stopped! You do the Crime! YOu WILL DO THE TIME! Everybody knows me know I dont play that. Do wrong if u want to & you jeaopardizing people life, I WILL POINT YOU OUT! I FEAR NO ONE or Nothing BUT GOD! We need to stop this close minded thinking. I dont care if it was blood or cuz. Life is not that hard! Well it is when you trying to make it without GOD. Period!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/melmel228/ melmel228

    stealing robing, raping, killing all that crazy crap. Don’t ask me because Im telling PERIOD! I was the same way in elementary- NO FEAR! Yes He di it, yes she did it & I’ll make em apologize for doing it. Will the real PEOPLE PLEASE STAND UP!! This slave mind set has to break free. !!! Now!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/melmel228/ melmel228

    stealing robing, raping, killing all that crazy crap. Don’t ask me because Im telling PERIOD! I was the same way in elementary- NO FEAR! Yes He di it, yes she did it & I’ll make em apologize for doing it. Will the real PEOPLE PLEASE STAND UP!! This slave mind set has to break free. !!! Now!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/GETFUNKY1/ GETFUNKY1

    Who said black people wasn’t snitching?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Fletcher-D/ Fletcher-D

    Black ppl are gonna die out..just a matter of time! smh

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