"Idol" or Drowning Daughter? Mom Chose "Idol"

Sirius BrownA 25-year-old mother of five accidentally left two of her young children in the bathtub last week in Indianapolis, leaving one to nearly drown -- because she was too busy watching "American Idol." Don't worry -- like Luke Menard, the kid survived.

According to a police report, Sheila Brooks placed her youngest kids (Sirius, 3, and Sereena, 1) in the tub and then went to another room to fetch some clothes. After watching "Idol" for a few minutes with two of her other children -- Daesheana, 7, and Dasianaye, 5 -- Brooks suddenly remembered about the other two kids and sent Daesheana to get them out.

The police say that when Daesheana got to the bathtub, she found Sirius submerged underwater and not moving. She called for her mom, who then performed CPR and called 911.

As of now no charges have been filed and Sirius is still in the hospital, according to WIBC radio.

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151. Enough already! Every race has had their turn at playing the Indian in the Cowboys and Indian war. What does that have to do with this story? One question, why is it when one black person does something like name their kids despicable names, it is assumed that all blacks name their kids despicable names? Come on, its 2008, haven't we all suffered enough from sterotypes and racist jargon?

Posted at 11:18AM on Mar 7th 2008 by Who-Knew

152. 139. Uppity Negro - At one point in time almost every nationality has been enslaved, beaten, raped, murdered. The difference is they don't cry about and expect a free ride. The Jewish community doesn't expect handouts, There is no Jewish Entertainment Television etc. These people were put into concentration camps and brutally murdered by the thousands. This piece of history was more recent then slavery.

Please, show me someone today who was a slave? My Irish ancestors came over here on a boat too. They were driven out of their land and forced to be packed into boats where many died on the trip over. Upon getting here they were treated horribly. Tens of thousands of Irish were murdered, raped, beaten and sold as slaves during 1600's in the English Slave trade by Queen Elizabeth I and Oliver Cromwell. Yet they prevailed and live normal lives today.

Posted at 7:58PM on Mar 6th 2008 by Kaye
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Kaye, I completely agree with you. I couldn't have said it better myself.
P.S. Bet we won't hear from that one either

Posted at 4:29PM on Mar 7th 2008 by Give Me a Break

153. Please,

Jews won't let us forget about their history, we're constantly reminded of it... But on the other hand Black people are expected to get over slavery.. Please! Every other race has been compensated for what's been done to them, why when it comes to Black people we're the ones accused of expecting hand-outs. We've had everything taken from us, our culture was stolen and raped but that's okay though... And then Whites want to complain that, Blacks have certain channels on tv catered to them... What's the big deal, do I see any black shows on any of the major four big networks no. They're too scared to take a chance on having any predominately Black shows on their networks, too scared to promote more movies featuring predominately Black casts in movies... It's something about the unity of Black people, that Whites fear... Whites have always had the world in their hands, still do, and they still bitch about any and everything. But despite all that they've put Black people through, we're still here and still going strong...

Posted at 5:24PM on Mar 7th 2008 by SyrenGirl

154. THIS IS ABOUT THE KIDS YOU THAT ARE TALKING ABOUT THEM R WORTHLESS JUST LIKE THEIR MOTHER

Posted at 6:24PM on Mar 7th 2008 by MSPAT

155. 1-To qualify for ANY Government assistance you must have had at least 1 year of college and HAVE A JOB-
2-If you have any additional kids while on Gov't assistance and you are un-married-you FORFEIT all assistance 3 ever!
3-You must show your kids' report cards and you must show a note from the teacher saying you attended parent conferences for your kids
4-If ANY of your kids are convicted of having a weapon at school, disorderly conduct or dis-respect, you LOSE all gov't aid
5-You must have a DNA test that proves who the father is BEFORE you can receive child support
6-All young men whose moms receive gov't aid must go through a Work-Study program beginning at age 16-They must learn a MARKETABLE SKILL-then receive a 2 year certification at graduation which allows them to work in that area if they don't go to college
**This is and excerpt of some of MY ideas of how we can CHANGE-Repsonsibility is taught. IT's not INNATE-

Posted at 8:14PM on Mar 7th 2008 by What the next President should do

156. Could someone tell if Jewish people have a month dedicated to them. Could someone tell me if they have a special holiday for Rabbi Schwartz? Is there a Jewish quota or Jewish affirmative action. Does anybody know if there are any jewish people who were in concentration camps who are alive today, cause I would like to ask them what they feed a need to complain just because they were beaten, tortured, raped, gassed and had simple medical experiments done on them like trying to turn their brown eyes blue by injecting acid then injecting blue dye. Jeez, blue eyes are so much better, they should have been grateful, huh.. You are so right SYREN GIRL ,they sure do complain alot. Oh oh, before I forget them indians sure bellyache a lot too, how come. All we did was herd em up and give them land that we weren't using. Hell they should be kissing our behinds for putting on something I think they call a reservation. Yep SYREN girl, your people definitely got screwed, I'm with ya sister. Not like em jews or redskins - they had it much better than yo folk.

Posted at 1:23PM on Mar 8th 2008 by EPI

157. I think they use phonetic spelling because it makes it easier for their kind to read the names. Why do most of their names have "La" in front of them?

Posted at 9:00AM on Mar 9th 2008 by LALALA

158. All I can say is what do you EXPECT from a spook????????

Posted at 1:11PM on Mar 10th 2008 by Troy

159. very interesting nice one

Posted at 7:16AM on Apr 2nd 2008 by Hulk

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