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blaquebaby
Comment: U got to be kiddin me what is wrong with the people!!!! Guess he wanted to take the easy way out
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nightshift
Comment: Good !!!! If his kids can't live right, neither should he. fvcker needs to stay in jail....I bet he got a girlfriend though. He needs to be bent over in jail.
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McNasty
Comment: He came from a well to do family, he performed with Levert, I'm sure Gerald broke him off in the after life - why, pray tell, is this boy behind in child support?! This is straight up triflin' cause if he is broke, his daddy could have helped him out before it got to this point. He should do some time and then be made to get his behind on a j-o-b - work 9-5 like the rest of us if he doesn't plan to go on performing.
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Selah
Comment: I understand that he should be punished he deserves to pay DEARLY. But if he goes to jail, how does that help his children? Putting him away makes it impossible to support his children, so is it about helping his children or punishing Sean?
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STONEY605
Comment: Good for him who do he think he is not to pay. Sh#t if i can pay mine he can pay his.
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gingerg
Comment: Eddie is going to bail him out, but he needs to get a job singing on cruises or something - anything to pay that child support. He doesn't look like he's missed any meals.
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Penelope
Comment: Triflin Bastard!
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Penelope
Comment: I hit 'enter' too fast...Triflin Bastard...you laid down and got, now stand your %*$ up and take care of them. Triflin Bastard. And that's how I really feel.
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arkansasgirl
Comment: You too old for this, Sean. I wonder if he's in his kids life. I'm tired of hearing about black men not taking care of their kids. And we need to stop congratulating the ones who are taking care of their seeds. That's what they suppose to do!
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DCGG
Comment: Trifaling azz fuvk...burn his mofo azz at the stake!!
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cookyd
Comment: Jail is where he should be.No one held a gun to his head and made him help to create a life not once but three times.
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fanteeking
Comment: It's interesting how life is so CIRCULAR. After the Gerald Levert funeral, Eddie, his Daddy, lamented the fact that he was always on the road and didn't have much time for his kids. You can even hear the regret and pain in his voice when he sings that father to Son song on their CD. Now, the next generation has his brother abandoning his kids so I guess in a few years, they'll be making a CD together full of remorse. When will it stop?
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CrazzeeGyrl
Comment: Eddie might not be able to help. He's got a brood he's probably still paying for. I remember hearing him announce their names at Gerald's funeral. Sean should've been taking notes from Bobby Brown's child support dilemma.
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Train
Comment: He made his bed and now he has to lie in it. Sean is a grown azz man and not taking care of his "children support" says a lot about his character. Eddie is under now obligation to bail him out. Sean, don't drop the soap dude.
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Southernbelle
Comment: Well with his brother gone there's no hope in reviving the group Levert so he may have fallen on hard times. If that's the case, he's gonna need a new gig. Sean, I heard Von's Supermarket in San Diego is hiring. You're gonna have to stack a lot of cans to make up 80 grand.
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golfebj
Comment: Does sending him to jail absolve the debt?
No, then send him to work and not to jail.
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mandinka_99
Comment: I can empathize with any sista posting that Sean should be put under the jail. As a brotha who is still paying child support on the last 2 of my 4 kids, I understand some things about this situation. Let's do some quick math. If Sean owes $80K on 3 kids, that amounts to roughly $27K worth of support on each kid. What is not being told in this story is "HOW LONG" Sean has been delinquent and "HOW MUCH" he is required to pay monthly on each child. What is also not being mentioned is if all three kids have the same mama. I lost my job and for a year and a half I got by just doing temp work getting paid weekly. I could barely keep my own butt from sleeping on the sidewalk, much less pay child support. I just recently got a permanent job and resumed my child support but I'm $5K in the hole. That $5K feels like $50K at my salary level. Even if you assume that Sean has been delinquent for just one year, that amounts to over $2k a month for each child. Sean ain't exactly on the A-List of R&B performers, so I doubt he is pulling in a lot of income. He certainly ain't makin' what he was makin' when the group Levert was in their heyday over 15 years ago. While I think a brotha SHOULD do right by his kids, I know too well just how easy hard times can put a brotha behind on his child support.
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mandinka_99
Comment: arkansasgirl re: "...we need to stop congratulating the ones who are taking care of their seeds. That's what they suppose to do!" Based on that logic we also need to stop congratulating and patting single moms on the back just because they are doing what they do alone. After all they are simply doing "... taking care of their seeds. That's what they suppose to do!"
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Luke_Cage
Comment: mandinka_99, good looking out on explaining the breakdown on the child support. I've heard how hard it can be to make the payments EVEN when a man is working a 9-5 job and to pay the court assigned payments per month. It's got to be even rougher when out of work or working below what you're used to making. But the second comment to arkansasgirl about single moms being patted on the back for doing what they are supposed to be doing, etc., that was a bit harsh bro. Can you explain that?
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VeeCee
Comment: He gets no sympathy from me. No, Eddie should not have to shell out any $$$ for his SON's children; they are SEAN's responsibility. That fool sounds like my child's sperm donor trying that stupid shyt - as far as I'm concerned they can both stay in jail and screw each other; at least that way they cannot procreate....
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McNasty
Comment: He deserves jail because thats the penalty for not paying child support - he hasn't been paying for whatever length of time aand even the threat of it might get that hitch out of his go along! Only because it's the law but his daddy will bail him out this time. Besides that here in MD when they send your butt to jail - you work during the day and go to the free hotel every evening until your child support is in hella better shape than what it was!
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gingerg
Comment: VeeCee, you wrong for that last part!
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Train
Comment: >golfebj, if Sean was working in the first dayum place then he would've been paying his "children support". I have no sympathy for this azzhole deadbeat sperm donor. A father would be there for his children but Sean is a donor.
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queeniebunz
Comment: >Selah- I agree with you. If you put a man in jail, he has that on his record. That will make it even more difficult to find a job because he has to explain that gap in his employment. That means even less of a chance of paying. AND it means that I am paying his living expenses through my tax dollars and that bothers ME! I shouldn't have to pay more because some knucklehead Sean Appleseed drops his seed and keeps on moving.. Negro please!!!!
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queeniebunz
Comment: On another note, when I saw his picture, he looks like he's laughing that sneaky, shady laugh like James Evans from Good Times, that his wife seemed to hate - "heh, heh, heh"...
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Mas90
Comment: co-sign @ TRAIN... golfebj... despite he wasn't having regular singing gigs or a record deal he should've been working somehow. He could do anything but if he wanted to stay in music then he should became a background session singer, songwriter, studio floor sweeper, microphone dust collector, anything but another BLACK male behind bars.
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Selah
Comment: Thanx Queeniebunz, I'm thinking they'd force him to liquidate his %*$ets and pay...now Big Bert is gonna liquify his Azzets behind bars.
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gingerg
Comment: Mas, you wrong for those last two suggestions.
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gingerg
Comment: I can speak on this issue of men who don't pay child support because I've lived through it. My father abused my mother for many years before he was involved in an accident (while driving drunk) and skipped town. He left his responsibilities behind as well and would tell my mother if she wanted child support, she should have stayed with him.
My mom worked two jobs to take care of my sister and I. One during the day and another at night. We were often shifted around to various babysitters. Somewhere along the way, she became a workaholic and that continues to this day. She works until she can barely stand up even though it is not necessary.
My father provided no assistance with food, clothing, shelter or college expenses, but he fully expected us to take care of him when he got older. After all, it was our responsibility as his children. When he died, my sister and I wound up taking care of part of the funeral expenses and purchasing the headstone. Family members were talking that "he's still your daddy" stuff.
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queeniebunz
Comment: >gingerg- I feel for you. I will say this - at the end of the day, at least you know that you followed the commandment "honor thy father and thy mother". I know that may sound ridiculous but when it comes down to it, sometimes we do things for ourselves. My ma has a sense of entitlement when it comes to asking for money. My older brother gets ticked off. My baby bro and I just give it to her and remember the commandment. I'm doing what I'm supposed to do regardless of my ma's character. In her defense though, she sacrificed a lot for us but when she told us she needed money for her bills and turned around and bought a new computer w/the money, it stung a little. She should've just said she wanted a new computer...You are a good person for doing what you did regarding your father's expenses. At least you can take solace in that. Others would've said whateva and kept going. Kudos...
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Mas90
Comment: Gingerg... "he's still yo daddy"... I hate when people try to pull the guilt trip shyt on you but they weren't the ones who were treated badly. I understand where you're coming from. I had father who didn't have father skills.
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Gurlfrand
Comment: lol - funny how everyone here seems so surprised.
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Train
Comment: You should've spit on that m.f.'s grave. I was lucky to be raised by my Pop, a real black man who is still my best friend to this day. A few of my uncles on the other hand..well that's another story altogether.
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gingerg
Comment: I appreciate that, Queenie. Mas, my dad's biological father's skills were mostly limited to spreading his seed around the Mississippi countryside. When my grandmother became pregnant with my father, he married someone else after telling grandma that she was "spoiled." My grandmother soon married a mean spirited bully who resented my father and beat him often. Being pregnant at 21 and unmarried was not fashionable back then.
My grandmother was the classic silent partner who sat idly by so long as she had food and a roof over her head. When she got pregnant by her new husband, she treated her "legitimate" son well and shunned my father. Her mother took him in after he was burned with cigarettes. He turned to alcohol in his teens and drank until the day he died a few years ago. That explains some of his behavior, but it doesn't excuse it.
Interestingly, my father's stepbrother is an alcoholic with numerous health problems. He just took my elderly grandmother in so he could have access to her SSI check. He also sold her house and pocketed the proceeds.
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DOne
Comment: I agree with mandinka on this. It doesn't say how long he's been behind. Personality I think the entire system is out of wack. How easy is to to have child support payments lowered when income changes? My ex and I don't have any type of formal child support agreement; we just do what needs to be done and take care of business. That's how I was taught.
>gingerg, sounds like you father's side of the family is just messed up.
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Mas90
Comment: Gingerg... I'm sorry to hear that.
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Name:
gingerg
Comment: DOone, the half hasn't been told. Don't even get me started on my mom's side of the family. God is still in the blessing business, though. I'm sane. I do have a few vices, but they are hidden. LOL!!
I could be a street woman, alcoholic, drunk or worse, but I'm not. There's not a day that goes by that I don't give thanks because I know that but for the grace of God, there go I. I value things like peace and harmony at home because I grew up around chaos and confusion.
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gingerg
Comment: I hear you train. These uncles can be something else, too. I have one who prides himself on sleeping with women AND their daughters. Just plain disgusting. He's one of those who are quick with sexual innuendos during family reunions and gatherings.
He called my office last year to ask me a question about my grandmother's care. I answered the phone the way I always do and the first words out of his mouth were how sexy my voice is.
He's 65 and looks every day of 80.
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Name:
gingerg
Comment: You all have got me on a roll now. Speaking of family reunions, I attended one in Mississippi several years ago. Someone who claims to be my "cousin" sits down beside me on the porch and starts talking. Before long he asks me "why don't we go round the back of the house?" He has about eight teeth and six of them are rotten. I'm like WTH?!!
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Name:
TesticAl
Comment: LMMFAO at having 8 teeth and 6 of them being rotten! Oh shyt! LMMFAO!
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amethyst
Comment: Selah - The mother(s) have been taking care of the children all this time without Sean, he ain't gonna be missed for 2 more years. And won't he still have that $80,000 debt, plus the child support that accumulates while he is in stripes? /arkansas - Chris Rock said years ago "You don't get credit for doing what you're supposed to do."
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amethyst
Comment: mandinka_99 - You fell on hard times by losing a job and seeking others. Sean probably ain't had a job in all these years. He's part of the "I'm a washed-up celebrity who didn't invest my money, but I'm too good to get a j-o-b like regular folks" club Other members include Bobby, and Jackson and DeBarge brothers. /veecee - Hilarious! /queenie - You have a good point about the criminal record and our tax dollars taking care of him while in jail. However, Sean ain't the average brother out here beating the pavement to get a job, so a criminal record won't hurt him (Martha Stewart is doing great).
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Name:
amethyst
Comment: DOne - Much respect to you and your child's mother for being reasonable, responsible co-parents who don't need the legal system to dictate how to care for your child. The reason most people can't be amicable like you two is they don't have mutual respect or trust for one another. Either the relationship was jacked up before the child was born, there is pain and resentment, or someone is a nut case who can't move on and accept that things didn't work out. The child becomes a pawn in a game to hurt the other person. When two sane people who love, respect and actually have gotten to know one another have a child and it doesn't work out, they can put the child's needs at the forefront and keep it moving in their individual lives.
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Name:
blackdragon
Comment: What a horrible man. It's unfortunate there are so many brothers like him.
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Name:
OneDropMelanin
Comment: I Got Your Back was on the #1 Best Seller List. If we all purchase a copy the Leverts should be able to handle the arrearages of Sean's child support payments at least. C'mon help a brother out y'all. Then may be they can put him on a monthly payment plan he can afford.
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