Tammy Kemp (c. 1962- ), also known as Tammy the Mammy, was that Black judge in Dallas, Texas who hugged a White killer cop, Amber Guyger, after she was sentenced to ten years for murder.
Amber Guyger in 2018 shot Botham Jean, an unarmed Black man, in his own apartment while he was eating ice cream. She did nothing to try to save his life as he lay there bleeding.
On October 2nd 2019, after sentencing:
Brandt Jean, Botham’s 18-year-old younger brother, took the stand and said to Guyger:
“I can speak for myself, I forgive you and I know that if you go to God and ask him, he will forgive you. […] I love you just like anyone else and I’m not going to say I hope you rot and die just like my brother did. […] I personally want the best for you. […] I don’t even want you to go to jail. […] I think giving your life to Christ would be the best thing that Botham would want you to do.”
Then he asked if he could hug her. Judge Kemp, wiping tears from her eyes, said yes.
After the trial was over, as Kemp tells it, she talked to the Jean family and hugged each one. Then:
“I was heading back to my bench and I just saw Ms. Guyger and she just looked … I don’t know … she looked really hurt. So I just said to her, ‘Mr. Jean has forgiven you, forgive yourself so you can live a purposeful life.'”
A Bible: Guyger asked her if her life could still have purpose, if God could forgive her. Kemp said yes to both questions. Then Guyger said she did not have a Bible and did not know where to begin. So Kemp went back to her chambers and got her own Bible and came back to the courtroom and gave it to her to keep. They read John 3:16 together:
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
Kemp then had Guyger read the verse again with her name in it.
Kemp told her:
“You just need a tiny mustard seed of faith. You start with this.”
Then hugs:
“… she asked me if I would give her a hug. And I was startled but when she asked a second time, I said, ‘Yes of course I’ll give you a hug’, because I thought it was my Christian duty to extend compassion and love to her. And I want her to come out of prison a better person than she was going in.”
That night the Dallas Police Department tweeted:
“Botham Jean’s brother’s request to hug Amber Guyger and Judge Kemp’s gift of her bible to Amber represent a spirit of forgiveness, faith and trust. In this same spirit, we want to move forward in a positive direction with the community. @ChiefHallDPD“
Kemp was re-elected state district judge last year backed by the White police union.
– Abagond, 2019.
Sources: mainly PressFrom (image), ABC News (YouTube video of Brandt Jean), Black America Web (Kemp’s account), NIV Bible (the translation used by Kemp’s Bible), @DallasPD on Twitter.
See also:
- Black men on Texas death row:
- Naim Rasool Muhammed – put there in 2013 by Kemp herself as a Dallas County prosecutor a year before she was elected judge
- Gary Graham
- killer cops
- Black lives lost:
- Botham Jean
- Joshua Brown – a key witness who was murdered two days later
- things Kemp has been called:
- forgiveness
- Negro forgiveness
- forgiveness according to the gospel according to Matthew
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Tammy the Mammy?? Perhaps people are defining their hate, beastfullness and unpeacefulness in their beings..
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“Tammy the Mammy” – sounds inappropriate, but coupled with the above photo it seems to fit.
“Kemp was re-elected state district judge last year backed by the White police union.” – NOT a good fit.
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“Tammy the Mammy” is an insult. Every black person in America has done or failed to do something in response to whiteness, that they may later regret or want to rethink a reaction. I am tired of the tendency among many black people who are quick to condemn mistakes or missteps by other black people, as if perfection is required. They prefer to judge other blacks far more harshly than white racists. Those who label other blacks coons for disagreeing on relatively minor issues are likely self-hating and think they’re more woke when in fact their narrow-minded frames of reference suggest group think beyond reason. So many refuse to show compassion and focus on healing themselves if they can get an ego boost from calling another black person a fool on the basis of a single incident. It is not helping the cause of social justice if blacks cannot make room for forgiving each other.
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Triggered! Elicits visceral reaction.
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No, Tammy is most definitely a Mammy.
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Cherry Boy – And what are you if “Tammy is most definitely a Mammy.”
Makes one wonder what people would call you if they could see your every interaction. Are you able to say you have never reacted in a moment and thought differently about it later?
And, let’s not forget that Black Mammys did the best they could throughout history. Stop judging black women so harshly based on one incident, if you don’t know their patterns of behaviors.
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Fannie LeFlore:
“Stop judging black women so harshly based on one incident, if you don’t know their patterns of behaviors.”
This is the problem with black women like you. You look at yourself as a woman first and black second. He wasn’t judging her as a “black woman” he was judging her as a “black person”.
You’re coming off as a black feminist, which many champion being a woman over being black. This mindset is left over from the “white women’s suffrage movement” that black women joined by leaving black men’s side to be on the white women’s side.
You’re typical of black women that separate yourself from black men, to join white women. The concept of feminism is a white concept, that black women foolishly try to adopt and they look stupid trying as it doesn’t work for them!
It’s ironic, being white women don’t participate in intersectionality. So black women are left looking like fools and mammies like Tammy the mammy.
If you support her, you’re a mammy too. Any black person that co-signs this obvious self hating, double agent is a sellout.
You’re basically defending Amber Guyger’s murder of a black man by proxy. being you’re supporting the black judge that had a hand in her light sentence.
She sold out black people for the robe….The white supremacist that appointed her, knew she would do their bidding.
And furthermore, i seriously doubt, that her behavior is a one off. She most definitely has treated white people less harshly than she treats black people.
There’s always one of them, lurking among real black people on code…. Black people, we need to be vigilant in pointing out these double agents and cast them out as honorary white supremacists, that look to undermine our mission by infiltrating our operation to bring down white supremacy!
Deny she may but stand strong in your conviction and stay far away from black people like Fannie LeFlore, being she’s dangerous.
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What comes from forgiveness? The bible says to forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Why? Is there some sort of reward? Is it a moral type of thing? Why do we think it’s a just and descent thing to forgive a people that are kicking our asses on a daily basis, while changing nothing. Einstein says that that is the definition of insanity. We forgive over and over, yet nothing changes. Does that mean we are insane as a people? Does that mean we are morally superior? Does that mean that at our core we are a kinder gentler people? A concept that didn’t go over very well in the sixties.
Apparently we learned nothing. A race of people that chases death has no place in their hearts for forgiveness. And that’s my description of Amber Guyger and those like her: cold hearted and calculating. Besides, it’s not the act of forgiving that’s a problem but it’s who you choose to forgive.
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Anybody tempted to give Judge Kemp a pass should do a thought experiment in which they change the gender frame. Imagine she was a black man. Yeah, black male judge hugs and comforts convicted female white cop murderer of black man eating ice-cream at home after giving her light sentence. Imagine him making rounds on TV after the backlash, crying tears about how victimized he was by the ensuing righteous indignation. Sounds weird yet? “Uncle Tom”, yes or no?
As a judge she should understand optics, and she probably does. However, she was viewing the situation through the eyes of those who supported her career (law enforcement) not through the eyes of members of the community of which she superficially appears to be a part. In other words she was performing for the audience that mattered to her; she didn’t care about the feelings of the community which felt violated and victimized by Guyger’s crime.
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BTW, I don’t know if anyone remember Lynn Toler from the “Divorce Court” show. I saw her take on youtube after I posted.
She thought the hug was “grossly inappropriate” and the judge failed to avoid the “appearance of impropriety”.
Quote:
“If she isn’t in the habit of hugging murderers, she shouldn’t have hugged this one because the only reason she hugged her is because she’s a police officer…you have to know things, the optics, look”.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woM0q1T2Q5k)
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@ KingRaized
“…people are defining their hate, beastfullness and unpeacefulness in their beings.”
I disagree.
Black people correct in seeing and calling out betrayers and sell-outs. White Supremacy is destroying Black people’s lives. Anger is a healthy and appropriate response to the “hate, beastfullness and unpeacefulness” exhibited by the White Power Structure.
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@ AugustNoone
“…that’s my description of Amber Guyger and those like her: cold hearted and calculating.”
Agreed.
Guyger entered Jean’s apartment with malice and forethought. She committed premeditated murder. She shot Jean and then stood around waiting for the life to bleed out of him.
If she was that upset about his loud singing, she had the option of talking it out with him or moving to another unit. Murder was not the way to go, but it is what she chose to do. She should face the natural consequences of her actions.
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“Tammy the Mammy” is an insult.
You betcha! It is both well deserved and highly appropriate. Judge Kemp is a grown Black woman. She knew what she was doing and deserves the negative criticism she is getting from Black people.
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I’m not a fan of DL Hughley, but he had an effective counter argument to the ‘turn the other cheek’ crowd in this YouTube clip entitled “A Hug Ain’t Gone Fix This”:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq02mO3wHU0)
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Fannie, you defending this bullshit makes me think you hug convicted murders daily.
Ask yourself why Miss Mammy doesn’t hug black convicted murders?
Ask yourself why this women was so surprised that Joshua Brown showed up to court to testify against Guyger?
Ask yourself why Miss Mammy was so willing to cater to the needs and wants of Guyer (giving her bible, hugging her tightly) without hesitation?
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Origin:
“Anybody tempted to give Judge Kemp a pass should do a thought experiment in which they change the gender frame. Imagine she was a black man. Yeah, black male judge hugs and comforts convicted female white cop murderer of black man eating ice-cream at home after giving her light sentence. Imagine him making rounds on TV after the backlash, crying tears about how victimized he was by the ensuing righteous indignation. Sounds weird yet? “Uncle Tom”, yes or no?
As a judge she should understand optics, and she probably does. However, she was viewing the situation through the eyes of those who supported her career (law enforcement) not through the eyes of members of the community of which she superficially appears to be a part. In other words she was performing for the audience that mattered to her; she didn’t care about the feelings of the community which felt violated and victimized by Guyger’s crime.”
Suburb breakdown!
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Anger is a healthy and appropriate response to the “hate, beastfullness and unpeacefulness” exhibited by the White Power Structure.
It’s insane to ‘forgive’ such behaviour and treatment. If you’re ‘sane’, you try to extricate yourself from such treatment as much as you can. You forgive someone trodding on your toes accidentally, or accidentally bumping into you or farting in your direction. You don’t excuse or forgive psychopathic behaviour which white supremacy is.
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sondis:
“However, she was viewing the situation through the eyes of those who supported her career (law enforcement) not through the eyes of members of the community of which she superficially appears to be a part. In other words she was performing for the audience that mattered to her; she didn’t care about the feelings of the community which felt violated and victimized by Guyger’s crime.”
BINGO!!!!! Why is this so hard to understand???
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Maybe it is because the victim was an African immigrant so she deemed his horrific death insignificant on the subconscious level…
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Not to nitpick but Botham Jean’s family is from the Anglophone (but French influenced) island of Saint Lucia in the Caribbean, actually.
Like most Caribbean countries there is a large proportion of people of African descent though (and that could be what you meant).
I honestly think the judge was just serving her masters and would have performed the same sellout act on behalf of Guyger regardless of where the black murder victim hailed from.
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@origin
At least she wasn’t covertly congratulated upon and treated to Burger King like Dylan Roof or was she?
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Untoldstory
“At least she wasn’t covertly congratulated upon and treated to Burger King like Dylan Roof or was she?”
Tammy mammy was 100 times worse than the happy meal, dylan roof got.
You would expect that from white supremacist cops, who deem themselves, judge, jury and executioner. But for a judge of all people and a BLACK judge at that! It was despicable… Truth be told, you just might be treated more fairly by a WHITE judge.
You know what they say about self hating black people. They treat their own worse than any other race of people. This case is proof of that….
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Amber Guyger is a heinous, racist, murderer who doesn’t and shouldn’t be getting any hugs, PERIOD! The judge was out of order.
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@sondis:
“You know what they say about self hating black people. They treat their own worse than any other race of people. ”
So true.
They have a certain malice rooted in their insecurity. At least the white person, comfortable in their position, can afford a show of magnanimity occasionally so that they don’t appear obviously biased against you. The self-hating black will go out of their way to show that they’re not biased TOWARDS you.
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Must be related to Meeks Judge
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