<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> <div>There's a reason I call them the Black KKK. The pain, the fear and the destruction are all the same.</div> Someone who loved Sean Taylor is crying right now. The life they knew has been destroyed, an 18-month-old baby lost her father, and, if you're a black man living in America, you've been reminded once again that your life is in constant jeopardy of violent death.</p> The Black KKK claimed another victim, a high-profile professional football player with a checkered past this time.</p> No, we don't know for certain the circumstances surrounding Taylor's death. I could very well be proven wrong for engaging in this sort of aggressive speculation. But it's no different than if you saw a fat man fall to the ground clutching his chest. You'd assume a heart attack, and you'd know, no matter the cause, the man needed to lose weight.</p> Well, when shots are fired and a black man hits the pavement, there's every statistical reason to believe another black man pulled the trigger. That's not some negative, unfair stereotype. It's a reality we've been living with, tolerating and rationalizing for far too long.</p> When the traditional, white KKK lynched, terrorized and intimidated black folks at a slower rate than its modern-day dark-skinned replacement, at least we had the good sense to be outraged and in no mood to contemplate rationalizations or be fooled by distractions.</p> Our new millennium strategy is to pray the Black KKK goes away or ignores us. How's that working?</p> About as well as the attempt to shift attention away from this uniquely African-American crisis by focusing on an alleged injustice the white media allegedly perpetrated against Sean Taylor.</p> Within hours of his death, there was a story circulating that members of the black press were complaining that news outlets were disrespecting Taylor's victimhood by reporting on his troubled past</p> No disrespect to Taylor, but he controlled the way he would be remembered by the way he lived. His immature, undisciplined behavior with his employer, his run-ins with law enforcement, which included allegedly threatening a man with a loaded gun, and the fact a vehicle he owned was once sprayed with bullets are all pertinent details when you've been murdered.</p> Marcellus Wiley, a former NFL player, made the radio circuit Wednesday, singing the tune that athletes are targets. That was his explanation for the murders of Taylor and Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams and the armed robberies of NBA players Antoine Walker and Eddy Curry.</p> Really?</p> Let's cut through the bull(manure) and deal with reality. Black men are targets of black men. Period. Go check the coroner's office and talk with a police detective. These bullets aren't checking W-2s.</p> Rather than whine about white folks' insensitivity or reserve a special place of sorrow for rich athletes, we'd be better served mustering the kind of outrage and courage it took in the 1950s and 1960s to stop the white KKK from hanging black men from trees.</p> But we don't want to deal with ourselves. We take great joy in prescribing medicine to cure the hate in other people's hearts. Meanwhile, our self-hatred, on full display for the world to see, remains untreated, undiagnosed and unrepentant.</p> Our self-hatred has been set to music and reinforced by a pervasive culture that promotes a crab-in-barrel mentality.</p> You're damn straight I blame hip hop for playing a role in the genocide of American black men. When your leading causes of death and dysfunction are murder, ignorance and incarceration, there's no reason to give a free pass to a culture that celebrates murder, ignorance and incarceration.</p> Of course there are other catalysts, but until we recapture the minds of black youth, convince them that it's not OK to "super man dat ho" and end any and every dispute by "cocking on your bitch," nothing will change.</p> Does a Soulja Boy want an education?</p> HBO did a fascinating documentary on Little Rock Central High School, the Arkansas school that required the National Guard so that nine black kids could attend in the 1950s. Fifty years later, the school is one of the nation's best in terms of funding and educational opportunities. It's 60 percent black and located in a poor black community.</p> Watch the documentary and ask yourself why nine poor kids in the '50s risked their lives to get a good education and a thousand poor black kids today ignore the opportunity that is served to them on a platter.</p> Blame drugs, blame Ronald Reagan, blame George Bush, blame it on the rain or whatever. There's only one group of people who can change the rotten, anti-education, pro-violence culture our kids have adopted. We have to do it.</p> According to reports, Sean Taylor had difficulty breaking free from the unsavory characters he associated with during his youth.</p> The "keepin' it real" mantra of hip hop is in direct defiance to evolution. There's always someone ready to tell you you're selling out if you move away from the immature and dangerous activities you used to do, you're selling out if you speak proper English, embrace education, dress like a grown man, do anything mainstream.</p> The Black KKK is enforcing the same crippling standards as its parent organization. It wants to keep black men in their place — uneducated, outside the mainstream and six feet deep.</p> In all likelihood, the Black Klan and its mentality buried Sean Taylor, and any black man or boy reading this could be next.</div></p> Source: MSN Fox</p>
Thats was a good read, and I agree with alot of things in there. Kids today, don't take education seriously, and are more involved with the dangerous things going on at their neighborhood, than their education.</p>
Wow. Great article. Made quite a few strange points, but at the same time, he also made quite a few great points. My favorite part:</p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="250" class="moreTeamsLinks" colspan="3" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(157, 157, 157); border-right: 1px solid rgb(157, 157, 157); padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Of course there are other catalysts, but until we recapture the minds of black youth, convince them that it's not OK to "super man dat ho" and end any and every dispute by "cocking on your *****," nothing will change.</p> Does a Soulja Boy want an education?</p> HBO did a fascinating documentary on Little Rock Central High School, the Arkansas school that required the National Guard so that nine black kids could attend in the 1950s. Fifty years later, the school is one of the nation's best in terms of funding and educational opportunities. It's 60 percent black and located in a poor black community.</p> <u>Watch the documentary and ask yourself why nine poor kids in the '50s risked their lives to get a good education and a thousand poor black kids today ignore the opportunity that is served to them on a platter.</u></p> Blame drugs, blame Ronald Reagan, blame George Bush, blame it on the rain or whatever. There's only one group of people who can change the rotten, anti-education, pro-violence culture our kids have adopted. We have to do it.</div></p> He made a GREAT point there.</p>
Great article, but I wouldn't blame it on hip-hop, well the culture I consider hip-hop. Souljah Boy isn't hip-hop at all and I wouldn't group him and a lot of other rappers out there into that label.</p> I think everyone goes through a phase in their life when they want to impress people with material items, acting hard, or other acts of immaturity. Helping someone get out of that phase is what people need to figure out.</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Mamba)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> Shape can you clean up my post for me? I really don't understand how to post articles here...</p> </div></p> Done.</p> This site copies all the HTML code from a page that's why it grabbed all the side navigation and what not. To avoid it you just need to cut and paste the text instead of highlighting the entire page. You might have to cut and paste two or three seperate times, because sometimes sites code other crap into the article.</p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (shapecity)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> Great article, but I wouldn't blame it on hip-hop, well the culture I consider hip-hop. Souljah Boy isn't hip-hop at all and I wouldn't group him and a lot of other rappers out there into that label.</p> I think everyone goes through a phase in their life when they want to impress people with material items, acting hard, or other acts of immaturity. Helping someone get out of that phase is what people need to figure out.</p> </div></p> so true. My friend showed me this:</p> </p> hahaha...</p>
I think its dangerous to say that its the black KKK. Rather, I think these problems come from the lower socio-economic class, where a significant number of African Americans lay. It's a minor criticism, but makes it more accurate. It's not the black that makes people harm others (who may just so happen to be black) but rather many of these people are in a class that perpetuates violence.</p>
I read the article then saw the link to Fox Sports, i knew right away it was Jason Whitlock. Dude writes controversial stuff and is often called and uncle tom. Often times he brings up some good points that people of color often don't want to read. For the most part I still don't really care for the guy.</p> On a side note did anyone hear Antrell Rolle talk about Taylor and his death? He said some childhood "friends" they grew up with have been trying to get Sean for the past three years. The plot thickens...</p>
Do you guys even know what the meaning of the REAL KKK is? Or what it stood for? Imo this Black KKK is the complete opposite</p>
This article is another swipe at hip-hop music, which is by-and-large very harmless. There are some criminals who also are musicians. Are all musicians criminals? Are all hip-hop artists promoting violence and thuggery? The answer is obviously no. If you don't believe me, then you have a very limited exposure to the music, and your belief has been influenced by only a very small sample of artists who just happened to be on the radio at the exact same time that you listened to it.</p> I recently attended a Q&A with film maker Spike Lee. He offered his opinion on some of these questions during the sesssion. He described his own childhood in New York (He's in his 50's now). Back then, there was always a neighborhood pimp, and the whole neighborhood knew who that guy was. Back then, he said, nobody ever "aspired" to be that guy, or look at him as a "role-model". He mentioned 50-Cent as an example with what is wrong with hip-hop these days. Just the mere title of his album, "Get rich, or Die Trying", and the opening lyrics "Im gonna stab, shoot, kill, everyone....blah blah...." is pretty horrible if you really think about it, "crazy", as Lee described it. 50-Cent is a terrible role-model for youngsters, and Lee blames the big record companies for selecting him to market in the first place. The record companies are out to make money, and have absolutely no remorse when they openly promote violent criminals and their messages to the masses. For some people, the only exposure they have to music is through the public radio. If the public radio is spewing out garbage, then the end result is going to be garbage. I am not advocating all out censorship, but perhaps record marketing can give more airplay to music that isn't filled with so much hate, and reward those people accordingly. Sadly, hip-hop artists are often signed to records not based on their actual musical talent, but how long their rap sheet is.</p> The author is kind of dumb for drumming this whole thing up as some "black kkk" thing. Sean Taylor's death has absolutely no connection to any such thing.</p> </p> </p> </p>
I agree with GMJigga. Race and economic class are very strongly linked, but I think he's making a mistake by pointing to race as the root of this senseless violence, instead of poverty/economic circumstances. Also, his generalizations about hip hop are both unfair and typical.</p>
White on Black, Black on White, Black on Black, White on White....until we view it for what it us, Man on Man violence, we will never be the society we strive to be....</p>
I didn't know there was a Black KKK. I don't know what the hell Hip-Hop, or Rap has to do with any of this.</p> One thing I learned back in the 60's was this; Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't somebody out to get you.</p> Sean had enemies. Some of his own making. If someone wants to get you bad enough, they'll get you.</p>
He isn't blaming it on rap and hip hop, he is calling out black youth for idolizing the gangster aspect of hip hop music, "to get rich or die trying" aspect of hip hop and rape.</p> If the generalizations about hip hop are "typical", it says a lot about hip hop and what it is portraying.</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Mamba)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> He isn't blaming it on rap and hip hop, he is calling out black youth for idolizing the gangster aspect of hip hop music, "to get rich or die trying" aspect of hip hop and rape.</p> If the generalizations about hip hop are "typical", it says a lot about hip hop and what it is portraying.</p> </div></p> "<font size="5">You're damn straight I blame hip hop</font> for playing a role in the genocide of American black men."</p> He blames hiphop.</p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TheBeef)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> White on Black, Black on White, Black on Black, White on White....until we view it for what it us, Man on Man violence, we will never be the society we strive to be....</p> </div></p> We'll never be that society until our skin color is the same. There will always be racism, hate and crime. (whether white on on black or vice versa)</p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Mamba)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> He isn't blaming it on rap and hip hop, he is calling out black youth for idolizing the gangster aspect of hip hop music, "to get rich or die trying" aspect of hip hop and rape.</p> If the generalizations about hip hop are "typical", it says a lot about hip hop and what it is portraying.</p> </div></p> "You're damn straight I blame hip hop for playing a role in the genocide of American black men."</p> We're talking about 2 turntables and a microphone, not the specific rantings of a criminal. An analogy would be, guns don't kill people, people kill people. What yiou are saying is, that when a person uses 2 turntables and a microphone to make music, then they are an immediate risk to kill you.</p> </p> </p> </p> </p>
