Dec 02
Tags: Bad Guys,Community,Crime,Criminals,Culture,DarwinAtWork,EvolutionInAction,Race,Saddness,Scumbag
JASON WHITLOCK ON race, violence, and politics. (Via Brutally Honest).
Deep Thought
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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I always thought that this was the definition of the term ” Homeboy “. Guess I was wrong huh ?
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It is deeply disturbing, but not at all surprising to realize that this is going on. Power abhors a vacuum, and the one thing people are always jockeying for is power.
Imagine, though, what could be accomplished if we all worked together, even if it were only for a short while. I know, lets all join hands and sing kumbayya. Sigh. It really is a sad waste
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GREAT article! Jason Whitlock has a good grip on a serious problem. Savory food for serious thought, Bill, many thanks for pointing the article out!
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Thats where the term ” Generation gap ” comes into play Bill. I never heard of the term until it started going around the jails ( I’ve been in the system for 30 years ). It was more of a ‘ghetto’ slang term that just came full circle. Prior to that I do believe a ‘friend’ was just that , a friend ! And God forbid your ‘friend’ should slaughter you. Guess times have just changed….
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Herb, God, I hate getting old! I feel like such a dick when I whip off a term I thought was hip and current, only to be stared at like an insect by my 14 year old daughter. Sigh.
I call friends, Buds, friends, not much else. I live a sheltered life.
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I tend not to listen to those paint with a broad stroke. While much of what he said may be true, those closest to the man that died say he was a different man after the birth of his daughter. Since then, no one has a spec of evidence to prove otherwise. So I think Whitlock is out of place here. There are those who will always look for the worst. Just read the SG posts. It’s their right I guess. I believe people can change. If not, why listen to me?
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Do the choices you made 10 years ago affect you today? I believe they do.
Is it sad an unfair? yes and no. Sad, surely, unfair, no so much.
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Can be fun too. Depends on how you look at. I could care less about what someone thinks about what I did ten years ago. Part of me would even like to throw it in their face and say “how do you like me now?” Hmmm….maybe I haven’t changed.
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We all make mistakes. If someone is going to hold something against you that occurred ten years ago, then they have problems. If I’m truly sorry and apologize it should be over. If someone still has problems, they can pucker up. If they come after me, I will turn the other cheek, after that, they get the other “cheeks”.
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Too much trouble to hold grudges like that. Much easier to jsut cut the person out completely.
If they insist on really getting annoying, direct confrontation is usually best.
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Also Bill, I know you don’t like Sharpton, but he has the coolest theme music.
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No, it’s the beginning of “Come Together” by the Beatles. You have to listen closely but you hear “Sharpton…………….Sharpton…………..Sharpton……”
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The man earns a living on keeping people at each others throats. A sad, sad man.
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I sometimes catch his 5 minute snippet on the way to work. He can be entertaining. I see him as being no different than anyone else with a tv/radio show. Some parts you take, some you leave behind. There was a time when I wouldn’t listen to him at all, but I realized that you have to listen to everyone.
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I felt what Jason Whitlock had to say could be applied to everyone in any walk of life. We’re all human, we all have the same reactions unless we’ve learned to be wise and consider all options.
Some of us have and our lives have been more smoothe. Others have never learned and probably never will.
Truly unfortunate for all of us.
I felt it was a good article.
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Nina, I thought it was good also, I just thought he got too personal without credible evidence.
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I don’t believe that. Anything can happen to anyone at anytime.
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What lifestyle? Because he liked to hang out at night clubs? Well, a lot 22 year olds do. Because he tried to recover stolen proper and he was armed? A lot of people may do that, at that age, I may have. Because he has friends that have criminal records? I do now. Because he has money and likes to show it? Now that’s what he did wrong. Still, it doesn’t mean that he deserved to die.
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Most definitely. The day he was born he was at a higher risk. But not because he was a thug, as Whitlock suggests.
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That’s what he suggests. The people he grew up with, the associates he had contact with, and the person he was, caused his death.
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