I’m getting tired of explaining myself when someone like you “curious” comes along.

I’ll keep this short.

No one blamed whitey.

Why aren’t there white athletes being attacked and jacked?

One thinks of the old Chris Rock joke….”why should I be scared of the media? the media ain’t robbing and killing young black athletes.”

Sure, you can do a nice little sociological/historical analysis and eventually, you can point the finger at white institutional racism, but let’s be real, whitey ain’t causing young black men to kill other young black men for their chains or their stacks.

There are whites who are poor as well, but they aren’t shooting at Mike Miller or Jason Williams. So let’s ask ourselves, why are black athletes seemingly 100X more likely than whites to be attack by one of their own (or 10000X more likely to killed by a young black man)?

I am not a full subscriber to the Whitlock blame hip-hop theory, but aren’t we sticking our heads in the sand to think there isn’t some connection between the glorification of violence in hip-hop and the violent, outlaw culture that seems to be celebrated on the streets?

I would never censor one’s art, even if I think it hardly deserves to be called art, so if you think I’m calling for a hip-hop ban, you’re wrong. I am however asking the question of how we can implicate whitey in this one? Why aren’t black men valuing black life? If it’s not hip-hop, is it too many Scarface viewings? I understand the institutional forces that created the situation, but explaining how slavery, jim crow, and current institutional racism caused the poverty and desparation that drives young black men to kill others for their chain offers no link to a solution; unless you think reparations are the answer (and no doubt they could be, but I got a better chance at a Beyonce, Rihanna, Ciara threesome than any black person in America has at getting reparations)

Also, one other question for the post about Sheldon Williams getting a pass for going to school for 4 years and graduating Duke, how is that racist? Am I misreading your intent?

Duke is one of the top academic institutions in this country, and you can’t be successful there for 4 years if you’re an A-hole and a poor student. So yeah, Sheldon has earned his pass. Pardon me, but some brother who faked through one year of some half-assed college and keeps it real with his boys, he doesn’t get the pass so easily.

Just like the white boys at Duke get way more respect than the white boys at WVU or LSU (where a corpse could get in). Implying that sheldon is some how an acceptable knee-grow because of his Duke degree smacks of the anti-intellectualism that is hurting our community.

Why don’t you act like a man and address me directly? What’s this third person shit? I’m right here.

Oh, but before you do, please read MY words for what they are. MY point runs contrary to Ms Hill’s in that where she sees apples and oranges, I see the same strange fruit. If you don’t get it, then just say that. But don’t tell me I’ve misread something. I can read, potna. Can you?

DMac’s attack on Jemele and Mizzo was uncalled for.

Last Poet’s response was the truth and cats need to realize that it can and does happen anywhere for these athletes. So where things happened needs to be a very, very small part of any discussion.

And finally, on the subject of wealth disparities.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/business/15rich.html?_r=2&ref=business&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

His dog was the truth.

There was no way the I am Legend film was going to end like the book…no way at all…lol…..I didnt make it through the whole film but I saw that much coming lol!!!!

The Last Poet is coming at Jemele as if she is attacking these players for what has happened to him. First off, he must be talking about J. Tinsley, because that is the ONLY player where I have seen that her writing can be twisted into the way he did.

He may not know, but her comments are correct. Tinsley could have been a little more careful than he was. Even for people that are not rich, if you know there is a side of town where individuals do not like you, and are willing to attack you, you don’t go there. Let alone at 3:40am. If I will be considered a “media attacker” then so be it. But from my own personal experiences, I know better than to do something like that. ESPECIALLY driving three high priced cars, and with a bunch of friends, drawing so much more attention to myself.

Then he tries to twist her “apples and oranges” comment. Are you serious? She was saying the situations between Williams and Tinsley are completely different, period. I personally haven’t seen anyone blaming Williams for anything, because he didn’t do anything questionable. Again, I still feel that Tinsley could have been a little smarter in the situation to begin with.

I personally don’t believe you can lump what happened to Tinsley into the same group as Sean, Eddy, Antoine, Williams and the Broncos player (damn I always forget his first name!!!!) Those men did nothing at all to draw attention to themselves. I feel that Tinsley did. Now that DOESNT mean he deserved what happened that night. Hell nah not at all. But come on man, common sense.

I could keep going but I wont….it just blows my mind the way people try to twist and bend someone’s words then attack them with it. Hilarious….

Well said.

The point is that pro athletes, ostensibly, cannot leave the house without drawing the envy of the masses (and sportswriters…). Time of day or night is irrelevant. “Posse’d up” and “parking lot pimping” is irrelevant (why the sensational language? To say that he was out with friends and had just pulled into the parking lot is not “controversial” enough?). Carrying a weapon – oops, I mean “packing” (I know, I know, we gotta make these ghetto niggers sound as low down as possible! I’m trying!) is protected by the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution, a document which applies to niggers/thugs as much as it applies to anyone else, or so I’m told. And, oh wait, it’s actually gotten to the point that pro athletes do not even have to leave the house in order to be victimized, maybe even murdered.

Apples and oranges?

It doesn’t matter which fruit you prefer, the point, again, is that these cats are catching hell whether its late night or early afternoon, whether they’re asleep or awake, in the house or at the club, getting their hair cut or “making it rain,” etc etc. They’re not catching hell because they’re making “bad decisions.” Stop blaming the victim! Shid, nobody’s perfect, but Tinsley did more right than he did wrong in his latest incident, and Shelden, Sean, Antione, Eddy and the young bro from the Broncos didn’t do anything wrong.

Rather, they’re catching hell in the streets because they’re wealthy, semi-famous, and very vulnerable, and they (we) are living in a society where there is great disparity between the wealthy few and er’body else. The fact that most of us sheep seem ok with that disparity obviously doesn’t sit too well with the poor desperados who are willing to take life and limb into their own hands…

Furthermore, these young black athletes are cathing hell in the press from the likes of you, Ms Hill, as well as your mainstream cronies, because they’re Black. There can be no other reason because the standards you apply to these young bros you have not applied to anyone else.

Please get it together, you ol fogey!

Probably won’t see it. They say the ending is happy go lucky in order for hollywood to make a sequal.

You know hollywood messes up everything. The thing is the book, the movie last man on earth and omega man both had a sad ending.

How can the title be I am legend if the ending doesn’t even fit the title.

The ending is the reason he is a legend.

He was probably in the barber shop buying tweed.

Does it count if I fell asleep in the theater…all these late night shifts caught up with me REAL fast….lol

Lumping Tinsley in with Shelden Williams is apples and oranges.

As for I Am Legend, gotta disagree with you on that one, Mizzo. This was Castaway with creatures. The ending was very anticlimatic.

I could be wrong.

Mizzo,
You don’t have to explain yourself to anyone…if he couldn’t understand the context of your statements in the Tinsley posts, then he can catch fire.

You guys are hillarious!