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Honesty @ its Best. I am sad for the family of Sean Taylor and his loss of life @  24 with a 18 month old baby girl. At first I was very suprised because Jason Whitlock (the author) is a black man. Very good article.

Taylor's death a grim reminder for us all
Jason Whitlock / FOXSports.com
Posted: 1 hour ago

There's a reason I call them the Black KKK. The pain, the fear and the destruction are all the same.
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.

The Black KKK claimed another victim, a high-profile professional football player with a checkered past this time.

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.

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.

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.


Our new millennium strategy is to pray the Black KKK goes away or ignores us. How's that working?

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.

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

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.

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.

Really?

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.

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.

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.

Our self-hatred has been set to music and reinforced by a pervasive culture that promotes a crab-in-barrel mentality.

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.

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 pregnant dog," nothing will change.

Does a Soulja Boy want an education?

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.

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.

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.

According to reports, Sean Taylor had difficulty breaking free from the unsavory characters he associated with during his youth.

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.

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.

In all likelihood, the Black Klan and its mentality buried Sean Taylor, and any black man or boy reading this could be next.


http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7499442

That is a very good article, Scott!

Too bad the ones he is addressing wont take the time to read it.

We can not run away. Its worse depending on where you live. I reside in Broward and escape to a northern county on weekends, partially because of this type of our society, is real active near where I am raising my family.

Great article.....and all too true

What a great bold article!! And true!! This reminds me of some of Bill Cosby's rhetoric!!

I was born & raised until my teens in Ft Lauderdale. South Plantation area. Thats where I would have went to school.
I hated leaving then, but am grateful now that I have children. See my parents were right.
In 1978 I was attending Pine Ridge Elementary near St Rd 7 & Peters Rd now the Davie Blvd extension. It was built in 1979. I remember in 3rd grade they closed my school which was predominantly white, probably 70/30 & planned on bussing us all across town to Broward Estates Elem, which was right next to Parkway Middle School. These 2 schools at that time were publicised as 98% black. These 2 schools were the only ones that had armed security guards & 6' barbwire fences around them, that were not High Schools. Every year on the last day the white kids were beat up by the gangs & robbed on a weekly basis of their lunch money. I know this because I had friends less fortunate than I was & they had no choice but to be bussed there.
Needless to say I entered the private school sector at that time.
The neighborhood my grandfather built the first house in in 1951 is now called "Rock Hill"(go figure) at the end of the Davie Blvd extension. I wouldnt walk down the street at night there anymore. The south Florida I remember is so far different today. I only long for the everglades anymore & they are so polluted it isnt fun anymore. I know if I lived down there now, my agenda would be to find a way out asap.
Oh yeah, back then the dean of Parkway was Harold Pearson, the biggest black guy you ever met, his brother was Drew Pearson .......anyone know who he was?

As a black man that article offends me.






















































Ha ha, just kidding. I'm Mexican.  :D

Great article.

Bill

The great All-Pro wide receiver (#88) for the Dallas Cowboys from the early-mid 70's to early-mid 80's!   8)

we have a winner.

Thanks Scott, I forward it to his father.

PS: the funeral is at 11:00 am on Monday at FIU.

As a hurricane fan, I remember when he helped the Canes come back from 25pts down in the 4th quarter to beat the Gaytors. What a game!
One thing to remember, he seemed to embrace the thug life. If you choose to surround yourself with thugs & live like thugs, you will die like a thug.
I know when I had my first child EVERYTHING changed quick. He chose to stay in an area where he was accessible to the shades of his past. He "kept it real" & now he is killed senselessly.
Someone disabled the alarm system, so they had to know him or run with him at one time to have that type of access.
Time will tell who & why. Some people probably wont like the results, I hope i am wrong, but something smells fishy. Why didnt they steal anything if it was a burglary gone bad. It isnt like Taylor was gonna run them down after they shot him.
Dont be surprised if the GF isnt in on something.

If any members want to sent Sean father a message. His father and family are taking this real bad, Chief Pedro Taylor Jr his e-mail address is fcpdptaylor@florida.com.

 My prayers and thoughts are with his family.

From the News Tonight it looks like this was 100% dead on balls accurate!!