Redskins' Sean Taylor Shot in his Home- in Critical Condition

Originally Posted by mr monty

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http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7...HCP&GT1=10637#
That's a powerful article. "There's a reason I call them the Black ***. 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *****," 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 *** 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."

Originally Posted by amerikajinda

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That's a powerful article.

"There's a reason I call them the Black ***. 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *****," 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 *** 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."

This man deserves

Police suspect a random burglary, but childhood friend Antrel Rolle believes Taylor was targeted by former "friends" upset that he had turned his life around.

Originally Posted by Ambulance Chaser

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Police suspect a random burglary, but childhood friend Antrel Rolle believes Taylor was targeted by former "friends" upset that he had turned his life around.

I think it was not random... (break-in and knife left on bed just over a week ago? I would have turned on my alarm system and hired security to patrol the outside of my house!)

Originally Posted by amerikajinda

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Someone who loved Sean Taylor is crying right now. The life they knew has been destroyed, an 18-month-old baby lost her father


Here in DC where his death received (and still receives) a lot of coverage, my local station interrupted basically all other news the other morning to show the same footage over and over and simply say the same things over and over. No actual news was presented about his killing or anything else. As part of that, they showed a brief statement by a lady with a small child at Taylor's memorial at his house (or maybe it was at the Redskins' facility or something). She was crying and said how said it was that this happened to someone with a child. That it affects the children really affected her.

Then they followed up the Taylor story with another about a 2 year-old dying the night before (again, one of the few other news stories they broadcast). No random strangers were shown crying for that child. The number of murders in DC this year has already exceeded last year's total. Where are the crying strangers grieving these deaths?

That this man was shot and killed is horrible. There's no doubting it. But if the media and others want me to not care, you're all doing a great job. I'm digusted at the coverage and emotion this murder brings out. Because he's a sports star, people show up in droves to mourn him. What I found particularly interesting was that the media never cited any instances of community service or other charity work he did. The only contribution he made to his community was playing a sport. The best they could say was that he had really matured since the birth of his daughter. What does that say about his character before?

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Originally Posted by rdawson808

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Here in DC where his death received (and still receives) a lot of coverage, my local station interrupted basically all other news the other morning to show the same footage over and over and simply say the same things over and over. No actual news was presented about his killing or anything else. As part of that, they showed a brief statement by a lady with a small child at Taylor's memorial at his house (or maybe it was at the Redskins' facility or something). She was crying and said how said it was that this happened to someone with a child. That it affects the children really affected her.

Then they followed up the Taylor story with another about a 2 year-old dying the night before (again, one of the few other news stories they broadcast). No random strangers were shown crying for that child. The number of murders in DC this year has already exceeded last year's total. Where are the crying strangers grieving these deaths?

That this man was shot and killed is horrible. There's no doubting it. But if the media and others want me to not care, you're all doing a great job. I'm digusted at the coverage and emotion this murder brings out. Because he's a sports star, people show up in droves to mourn him. What I found particularly interesting was that the media never cited any instances of community service or other charity work he did. The only contribution he made to his community was playing a sport. The best they could say was that he had really matured since the birth of his daughter. What does that say about his character before?

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Don't matter. # 21 rocked the house.

Amerikajinda,

Sometimes I enjoy reading Whitlock, sometimes I consider him to be an idiot, however a good part of this article had some truth to it. My only reluctance was more in line with the fact that Whitlock blames everything on Hip-hop, without first examining some of the socio-economic issues that were in place prior to the time Hip-hop de-evolved to the state where it is now.

Originally Posted by Southern-Nupe

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Sometimes I enjoy reading Whitlock, sometimes I consider him to be an idiot, however a good part of this article had some truth to it. My only reluctance was more in line with the fact that Whitlock blames everything on Hip-hop, without first examining some of the socio-economic issues that were in place prior to the time Hip-hop de-evolved to the state where it is now.

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Amerikajinda....you have made my day, I am sending that to my wife right now!

Originally Posted by lawyerdad

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I would imagine that if he's eligible for a pension or anything similar (no idea of the NFL or the union provide basic life insurance, for example) he would have had to designate a beneficiary. Frankly, any sports agent who isn't making clients playing (and earning) at that level do some basic estate planning is professionally negligent, in my opinion. If I were running a pro sports franchise I might insist on it as part of the bargaining process, just to reduce the likelihood of getting dragged into disputes over unsettled estates, etc.

I think many agents simply leave such matters to the players' own wisdom. From the couple of sports law conferences I have attended, some agents seem pretty coldly arms-length with their clients. Not a lot of hugs in the hallway after the players make game-winning TD catches.

Originally Posted by retronotmetro

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I think many agents simply leave such matters to the players' own wisdom. From the couple of sports law conferences I have attended, some agents seem pretty coldly arms-length with their clients. Not a lot of hugs in the hallway after the players make game-winning TD catches.

I am guessing that they don't have a lot in common.

What Sean Taylor needed was his own personal Jerry Maguire. For me, whenever I see the handwringing trying to find out how someone ended up this way, I always end up in exactly the same place -- not hip-hop, not gangs, not poverty, not drugs, not The Man (black, white or otherwise)... So, what do we know about Mr. and Mrs. Taylor senior?

S-nupe said his dad is a cop.....

His father was supposedly very active in his life, as a matter of fact he just did one of the press releases.

His father is Florida City police chief, and he attended Gulliver Prep school, which is a private school in the suburbs of Miami.

True enough, I did see that somewhere and forgot , but I was speaking more of parenting skills/habits. People put far too much stock in how educated the parents are, what they do for a living, how much money they have... which is why people are often mystified when a bunch of suburban kids shoot up a school.