This Cat Has It Right

NFL football player recently murdered. This link gives a real insight.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7499442?MSNHPHCP&GT=10637

link doesn't work gerald47

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tencz57 said: link doesn't work gerald47

 

Try moving it into your browser. I copied it verbatim from another site. Why it doesn't work I don't know? Never had this problem before? If you cannot get it to work maybe I can just move the entire article onto this thread? It's late now and tomorrow is a work day. Added the www. and another. , and it still doesn't want to work?

Link still does not work!!

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http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/74... Try it now.

Gerald47 said: http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/74... Try it now.

This link works and the article is very interesting, not because it is something that we didn't already know, but that this situation that so many black youths find themselves in is finally being talked about in their communities.  Bill Cosby has been doing his best to spread the word that it's OK to get an education and speak good English in order to be successful in life.  The so-called "black leaders" have had too much power for too long to the detriment of so many people.

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FireWing said:

Gerald47 said: http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/74... Try it now.

This link works and the article is very interesting, not because it is something that we didn't already know, but that this situation that so many black youths find themselves in is finally being talked about in their communities.  Bill Cosby has been doing his best to spread the word that it's OK to get an education and speak good English in order to be successful in life.  The so-called "black leaders" have had too much power for too long to the detriment of so many people.

I'm not trying to be a smart alec but can you explain the inside and situation blacks find themselves in?

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(CM) theSuperPatriot said:

FireWing said:

Gerald47 said: http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/74... Try it now.

This link works and the article is very interesting, not because it is something that we didn't already know, but that this situation that so many black youths find themselves in is finally being talked about in their communities.  Bill Cosby has been doing his best to spread the word that it's OK to get an education and speak good English in order to be successful in life.  The so-called "black leaders" have had too much power for too long to the detriment of so many people.

I'm not trying to be a smart alec but can you explain the inside and situation blacks find themselves in?

 

I mean that they are taught that they are victims of society, of the white man and that they can't make it in this country.  So they turn to gangs and crime and early motherhood to bring meaning and stature to their lives.  The saddest thing I ever saw on the Oprah Winfrey show years ago was a healthy, good-looking young man from her audience stand up and say that he couldn't make it in America because of the white man......on the Oprah Winfrey show!  Where do they learn this stuff?  Where were they taught to be what Larry Elder calls "victicrats"?  Hopefully this is changing and these kids will be taught instead that they can get to where they want to in life.

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FireWing said:

(CM) theSuperPatriot said:

FireWing said:

Gerald47 said: http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/74... Try it now.

This link works and the article is very interesting, not because it is something that we didn't already know, but that this situation that so many black youths find themselves in is finally being talked about in their communities.  Bill Cosby has been doing his best to spread the word that it's OK to get an education and speak good English in order to be successful in life.  The so-called "black leaders" have had too much power for too long to the detriment of so many people.

I'm not trying to be a smart alec but can you explain the inside and situation blacks find themselves in?

 

I mean that they are taught that they are victims of society, of the white man and that they can't make it in this country.  So they turn to gangs and crime and early motherhood to bring meaning and stature to their lives.  The saddest thing I ever saw on the Oprah Winfrey show years ago was a healthy, good-looking young man from her audience stand up and say that he couldn't make it in America because of the white man......on the Oprah Winfrey show!  Where do they learn this stuff?  Where were they taught to be what Larry Elder calls "victicrats"?  Hopefully this is changing and these kids will be taught instead that they can get to where they want to in life.

 

Ok that makes sense but how does it relate to a successful football player?  Thanks for answering.

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Sean Taylor was lucky, he had talent, he had the opportunity to have a life in the sports world, but apparently according to the article he was unable to leave his past behind.  I guess his past included people that turned to crime instead of education to make their way in life.  Sad, just very sad and tragic.  One young talented father and husband dead and four young men to spend their lives in prison.  Why?

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No reason.  I just didn't understand? Thanks for the insite.  Thanks for answering.

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The author, Jason Whitlock, makes some very impressive and important points.  I wish more people in the black community would pay attention. 

And, Bill Cosby has been trying to get black people to listen to him for years.  It seems Jason Whitlock listened.  How can you look at these 2 men as examples and think that a black person still has no chance to make a good life for himself?  Bill Cosby made a better life for himself than most people of any color.

Fortunately, the days when the white KKK was very active are gone.  The majority of people today realize that such hatred and bigotry are morally reprehensible.  It really is time for people to stop letting themselves feel like victims and to start becoming what they are capapble of becoming.

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Firewing - the saddest thing I ever saw on the Oprah Winfrey show years ago was a healthy, good looking young man from her audience stand up and say that he couldn't make it in America because of the white man-----

To me there's nothing sad about that--that kind of crap infuriates me---oh my God it infuriates me---glad I didn't see it-then again--I don't watch Oprah

(CM) theSuperPatriot said: No reason.  I just didn't understand? Thanks for the insite.  Thanks for answering.

I'm sorry, SP, I wasn't asking you "why", it was more like why does this have to be this way in this country.

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There has always been those who profit from hate mongering.

I've been stiring the pot on some of the pro Hispanic sites, one of the first responses to any anti illegall immigration statement, is a direct comparison to the KKK, along with a few other referances to "I must be a paranoid Xynaophobe(spelling??) and a racist"

I'm sure there are those in the Black community that profit from perpetuating the "poor black man victom" syndrom, look at the power some of the preachers, so called men of god have over their communitys, crying foul any time any thing can be construed to be the "Racist" act of white men, and blaming all the woes of their community on the whites.

Its  difficult to wield that power if your community is working hard and prospering, and even harder to convince someone in the 6 figure income bracket that they should protest a non issue.

People seem to always find any reason to justify their out look right or wrong.

 

It's easier for people to claim they are victims than it is for those same people to get off their butts and get out of bed and off to school to get an education and then make something of themselves using that education.  Our daughter is a teacher and she goes balistic when "No child left behind" is mentioned.  Teachers are expected to prove they are good teachers based on test scores.  But they cannot teach kids who aren't in the desks.  Therefore these same kids can't pass the standards tests.  How is that the teachers' fault?  It isn't.  But until parents take responsibility and see that their kids get to school and then do the homework and follow through nothing is going to change.  Some kids make it inspite of their home life but most don't.  Then it becomes easier for them to cry that they are victims.

Very good mammaw-I sit my son's butt down everyday after school at his antique school desk in my home- and WE do our homework--I even make up extra for him.  I would hate to be a school teacher.