writer for MSN blames Sean Taylor's death on hip hop?

Question

Who didnt see this coming? another incident that people are trying to blame on hip hop

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7499442?MSNHPHCP>1=10637

makes references to Hip Hop as being the "Black KKK"...

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

somebody needs to find this coon a new job


anyways....drop any input you have on this article

silent assasin......did i? go back and read it

o tru....i was on MSN's page and clicked the link and didnt recognize Fox....they're extremely right wing

from 88: u think this whitlock knows the difference between "mainstream" and "underground" hip hop? NO, he's talking about HIP HOP as a whole, are you gonna sit here and justify this mans claim to blame Hip Hop for someone walkin into Taylor's house and shooting him? facts of the case arent even out yet, how can he (or anyone else) make such an outlandish claim?

Dilla: i read it, i got a prescription to SI

Dilla" lol i meant to say subscription...but i honestly can find the connection between Sean Taylor and and this "ghetto loyalty"..when i had read that article, it was def. true for Vick..he stayed around he friends he grew up wit, he funded them for illegal operations. he knew that if they went down, he was goin wit them. he made that bed, now he gotta sleep in it. u look at Taylor's track record..he only had 2? run-ins with the law..there was the DUI and then the case where he was in an altercation and allegedly pointed a gun at somebody. he was never really in a position where i feel as tho he fell victim to having to be "loyal" to the streets. All his isolated incidents where he's had trouble w/ the law, it seems as tho he's been alone..Vick is takin his whole neighborhood wit him

Answer 1

Fuhhhck....I like Jason Witlock too (as a writer)...and I was with him all the way till he got to the part about hip hop... Sean Taylor was no alter boy...and there is some thing suspect about the way he was killed...Cut phone lines..."robbed" a week earlier...But to blame this type of stuff on hip hop is FOUL...

If you read Sports Illustrated.... last week...there was a pretty good article on the Mike Vick situation on "Ghetto Loyalty"...I think that that article can speak more to the death of Sean Taylor then hip hop...Check out the article if you havent already..

LOL...Im not even trying to diss, but you said prescription like the SI is your medicine...

Anyways..since you read it do you agree with me??? S.T. death may have a bit to do with his "Loyalty"?

Answer 2

Nah bro you read it wrong.
He's Fox writer before an MSN writer.
And we all know how Fox is.

"N*gga F*ck News
F*ck those snake a/s/s b*tches trying to manipulate your opinion, telling you what to think"

I'm getting breaking news: Jason Whitlock is a sellout on his own community. Ignorant and opinionated, he should stick to his job as a stay-at-home housewife.

That is all. Back to you HNIC.

To $from88: I don't give a damn if he's talking about mainstream. Hip-hop is like a big brother-little brother relationship because only I can make fun of "him"(mainstream) since I'm a part of hip-hop. But I wouldn't let a stranger make fun of "him". Likewise, I'm not gonna let some chump bash hip-hop. Plus there's good mainstream out there too. Not that I really give a damn... skills first, message second. People just love to focus on negatives.

Qwerty: Influence is not the same as cause. Something can influence you to do things but it doesn't cause you to do it. You did it on your own. Responsibility. Not only that, there are other environmental factors that influence people.

Anyway let's get off this BS topic.
"I'm tired of these fools talkin that Paris Hilton mouth-full-of-dick garbage"

Answer 3

It's kind of like Lil Wayne on this board. Hip-hop obviously cannot be as big an influence as a lot of the mainstream media portrays it just like Lil Wayne obviously isn't the best rapper alive as the media portrays him. But Wayne still isn't the worst rapper alive, and hip-hop shouldn't get completely let off the hook.

A lot of hip-hop, hell I'd say the majority of hip-hop, does not focus on commercial or gangster things. But in the mainstream that style of hip-hop is unproportionally represented, so outsiders are going to generalize about what they see. In response people familiar with hip-hop (like people on this board) defend hip-hop, saying that these other people (and rightfully so) are bigoted, racist, and unfair when judging hip-hop.

But I don't buy for a second that hip-hop doesn't influence people because it is just music. You guys know that it is a culture, and unfortunately the culture's representation in the public eye has gone from upliftment to nihilism and violence. A British rapper that I listen to explains that in his neighborhood people are influenced by 50 Cent like rhymers and want to walk like thugs. And I'm sure to some extent the new hip-hop culture has influenced some people and neighborhoods in America.

Not all neighborhoods, but not none of the neighborhoods either.

The black KKK though? Stupid, I never liked Whitlock's writing anyway.

Answer 4

Jason Whitlock has said things like this before. this is another example of a older person who doesnt know what he is talking about. i understand his point that black on black crime is outrageous but to compare it to the KKK is ridiculous.
hip hop will always be the blame for every violent crime. but the thing people forget is that mostly WHITE people are the ones who are buying the music and going to the concerts. but if a white kid does something bad the media doesnt blame hip hop, they just say the kid had mental problems.

basically what i get from Mr. Whitlocks blog is that black people that listen to hip hop are dumb, ignorant, violent, hopeless, and have no purpose in life. HE SOUNDS LIKE A OLD RACIST WHITE MAN

Answer 5

A Black KKK? wooow..this man needs to be shot by ME...thats ridiculous..First of all "cockin on your b*tch"...maybe he doesnt know but NO ONE takes soulja boy seriously.. Black males get into this kinda life style themselves, if it was the music they were following then they'd be living in mantions and drinkin champagne and sh*t...wooow, I might update later lol...I have nothing more to say right now...

I mean, everytime a white kid shoots up a school, they blame it on video games. Or when a kid kills himself they blame it on the family or bullys at school...Do they not know about the lyrics to heavy metal music and some rock music? But you NEVER hear them blame that kinda music for anything. Its always hip hop and rap that gets kicked.

Its only because Sean Taylor had a past that they're blaming it on hip hop. If Colin Powel or Barak Obama got shot they wouldn't blame it on any type of hip hop cuz it would probably have been a white person who shot them. How is the black community suppose to stand up and be strong when we have white people ready and willing to hate us? Martin Luther King Jr. for example.

And I got a question...didnt it say that he was shot in the groin? If a n*ggga came and shot him in the groin I'd be a little creeped out at him...My guess is its an old girlfriend or something, tryin to shoot his lil man off HAHA...i dunno????

Answer 6

I think the journalist used the death of Sean Taylor to vent his frustration on the "hip hop" culture. He assumes a lot of stuff in his article and he dosen't seem to have a consistent point, other than the "Black KKK" is killing Black youth.

Of course, hip hop did not kill Sean Taylor. When I read the article and took away his Sean Taylor angle, I think I saw what he was trying to say. "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."

I'm pro education, non violent and I'm not rotten, but when you have people not taking personal responsibility and being so damn impressionable with everything they hear and see on TV, it makes people wonder.

Answer 7

The bottom line is this society is blaming too much on the media. Believe it or not there once was a time when people created ideas and ideas and image did not create the people. Image is nothing, if a man can kill another man and not have any remorse, he's not a man at all. He's a coward and an animal!

Answer 8

Man jason whitlock is such a coon....he writes stuff like this all the time...u know FOX news (propaganda) would only hire a black guy if he was somewhat hateful towards his own people.

do what I have done, e-mail that clown and tell him to stop bashing black folk and making this situation worse than what it already is....what a cockface...i hate that guy

Answer 9

Say I heard that Garth Brook's uncle's cousin's daddy's brother's Grandpa had a flat on the road and you know what? I think this is all Hip Hop's fault! On the real, who care what dude thinks... I don't even feel like clickin on the link cuz nowadays they'll blame Hip Hop for *ANYTHING* they can...

Answer 10

Everytime a black person is shot or killed... The media always says it's gang related or they blame it on hip-hop.

It's all bull... And it'll never change. But, what can you do?