[goldstategop]

Why don community organizers throw away their lives? Because there’s nothing to live for.

God is dead in da hood.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Terrence was the only child [his mother, Donna Tusan] had left,

What happened to the others? Death by misadventure?

[umgud]

Terrence Neal Tusan was a "good kid" and student.

Except for the occasional home invasion..........

[Pollster1]

Tusan was a "good kid" and student.

I would never describe a thug with a gun breaking into another person's home to commit armed robbery as a "good kid". Any culture that doesn't see the contradiction is a failed culture.

[Old Sarge]

Don’t tell me, let me guess: he was “turning his life around”, right?

[RoosterRedux]

Let me guess...he was a gentle giant who was turning his life around.

[Old Sarge]

Police say three men forced their way into an apartment and gunfire broke out, leaving two suspects dead and two residents wounded.

So, was he a resident or a perp?

[Nepeta]

White people made him do it, those evil grafted snakes, those albino mutants, those glacier monkeys...they drove him to do it.

But he was a good boy. In a just world, no one would have been able to shoot him. /sarc

Live by the stupid, die by the stupid.

[Paladin2]

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Nevels, who said he knew Tusan for 15 years, told the Denton newspaper that Tusan didn't have a criminal history and wasn't known to be associated with drugs.

There's an insidious other drug that black youth is associated with, namely, rap/hip-hop "culture," and it's more pernicious than meth or crack or any other pharmaceutical substance. They are fascinated by it, and its glorification of crime and chaos. Even the good ones.

[Shimmer1]

He was a good boy. Fine, good boys sometimes have another side. Just because you’re nice in front of certain people doesn’t mean you’re a good person, necessarily.

[exPBRrat]

Well, when you create a society with a legally protected social group granted with almost royal-like privilege...

...you end up with ‘good negros’ that feel entitled the rob and burglarize.

[PGR88]

The article makes a lot of assumptions.

IMHO - it was probably some kind of drug-deal gone bad, or an altercation between two groups of gangs/thugs with chips on their shoulders.

[Thank You Rush]

“”According to Howard’s statement, Tusan was majoring in Leisure Studies.””

Huh? That’s a new one for me. Leisure as in “what to do when you’re home for the holidays?”