[BigSkyFreeper]

If he had conducted himself better in life, he might have gotten more praise.

I guess when we live in a society that praises thuggery and outlandish behavior from the likes of MTV, everyone who buys into that garbage develops a thin skin and go off half-cocked when unpolitically correct folks like myself smack them in the face with reality.

[ConYoungBlack]

"If he had conducted himself better in life, he might have gotten more praise.

I guess when we live in a society that praises thuggery and outlandish behavior from the likes of MTV, everyone who buys into that garbage develops a thin skin and go off half-cocked when unpolitically correct folks like myself smack them in the face with reality."

Then be mad at the culture that promoyes this stuff, not the young man that lay in wake with toe tags on him. Obviously this young man (foolishly) thought that his only way out of profound poverty was to misuse his obvious talents. But I can't justify being happy that he's dead because of his misjudgement. Liberal policies and emocrat social programs have turned out young men like him, a hundred at a time. It's one reason why I am a young black conservative today. But this underlying hatred of anything that seems connected to the other side of the culture war, and specifically the young blacks role in that opposing side, is not helpful to the cause of recruiting and engaging the minds of more young black men and women in hopes of gaining them in our (conservative) ranks.

It's this little pettiness, that gives them the (false) ammo to cry that "all conservatives are racists". And the mentality in question is one in many reasons why my fight to convince many more young blacks has been a failutr.