Man who drove car into SXSW festival was wannabe rapper with six kids

Washington Post ^ | 3/14/14

[SoFloFreeper]

The man being held in Austin for that fatal car assault at the South by Southwest festival was in town to perform during it, according to reports.

Rashad Charjuan Owens, 21, is an aspiring rapper who goes by the name KillingAllBeatz or K.A.B254. Mixes, posted on a SoundCloud account that matches his rapper name and mugshot, have attracted scores of comments in the past 24 hours.

[12th_Monkey]

Tracy Chapman was at South by Southwest??

Man, they’ll take anyone.

So, this is a big “entertainment” event in Austin, which will bring all the local liberals out. Will the libs that organize this thing put some of their liberal ideals on the line and do something for the families of the dead? The injured? And no, free passes to next years is not an option.

[artichokegrower]

“If I had a son ....”

http://www.heavy.com/news/2014/03/rashad-charjuan-ownes-photos-pictures-sxsw-dui-crash-psuspect/

[MCF]

Maybe, just maybe, WAPO is catching on.

[jimt]

Another heroic Crapper.

Two counts of murder here in Texas won’t be real good for his career when he’s convicted and on death row.

[Monmouth78]

“Back before the Great Society blacks were significantly less likely to get divorced than whites.”

I don’t know if that is true or not, but I do know that out of wedlock children(outside kids) and other nontraditional family arrangements were much more common among black Americans than white Americans long before the 1960’s.

Before the 1960’s, there was a lot of dishonesty towards welfare workers and other nosey authority figures who came to ask questions about things like who the children’s father was and if the man living there was the man the woman was legally married to.

There is a sociological book called “The Promised Land” that is often assigned in college history classes about the migration of blacks to Chicago that goes into detail about this. Apparently, there was always a portion of the black population in the South that lived the kind of life style we now associate with welfare and the Maury Povich show. The difference was that the people who lived like this were not so in your face about it and were a much smaller, but still significant, portion of the black population.

Some academics who have looked into this have concluded that the increase in things like illegitimate children and children by multiple partners was largely a matter of the portion of the population that had always lived this way having many more children than the get married, stay married types, rather than people who were raised in stable families going out and getting a bunch of baby daddies/baby mommas. I’m not sure which scenario is more disturbing.

Note that the % of white children who are the product of baby mommas and baby daddies has skyrocketed and is now around 30%. That’s way higher than the rate in the black community was in the 1950’s, even allowing for underreporting.

[17th Miss Regt]

Six is a good bet.

[Vaquero]

What about the decline of the black family? In 1960, only 28 percent of black females between the ages of 15 and 44 were never married. Today, it's 56 percent. In 1940, the illegitimacy rate among blacks was 19 percent, in 1960, 22 percent, and today, it's 70 percent. Some argue that the state of the black family is the result of the legacy of slavery, discrimination and poverty. That has to be nonsense. A study of 1880 family structure in Philadelphia shows that three-quarters of black families were nuclear families, comprised of two parents and children. In New York City in 1925, 85 percent of kin-related black households had two parents. In fact, according to Herbert Gutman in “The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom: 1750-1925,” “Five in six children under the age of 6 lived with both parents.” Therefore, if one argues that what we see today is a result of a legacy of slavery, discrimination and poverty, what's the explanation for stronger black families at a time much closer to slavery — a time of much greater discrimination and of much greater poverty? I think that a good part of the answer is there were no welfare and Great Society programs.

Walter Williams

[A CA Guy]

He picked a bad time to not give up sex, drugs and stupidity.
Six kids at 21 with no nongovernmental support? Omg!

[OldPossum]

Does anyone name their kids Max , Sam or Joe anymore?

What country do they think they live in ?

With regard to question #1, I think the answer among his tribe is a resounding "no"!

With regard to question #2, the answer is not the country you and I grew up in. Unfortunately--and tragically--that country is no more.

It was nice, very nice, to have been a part of it. I don't know how old you are but I am 73 and I got to see some of the best times. Like many other oldsters, we are happy to not have to live the brave new world (to quote Aldous Huxley) that is surely coming.

[OldPossum]

Like many other oldsters, we are happy to not have to live the brave new world (to quote Aldous Huxley) that is surely coming.

To correct a grammatical error and to put in a missing word, it should be "Like many other oldsters, I am happy to not have to live in the brave new world (to quote Aldous Huxley) that is surely coming.

[dfwgator]

How many friggin’ rappers does the world need?

About the same number of folk singers the world needs.

[NormsRevenge]

At least he won’t be alone on Visitor’s day in prison.

[driftless2]

Driftlless the folksinger is available for weddings, graduations, bar mitzvahs, and the odd yak roast.

[nascarnation]

He’s a fertile lil guy ain’t he?

It would be interesting to total up the amounts that Medicaid, EBT, WIC, sect 8, EIC, etc have paid so far to sustain that “family”