Sean Taylor Coverage

Interesting article on the death of Redskins safety Sean Taylor.

My response

I too have a checkered past, I fought & was suspended & high most of freshmen year in high school, but if my death is newsworthy it should be about whatever claim to fame I had. There certainly hasn't been much mention, of hTaylor's football career. Not enough coverage for my taste on how he bled to death & how long did the ambulance take to get there. The repeated million dollar question "what was he doing in Miami?" was also disrespectful, he was injured, and free to be wherever certainly at home with his daughter. The coverage & that article says pretty much he deserved what he got, for being at home with girlfriend and baby. Were Paris Hilton to be raped, beaten to death how much, live by the sword die by the sword, pushed sexy in life until sex pushed death, rhetoric should we expect?
If a white man in Jersey is a gunned down in his home, do we blame the Sopranos? We live in a violent country, 18 year olds dying in Iraq, quick-draw cowboy president, try watching TV without violence, & I was raised on it, cause my folks were working all the time. Black folks don't corner the market on violence, or misogyny, that's American, poor white people are known for violence & misogyny as well, compound that with oppression, greater, poverty, & less access to adequate eduction & it will of course be amplified. This is not evident of a black KKK, the KKK killed out of hatred & fear, how many thugs on the block do you know with enough self hatred to endure the stench of burning flesh? A black KKK would have killed Taylor, burned the house to the ground & forced his wife & child to watch, then put the charred remains on display. I didn't hear any of that in the report. I see that term as nothing more than inflammatory exagerration.
Indeed we do have problems we most certainly need to fix, hip hop needs to change & our people need to change, for sure, but recurring scathing, commentary & inflammatory name calling from the middle class, isn't going to get it. How very crabs in a barrel is that? Early in the article Whitlock says " Someone who loved Sean Taylor is crying right now.", I'm sure it's more than just one, I know some die hard Skins fan, who are having a hard time, this article probably didn't do much for healing. Those in mourning for their loved one, teammate, or favored player, were probably hoping for respect at least from black media