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Or if he didn't get hurt against the Eagles.

 

Why is the girlfriend still alive?

I can't get past this.

 

The logic is unassailable.

I love the way he looked at himself and undercut so many flimsy critics with his graph on the fat man.

That's the way you defuse those fuckers and make them listen.

 

yeah, the guy wrote the shit out of that.

 

whitlock's rant is troublesome.

yes, there is a pathology in black culture.
300 years of slavery and 100 years of segregation will do that.

but he's just telling half of the story.
the black middle class has hugely expanded.
in 40 years since MLK they have joined the cultural mainstream - whitlock himself is an example of this.

that's 40 years of recovery after 400 years of abuse.

it's easy to demagogue hip-hop culture. makes for an easy column - and in whitlock's case, over and over and over...

but even at that he's painting with a broad brush - hip-hop is nuanced and niched - it's not all gangstas and ho's and he knows it

this story is about football players - and the kind of mentality it takes to play a violent game - and why that mentality leads to violence off the field

whitlock played football - he knows about violence - words can be violent, too

 

So, one was to stalk, the other was to kill. This is not unprecedented. And didn't someone post the police report about the "knife on the bed" story?

 

What on earth is this about? You complained about Whitlock using a broad brush and then this? And what does this have to do with anything?

 

And how many Presidents played football in either high school or college?

You can play the game violently, but playing the game does not make you violent.

 

Oh, I think there are more than a few studies, and a whole potful of anecdotal evidence, that what is required to play football at the highest levels is a powerful inducement to become a violent person.

 

Violent people certainly find a home in the NFL.

But ... pro football is an "inducement" to become violent? No fucking way.

A grand majority of NFL alumni, even among only the black members, are citizens who have never hurt a soul except for between the lines potentially.

 

Yeahhhhhhhhhhh, that's the ticket.

 

I'm guessing a lot of these guys who the study notes were made violent by the NFL were probably violent the day the set foot into middle school or into kindergarten way back when.

Not all studies are correct.

Many more studies will show that violence is formed in the home when a youngster is between the ages of 0-5. You see a woman screaming and hitting a two-year-old in Wal Mart? Guess what that kid is going to do when confronted with a problem as an adult? Scream and hit. You see daddy back handing mom or grabbing her? Guess what? You see mommy stealing? You see daddy hurting other people? Guess what?

It's a wicked cycle that gets passed down from generation to generation, and the only cure is education, patience and time. A lot of time.