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Originally Posted by pg86
One more thing damnit.
IF music can talk to you and it glorifies so much murder (BTW I listen to rock not rap)
Why not blame it when and if they do catch the person that did this. Then you can go and dig up Tupac or Biggie, or whoever it is that is alive today saying shoot this die fucker die and charge them with murder?
Im sorry but when I hear crap like that I scream get real and Bullshit!.
Ok I'll admit I listen to alot of emo...so if some kid cut his wrists because Hawthorne Heights said cut my writs and black my eyes, can we blame them for his self destructive behavior? Think about it if you still don't get where Im getting at here Im saying we can't blame a musical artist or a genre of music for peoples Deaths. Humanity is simply that cruel and they seek to hurt one another!
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The cultural phenomena that drives our kids to say "F... you" instead of "Ma'am" and "Sir" is also driving our children to death in the streets. It may be now that the effects are felt more in the black community than in the white community, but sociopathic meanness is infecting the communities of people in the U.S.A. of all races. There's a general lack of respect for human beings and human life.
It doesn't help that the country has descended again to the death penalty, which makes taking a life seem acceptable behavior, or that a moron has lead us into a murderous and elective war complete with cluster bombs and torture, previously thought unthinkable; or that the justice system is a sham; or that our politicians are utterly corrupt and/or shameless liars; or that religious leaders are sexual perverts.
Rolle says that Taylor was afraid in Miami on an on-going basis and that the murder was connected to jealousy of Taylor and anger against him because he was stepping away socially from former unsavory friends.
I don't know, of course, but that's the most likely senario to me. If I were a police investigator, that's the first possibility I would pursue.
As for the larger question, I don't know exactly what to do to turn back this avalanche of meanness coming at us. I do think that the current amoral and huckster character of our traditional institutions such as church and state and schools and the Bill of Rights (as well as equal rights) are a big part of our children's loss of respect for us and that's a big part of why they're no longer saying Ma'am and Sir.
They're blaming us for the mess we've made. And we have. We didn't kill Sean Taylor, but we created the monsters who did.