Its so much shade being thrown by our own kind to one another it sickens me... Scarface the rapper has a song called "Never," he raps: I'll never talk a n*gga down/ do yo' thang dawg/Never hate a dude for tryin, that's insane dawg. A Fox Sports Writer by the name of Jason Whitlock whom I've followed over the years recently stated that "Jay Z is somehow responsible for the alleged criminal actions of Aaron
Hernandez." He believes that "poisonous Hollywood culture has overtaken
athletic culture in sports, and sent our beloved sporting pastimes to
derailment." When it all fails, blame Jay-Z right?! Statements like this do not surprise me, some people remain in the "blame my brother" mentality. Whitlock also took his statement further,"Al Capone is a bigger deal than Babe Ruth. Aaron Hernandez is a
reflection of where we are as a society," writes Whitlock. "Like Allen
Iverson and an endless plethora of fatherless and directionless modern
athletes since the end of Michael Jordan's reign, Hernandez saw his
athletic gifts as a platform to represent where he was from, not where
he hoped to go. He repaid the 860. He kept it real. He stayed true to
his boyz from the 'hood. He mimicked the mindset of the pop-culture
icons we celebrate today. Jay Z is the new gold standard. The whole
sports world played along with Jigga Man's charade of NBA ownership. Now
Kevin Durant and other athletes are flocking to Hova's sports agency.
An unrepentant, flamboyant former drug dealer has the White House,
President Obama-stamped seal of approval...Rappers and musicians are
rebels. They look normal in prison tattoos and white Ts. We can no
longer distinguish bad from good. We no longer even aspire to be good;
it has considerably less value. That's what Aaron Hernandez represents,
to me."
Now this is where I see a problem... if Hernandez saw his athletic platform to represent where he was from and not where he hoped to go blame him for not seeing the big picture because from timeless interviews and music Jay-Z has shown the climb of how you can go from being an unrepentant & flamboyant ex drug dealer to one of the most successful black males, he didn't put limits on his past to stain his future, just because I did those things does not mean I can not be one of those guys, just because I sold drugs does that mean its impossible for him to be a positive role model? Am I not fit to represent and advise a culture of young athletes that have been used by the system throughout history? Everybody, not all but majority of the crabs in the bucket too scared to be their greatest so when they see somebody "clash through glass ceilings, and break through closed doors," its foriegn! A glass ceiling is an unseen, yet unbreakable barrier keeping minorities from rising to the upper echelons of society. Why You Mad!!
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Now this is where I see a problem... if Hernandez saw his athletic platform to represent where he was from and not where he hoped to go blame him for not seeing the big picture because from timeless interviews and music Jay-Z has shown the climb of how you can go from being an unrepentant & flamboyant ex drug dealer to one of the most successful black males, he didn't put limits on his past to stain his future, just because I did those things does not mean I can not be one of those guys, just because I sold drugs does that mean its impossible for him to be a positive role model? Am I not fit to represent and advise a culture of young athletes that have been used by the system throughout history? Everybody, not all but majority of the crabs in the bucket too scared to be their greatest so when they see somebody "clash through glass ceilings, and break through closed doors," its foriegn! A glass ceiling is an unseen, yet unbreakable barrier keeping minorities from rising to the upper echelons of society. Why You Mad!!
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