Sean Taylor used to play professional football for the Washington Redskins. He used to play before someone shot and killed him. They destroyed an 18-month olds father and possibly that child’s life as well. Speculation surrounding the case is that this is a black-on-black crime. Sean had a troubled past with his friends that he used to hang around. His behavior with his coaches, his run-ins with the law, which included allegedly threatening a man with a loaded gun, and also a vehicle that he owned was shot at, should all be looked at when examining this case.
The leading causes of death of black men in the United States are murders, incarceration, and ignorance. Statistics have shown that when a black man in the United States is shot, another black man has pulled the trigger. It seems that when a white man shoots a black man, or when a black man shoots a white man, societies jump all over the situation and is outraged because it must be a hate crime! This is a hate crime. Because of Sean Taylor’s troubled past and his current “keepin’ real” attitude towards life and the people in his life. He irritated someone who kept it a bit more real. That person hated him so much because the “gangsta” persona that Sean had was making him look bad.
Society should look at the big picture that this way of life for young black males may be brought on by listening to hip hop songs rhyming about how hard they are, or all the people they murdered and will murder. Keeping this persona is what is teaching younger black males to start disrespecting each other and live the “gangsta” life even if they are high-profile athletes with lots of money and a college education. It is teaching that it is not okay to speak proper English, embrace education, dress like a grown man or do anything mainstream. Society is looking past the fact that the way the black culture celebrates murders in hip-hop may very well be the reason why there are so many hate crimes of a black man killing other...