the george, that made me smile too, i can imagine my boi Sean playing football in Heaven……:O)

He was my favorite player the moment i saw his highlight reel when he got drafted to my favorite team, i wore his jersey to work the day he passed, i will now get a burgundy one to go with my white one and even though i am a Sooners fan i will get a Miami jersey #26 as well, i shed a tear last night for Tha Meast, and will never forget how his gameplay and life positively affeted me……..

Rest In Paradise Meast !!!!!!!!! Love you Bro !

Hangtime

and you’re right. no one’s blaming him. at least not explicitly so.

whether this crime was random or targeted remains to be seen, although what we know so far doesn’t sound random. note that “targeted” is not synonymous with “he deserved it”, it simply means the killer was specifically going after him, and not just entering a random home and shooting someone. In general, I think people are more bothered by random crime, because it’s perceived as less preventable. and for that reason, I think a lot of people, especially rich people living in miami, are kind of hoping this wasn’t random, because it scares them more.

anyway, there may be a lesson to be learned from this situation, or it may have been an unavoidable tragedy. my point is just that we shouldn’t shy away from discussing why it happened because we’re afraid it’ll sound like blaming the victim. no one’s blaming him.

“so if there was some aspect of his life which contributed to what happened, I think it should be discussed, if only because it could help prevent it from happening to someone else. for example, telling women they shouldn’t walk alone at night isn’t implying that if they do and get raped, it’s somehow their fault… it’s just emphasizing that we need to be cautious.”

Sure, if there is some aspect of Sean’s life that motivated someone to murder him, perhaps there’s a lesson to be learned. I assure you, however, that if said aspect of his life exists, it won’t get revealed to the world by the internet sleuthing of KSK commenters. Why don’t we actually WAIT until that actually comes to light instead of pouncing on a storyline that has yet to develop? What happens if it turns out to be a random home robbery gone bad? The lesson is… don’t own homes? What if it turns out that the people responsible were the ones who took his ATVs. The lesson is… don’t get robbed?

Maybe it will come to light that the person who killed Sean Taylor was doing so in response to something horrible Taylor had done to him. That won’t make it right, but that might mean there’s a lesson. But instead of presuming that Taylor, murdered victim, was wrong, you should at least wait for that set of facts to come to light. Or else it’s like telling that woman she shouldn’t go out at night because it will soon be revealed that the last raped woman who went out at night was also a child molester and that had prompted a retaliatory sexual assault by a band of 14 year olds.

You teach lessons by accruing facts and then applying them. You don’t teach lessons by applying facts or insinuations yet discovered.

he was living a lifestyle we can’t understand. he was young, black, rich, and famous in the south. damn near everybody he meets probably wants something from him, and people he never met, too.

the truth is that whatever brought this down upon this man’s home is probably not a part of your life

women can walk alone at night. you just need to be careful where you do it and, in some places, vigilant. i’m saying there are millions of women who can’t safely walk at night where they live. but they do it anyhow because you can’t be a damn prisoner in your own home.

some people want to understand, others want to accuse, most just empathize. few ever actually fucking know.

so if there was some aspect of his life which contributed to what happened, I think it should be discussed, if only because it could help prevent it from happening to someone else. for example, telling women they shouldn’t walk alone at night isn’t implying that if they do and get raped, it’s somehow their fault… it’s just emphasizing that we need to be cautious.

“Um … couldn’t an NFL player afford, you know, a FREAKING ALARM SYSTEM?”

And then you go into a rant about how he’s 24 years old, and all us 24 year olds think we’re invincible. But all of that is useless pig shit garbage, because he DID have an alarm system, it wasn’t engage that evening. Taylor’s girlfriend explained: “she said that here sister had been staying with them and coming and going from the house, so Sharpstein said that may have been why the alarm was not on at that time.”

Source: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/redskinsinsider/2007/11/final_post_of_the_night_i_thin.html

How about, instead of constantly nit-picking some story you don’t have even the available facts on in an effort to find any reason to BLAME THE FUCKING VICTIM, you should direct your psychoanalysis towards the shithead who actually, you know, ENTERED SOMEONE’S HOME AND SHOT THEM. That young or old or who knows person is the one we need to be questioning the judgment of, not the bad ass warrior-beast that defends his home with a machete.

We know your thoughts are with his family. You’re trying to think up a reason to blame them for what happened.

But he was 24, and most 24-year-olds think they’re invincible. I hope it’ll sink into some heads that age is not a magic shield against the shit going down. If one person learns from this, Sean Taylor’s death won’t be in vain.

My thoughts are with his family.

you add your own conjecture and bullshit. as do i.

what you choose to add tells a lot about you. what it says ain’t so good.

and even if you are proven ‘right’, you’ll never get any sort of apology from me.

if you’re going to be an ignoramus, and hide behind a wall of white privilege all your life, at least try to be funny.

in related news, Roger Goddell just suspended Sean Taylor for eight games, for having an unlicensed machete in his house.