Jason Whitlock column on Taylor

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Originally Posted by SouperMeister

Frankly, it's high time for self-examination and social commentary when a young man like Taylor is snuffed out just when he's getting his life together. If you don't believe that hip hop culture glorifies murder, and de-sensitives black youth on violence, then you're not paying attention. I think that Whitlock is saying that if young black men were killed with today's regularity by the original KKK, there would be moral outrage. You don't sense outrage to the carnage against black men today. Instead, there's a "don't snitch" mentality, again perpetuated by hip hop culture that rationalizes self-genocide. Whitlock and others like Bill Cosby who have the courage to speak up on this issue are spot on.

And unfortunately ridiculed within that community.

I haven't been on this Earth a long time. Less than 30 years but one thing I slowly discovered is the rush to solely blame someone else for one's problems is usually counter-productive for two reasons.

First-
In most situations the root cause of a problem is never singular. One can almost always look inward to find causation. Not sole causation but at least part of the causation. This applies to people and communities. I believe strongly that the black community can look inward and find some causation within for their socioeconmoic and cultural issues they face. Addressing this causation could produce incredible strides toward eliminating the culture of violence and crime.

Second-
In those infrequent cases where there is no apparent causation within one can almost always look within to find solutions to the problems anyways. To look outward is to rely on others to do right by you. I'd rather fix the situation myself even if I didn't have a direct hand in causing it. Again, here the black community can fight this destructive culture that seems to be pervasive without even needing to accept some blame for it's existence. To lay blame outwad and therefore generate expectations that those to blame should fix the problem will never work. It hasn't so far has it?