First of all WOW! I have gotten good and bad responses from my article. I am amazed how many people resulted to calling me an ####, ####, ####, uneducated hoodlum, and ignorant. I also had people commend me saying things like right on, good job, great article, and fantastic. Some people agreed with parts of my article and disagreed with other parts.

I need to clarify my position. I even had people say that I was the epitemy of what Jason said. NOT! I need to start by clarifying why I chose the name of my profile. When I went back to Birmingham where I grew up, I was harassed pulled over and by a police when I was not doing a thing. He made a statement that an expensive car did not change that I was a hoodlum. My response was “I MAY BE A HOODLUM BUT I AM AN EDUCATED HOOLUM”. I was waiting on a politician at an area where we were building affordable housing. My friends liked the name and continued to joke me about it.

I am proud of the fact that I am one of the few to get out of that neighborhood alive or not in jail. I frequently go back and contribute to that community as well as the one that I live in.

Now for the people who think that I condone crime. You are all idiots! I was simply using an analogy that a majority of those crimes are committed by people in need and impoverished. I guess I needed to be a LITTLE bit more SIMPLE! Yes drug dealers and users commit a majority of these crimes but if Jason is going to generalize a culture then I felt that I needed to be on his level. I also had someone talk about the fact that I mentioned Bill Cosby and Oprah. I simply stated the truth they both have a lot of charities and scholarships, but not in the communities where they are needed. Do me a favor and go find out what it takes to get the scholarship from the Cosby’s foundation. Also is there enough children in the U.S. that could use a school or help.

The kids in the ####/projects do not get the same abilities as everyone else. Yes there are good teachers that care there but not enough. It you cannot start there then you cannot stop the crime when kids drop out of school. I WANTED TO SEE JASON’S NON PROFIIT AND PHILANTHROPY AND WHEN HAS HE GONE BACK TO HIS HOOD? To think that the hip-hop culture causes violence and call it the new #### is atrocious of a black man to say! Now I would not have been as bad on him if he did not continuously make these types of statements. How can you blame a social economical problem on one culture?

Well we need to run and tell corporate America to stop the commercial, video games, background music on almost all sporting events and the millions of dollars in revenue. Did you know that “did you know that studies say that white kids between the ages of 13 and 24 buys the majority of hip hop music”. I even had a guy debate my stats on serial killers (by the way thanks to the brotha that correct him), at least look them up! I was not using exact numbers because we don’t and will never know them. But I bet im closer than you.

Lets be real, Jason Whitlock is an ####, and all of you who said that I was wrong for calling him a name – Go in your bathroom look in the mirror and then say – I have never called anyone a name! It has nothing to do with my education, he made the wrong statement at the wrong time.

I have a motto – don’t make a complaint without the suggestion of a solution!!

A response to Taylor

First of all thanks Toni for introducing me to this forum.

Now Jason Whitlock is the epidemy of why there is black on black crime.  The only problem is there was absolutely no reason to turn this childs tragic death into a race issue.  Everything is not about race it's actually about people.  Jason, did you go and march for the "Jena Six"?  Did you go to Virginia when the sister got mutilated and abused alive?  How about call Imus when he called your sisters Nappy headed H)(*&!

Well you did not show up because it was not a photo op for you.  It was not a situation good enough for you to put your status and hat in the ring.  Instead you sit your fat but behind a computer and bash the very existence that you came from.  Forget Jim Crow, forget the K K K, forget the government and their fake programs.  We need to prosecute people like you, Bill Cosby, and all the other "ANTI - NEGRO - #### with money that only criticize and bring down the already suffering African American Male.

Yes - Blacks do kill Blacks.  "Wait side note"  there are over 150 white serial killers in the last two centuries without a clue of the amount of murders they have commited. WAIT!  95%of all crimes commited in the U.S. were not commited by young black men.  Oh yeah - Blacks Males crowd our prison system, most our children are born out of wedlock, most of our crimes are violent!  True - True - But you know what?  Most of our crimes are done to make money. HMMMMMM

Drug dealing, armed robbery-people, bank robbery, convienience stores, gas stations, barber shops you know.  Quick cash so i can feed my family.  You know i don't have a job, education, support system, mentor, OH, but i do have the projects , the cops that steal from me what i stole, the Black Businessmen who lock their doors when i ask for a job.

See the Anti Negro-Negro just sits back and say look at those fools they are kiiling themselves.  look at those fools they are commiting genecide, look at those fools that friend of his will one day kill him!  The Anti-Negro Negro- sometimes gives to charities but never participate, they never help in the community where it counts, they leave and sometimes never come back.  The Anti Negro - Negro will see an old school mate and not remember his name. My Negro- My Anti Negro.  Thanks for your help.

Jason, no one is dismissing Mr Taylors life, but let the family remember him for what was happening now not years ago.  The media has a bad habit of needing to find dirt.  Can't they use the same energy to find good.  When a person dies do they put a picture on the obiturary of the bloody mess of the death or do they use an old high school picture, military picture, or a wedding picture.  People want to remember the good.  How about you when you go do you want your fat bald head or another pic?

There is a way to change the society but no one wants to,  start in the schools where teachers are only working for paychecks, start with job training, mentoring, build development programs that trains people how to own their own business, give them start up money.  See you Negros keep your money.  In Miami you can get off of a boat from Cuba and in a week have a lexus, a job, and better clothes than us.  Because their people are sharing. Bill Cosby gives out scholarships, but only after you survive the Hood.  Oprah, well i know about 2 million children in the U.S. that can use a good school.  Jason he, well he, ummm, well you know he did something.

There is a reason why the police in South Florida are getting murdered (not to say that is right - which it is not), let's see, a police gets arrested every week in Miami for rape, robbery, assault, or conspiracy.  The sheriff went to prison, the police chief got fired, politicians are going to jail, one killed himself when he got caught.  Get your facts right and GET BACK BLACK!