First of all, I’m glad Nikki Giovanni did not get shot. That was selfish and insensitive to those who lost their lives but it’s the truth. Secondly, no where is safe. High School hasn’t been safe for quite some time but now college is also te devil’s stomping ground.

I can not understand what it is about personal demons that compell us to take others down with us.

He killed himself. If you feel weak enough to yield to those thoughts what gratification is there in taking others with you?

I know you can not explain irrational acts but this is a drastic time when our weaknesses are becoming more a danger to others than ourselves.

Ironically we are still fighting social injustices, civil injustices, racial injustices, but there is a battle of wills going on that we are obviously losing.

I say we because its not a them in these tragdies. Every race is being affected. Its not Black or White, it’s Human Beings being killed.

She was only 19. She had plans of becoming a Technical Engineer. Her mom called her early that morning because she just wanted to hear her voice. Good thing too because she was almost late for class. She started not to go but she remembers slackers don’t get far so she threw on some sweats, grabbed her books and headed to class. She didn’t really know what was happening since it all happened so fast. She wasn’t the first to be shot, nor was she the last. She didn’t leave instantly, her life lingered some seconds before she was called home. Her last thought was of her mother, good thing she had had a chance to talk to her that morning.

Funny, most people still worried about rap music and Don Imus.

Do I think Imus is racist? No. I think he was looking to do what he was paid to do, shock people. This time he stretched too far and pissed people off. And make sure you understand the only reason he was fired was so NBC and CBS would not lose sponsors. THE ONLY REASON. This is the same man who uses faggot and dyke on regular basis, referred to Venus and Serena and being from an African tribe (because as much as we claim to love mother Africa, this is still looked at as an insult), and as of late, compared Rutgers and Tennessee to Jiggaboos and Wannabees. SOMEWHERE Spike Lee is slapping himself in the face.

I wish I cared more, I swear do. But, I have never been afraid of a racist who made it known he was racist. There are some Black people I don’t like either. Some white. Some green. Some blue. Some Grey. Those Green ones I don’t like solely because they’re green.

The problem isn’t not liking them. The problem is when your dislike or disdain is pushed to violence and prejudicial treatment. This disrupts the natural course of synergy. Some people simply don’t know how to dislike someone and let them coexist. What I don’t like need not be around me. What I don’t believe need not be in my sight.

Was Imus pushing violence or prejudicial treatment? No. He was saying Rutgers women’s team was unattractive and Tennessee’s team was cute? Now everyone who has never made such a statement procede with your anger filled tyrade.

Devil’s Advocate Out.