The Rocky Mountain Collegian

RAPPERS ADN GUNS: I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS OF GUNS

Guns and protection in the music, travel,rap, hood, and other areas where these men travel are a necessary part of life. What makes it OK for coloradoanss to have guns but not rappers in the black adn inner city neighborhoods who literral live on their tour buses, their home of sort. His attorney and/or body guard should have had the guns registered intheir names and no he shouldn't be shooting it but this is Lill waynes home away from home - his tour bus I mean. The question is, if he were white would he be facing the same charges? the Race card again? No not really - reality. I am in Louisiana and hear of a story where a politician (white) was having a cocaine party adn his girlfriend got pissed and called the police and they came, told him he had two hours to clean up the cocaine and tey would search his ofice afterwards. he result, no charges filed for pounds of powdered cocaine for the white politician. These guys live a hard life for sure adn should obey the law but they have to protect themselves in some of the places they go. For blacks, lets's face it, the rules are different. I have a cousin here who is a lawyer and he represented two high school students - both of them threatened to blow up the school one black - one white. The black male got 5 years in prision and the white male probation and no, neither had prior records worth mentioning. Why the difference. The reality is, policement have a lot of discretion in who they report adn send to prision and a lot of times they have allowed my white friends and colleagues walk where in the same situation, I got a ticket or suspect I would have - ITS THEIR CHOICE AND CALL. Like the football player who ran a red light to see his mother in laqw on her death bed, he was detained aat gun point. Was that racial, I don't know but I suspect the reaction would have been different.

HERE'S A STORY FOR YOU AND YOU DECIDE

I am visiting a frien inLouisiana and helping her with with soem research in the process. We wet to the library to look for some books and I was wearing nice shoes, good casual dress by my standards and a white female (the officer told me) caled the police regrarding a "suspicious black male inthe library" What is a "suspicious looking black male? In her mind is it any black male? all of us? We were searching for Math books for her to write her dissertation proposal in a public university library where the football team is 75% black and there are 1000's of blacks on campus. When the office arrived at the library, I was sittign quietly with a female friend scanning through 3 - 3 inch books, well dressed, adn yet she claimed I looked suspicous. What is a library for, looking for adn reading books right, unless you are black. How did the office handle it, he was such an idiot, I chose to leave an terminated his BS and the interaction, there are other libraries to use, southern University 60 miles away for intance where people "look like me."

My point is, that was a police call. Was the gun registered to Lil Wayne? I do not know. However there are questions that cn be raised about the fairness of him having a gun in him home - travel bus. was the gun his or was he charged because he is Lil Wayne and the officer wanted publicity? I guess we will never know will we, he was a policeman and it was his call. By the way, my sister is a cop / policewoman so do accuse me of poile bashing, they have a hard life ,a lot to deal with, adn reasons for "SOME" of their actions but race drives some to do things to minorities they would not do if the person was white instead of Mexican, black, Hispanic, Native, or Asians.

Not to worry, Lil wayne will make a load of money from the lyrics he rwrites and the publicity he gets, like R kelly, just mo money in his pocket. He will be better off than us if he survives the pen.

JUST SOME THOUGHtS, GLAD YOU ARE STILL SUPPORTING HIM!! Excuse any mistakes - rushing.

Peace,

lester

They should both be locked up for their efforts to destroy hip-hop.

Let me start by saying I am by no means a fan of rap. What they say may be "real" in some cases, but if a white person said half the crap about black people that rappers say about white people they wouldn't even be given a shot in the industry. I think a lot of what is said in the lyrics is tasteless as well. But again, that's just my opinion and I know many, many people disagree.

To the case at hand. I think it's horse sh*t that these guys are in/will soon be in jail. I could care less if someone has a gun in his tour bus. It doesn't matter if he's going down the richest streets in Hollywood or the nastiest hood down Compton. If a guy has a gun, so be it. None of my business until he's waving it around.

To Lester:

First of all, and I know you were in a rush, it's "and" not "adn". Sorry that just got on my nerves :D. I'm not sure about the story of the white politician being given time to clean up his "coke party", I've never heard of it so I really can't comment on it. If it did happen it is dispicable to every degree imaginable.

As for what happened to Ryan Moats, the football player in the incident where he was not allowed to see his mother-in-law, I agreed with the cop until he was told what the situation was. At that point he should've apologized and escorted the Moats family. I don't know if race had anything to do with it or if the cop was just having a horrible day or what, but it was an extremely stupid thing he did. I have heard, however, that he has since apologized to the Moats family, not that that takes away his foolish act, and that it was not something forced upon him by his superiors, since he has since resigned.

And for what happened to you at the library, that's just idiotic. I'm sorry it happened. I can't say that I can fully understand what happened but I do live in a city where being white is being the minority. Now I better understand some of the frustrations minorities have faced. I am constantly stared at and people immediately assume I'm a racist white supremecist, which can't be any further from the truth.

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