this whole case just continues to make me feel worse. it's almost as if it would be easier for me to accept that someone went there with the intention of harming him, because at least it wouldn't seem as random, accidental or preventable. but everything that went wrong for Sean Taylor did and it cost him his life -- had he just stayed in Washington to rehab, had they simply realized he was home and left, etc.
Thank you sir.... unfortunately because of the high profile nature of this tradgedy, we may never really know the whole story.....just a damn shame
The cops are saying now the lines were not cut. That idea came because the gf had trouble calling 911 and wound up using a cell phone. Not sure whether the bedroom phone had been disconnected, or she just panicked, or what, but apparently the house phones were intact. Dogs would have made a great deterrent, as some have observed. Sean kept several pit bulls on the premises. However, an 18-month old child and pit bulls aren't a good mix and he recently got rid off them. Shoulda woulda coulda. Another thing to make you bang your head against the wall: because of the break-in last week, Sean closed the shutters on the house as a small measure of protection for the jimmied windows. Those shutters no doubt helped convince the intruders that the house was unoccupied.
Heres a picture of 2 of the 4 Venjah Hunte, 20, front, and Charles Wardlow, 18, rear, appear via closed circuit television at the Lee County Justice Center on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2007 in Fort Myers, Fla. Hunte, Wardlow and two others were arrested Friday in connection with the shooting death of Washington Redskins football player Sean Taylor. (AP Photo/ Stephen Hayford, Pool)
Pit bulls are fine with their owners. I had one that was as vicious at Michael Vick's dogs, but it couldn't handle my 7-pound cat. I figured the reason Taylor did not have dogs at the house was because he wasn't there often enough to care for them. I understand he and his girlfriend also had a home in Virginia.
Actually, I heard second hand that the kid was the reason he removed the dogs, I don't know for sure that was why. I also heard one of the neighbors said the dogs were always burrowing under the fence so that might have been a factor also. You might be right about the pit bulls. My little sister had one for years with no problems. But with a toddler around, I'm not betting a child's life on it.
I read this and was like...wow! But Whitlock does get away with a lot of controversy, so this fits. Taylor's death a grim reminder for us all Jason Whitlock FOXSports.com, Updated 23 hours ago EDITOR'S NOTE: This column originally appeared Wednesday, two days before Friday's arrests of four men in the shooting death of Sean Taylor. There's a reason I call them the Black KKK. The pain, the fear and the destruction are all the same. Someone who loved Sean Taylor is crying right now. The life they knew has been destroyed, an 18-month-old baby lost her father, and, if you're a black man living in America, you've been reminded once again that your life is in constant jeopardy of violent death. The Black KKK claimed another victim, a high-profile professional football player with a checkered past this time. No, we don't know for certain the circumstances surrounding Taylor's death. I could very well be proven wrong for engaging in this sort of aggressive speculation. But it's no different than if you saw a fat man fall to the ground clutching his chest. You'd assume a heart attack, and you'd know, no matter the cause, the man needed to lose weight. Well, when shots are fired and a black man hits the pavement, there's every statistical reason to believe another black man pulled the trigger. That's not some negative, unfair stereotype. It's a reality we've been living with, tolerating and rationalizing for far too long. When the traditional, white KKK lynched, terrorized and intimidated black folks at a slower rate than its modern-day dark-skinned replacement, at least we had the good sense to be outraged and in no mood to contemplate rationalizations or be fooled by distractions. Our new millennium strategy is to pray the Black KKK goes away or ignores us. How's that working? About as well as the attempt to shift attention away from this uniquely African-American crisis by focusing on an "injustice" the white media allegedly perpetrated against Sean Taylor. Within hours of his death, there was a story circulating that members of the black press were complaining that news outlets were disrespecting Taylor's victimhood by reporting on his troubled past No disrespect to Taylor, but he controlled the way he would be remembered by the way he lived. His immature, undisciplined behavior with his employer, his run-ins with law enforcement, which included allegedly threatening a man with a loaded gun, and the fact a vehicle he owned was once sprayed with bullets are all pertinent details when you've been murdered. Marcellus Wiley, a former NFL player, made the radio circuit Wednesday, singing the tune that athletes are targets. That was his explanation for the murders of Taylor and Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams and the armed robberies of NBA players Antoine Walker and Eddy Curry. Really? Let's cut through the bull(manure) and deal with reality. Black men are targets of black men. Period. Go check the coroner's office and talk with a police detective. These bullets aren't checking W-2s. Rather than whine about white folks' insensitivity or reserve a special place of sorrow for rich athletes, we'd be better served mustering the kind of outrage and courage it took in the 1950s and 1960s to stop the white KKK from hanging black men from trees. But we don't want to deal with ourselves. We take great joy in prescribing medicine to cure the hate in other people's hearts. Meanwhile, our self-hatred, on full display for the world to see, remains untreated, undiagnosed and unrepentant. Our self-hatred has been set to music and reinforced by a pervasive culture that promotes a crab-in-barrel mentality. You're damn straight I blame hip hop for playing a role in the genocide of American black men. When your leading causes of death and dysfunction are murder, ignorance and incarceration, there's no reason to give a free pass to a culture that celebrates murder, ignorance and incarceration. Make your voice heard... This story has touched off some very spirited debate. If you would like to join in, it is being discussed on our community page. Of course there are other catalysts, but until we recapture the minds of black youth, convince them that it's not OK to "super man dat ho" and end any and every dispute by "cocking on your bitch," nothing will change. Does a Soulja Boy want an education? HBO did a fascinating documentary on Little Rock Central High School, the Arkansas school that required the National Guard so that nine black kids could attend in the 1950s. Fifty years later, the school is one of the nation's best in terms of funding and educational opportunities. It's 60 percent black and located in a poor black community. Watch the documentary and ask yourself why nine poor kids in the '50s risked their lives to get a good education and a thousand poor black kids today ignore the opportunity that is served to them on a platter. Blame drugs, blame Ronald Reagan, blame George Bush, blame it on the rain or whatever. There's only one group of people who can change the rotten, anti-education, pro-violence culture our kids have adopted. We have to do it. According to reports, Sean Taylor had difficulty breaking free from the unsavory characters he associated with during his youth. The "keepin' it real" mantra of hip hop is in direct defiance to evolution. There's always someone ready to tell you you're selling out if you move away from the immature and dangerous activities you used to do, you're selling out if you speak proper English, embrace education, dress like a grown man, do anything mainstream. The Black KKK is enforcing the same crippling standards as its parent organization. It wants to keep black men in their place ? uneducated, outside the mainstream and six feet deep. In all likelihood, the Black Klan and its mentality buried Sean Taylor, and any black man or boy reading this could be next.
Radio coverage of the pre-game ceremony, and remembering Sean Taylor has started, and can be streamed at http://www.xxxespnradio.com/
Wow Cane, thats nice, I really need to get into Photoshop. It looks like it would be so much fun. Back to Taylor however, That is an absolutely amazing article about the Black KKK. and it's the truth, we don't do anything, and we just let gangs keep killing each other, and sadly we even enjoy movies about gangs and murder. Honestly we need to find a way to "clean up the streets" because our attempts so far, have done no good at all.
Yeah, it is nice. I didnt do it, though. I just took it off a Canes board. Here's another nice one- too big to display here- it will mess up the margins of the thread. http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/3189/seantaylorwpqd4.jpg and from a Skins board
Today his death has really hit me hard. Watching Redskins pregame, thinking how he will never play again and what a great talent he was. It is just very sad. Good luck to the Redskins today against the Bills. Those fans look ready to watch a good game, although everyone at FedEx Field is filled with heavy hearts. My thoughts and prayers continue to go out to the Taylor family.
CBS is planning to show the Redskins pregame from 12:50-1 ET for anyone interested Rest in peace Sean:sad:
Nice touch by the 'Skins D Going out with 10 men on D. http://www.nfl.com/videos?videoId=09000d5d804bcab3
At Sean Taylor Funeral, Loud Applause For Saying Media 'Should Be Ashamed' Posted Dec 3rd 2007 1:32PM by Michael David Smith Filed under: Redskins, Washington, DC http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2007...ause-for-saying-media/?ncid=NWS00010000000001 Yesterday Redskins safety Sean Taylor was remembered at FedEx Field (above) when the Redskins played the Bills. Today Taylor was remembered in a funeral service at the Florida International University arena. Otis Wallace, the mayor of Florida City, Florida, spoke at the service, and he had harsh words for the members of the media who wrote about troubles in Taylor's life in the days after he was shot. Wallace, who has known Taylor for years and works with Taylor's father, the police chief in Florida City, said that if any good could come of Taylor's death, he hoped it would be "the media getting a small lesson in grace and humility." Wallace then said of reporters who suggested that Taylor's actions had put him in a position to get shot, "They should be ashamed." That got a loud standing ovation, the most enthusiastic response from the crowd all day. Wallace did not mention any members of the media by name, but Washington Post writers Mike Wilbon and Leonard Shapiro have both faced heavy criticism for writing negatively about Taylor after he was shot.
PTI just spent the first three minutes of the show talking about the Skins, Gibbs, the penalty, the missing man formation, and NOT ONE WORD of contrition out of that BUM for his rude, ignorant, out-of turn statements he made last week about Sean Taylor. If he really had any class, he would have used his pulpit to issue a mea culpa. No class= no mea culpa. Boo! ************************************ The funeral was very emotional and moving. Here is a link for replays of most of the key speakers, at the upper right of the screen. http://cbs4.com/
I saw a show last night and there were 4 hacks talking about the same thing and defending Wilbon to a point saying they just report whats there. But on this occasion should have waited until THE FACTS CAME OUT.
I made a similar post on a Skins board, and one clueless poster keeps defending Wilbum. I think the guy is his boyfrind, LOL. Apparently, not only did Wilbum disparage Taylor on PTI last week, he also wrote an unflattering column about him, and talked bad about him in his chat room on the Washington Post page. So, he kinda backed off his comments in his chat room yesterday, YET couldnt bring himself to do the same in his column or on PTI, which reaches a much larger audience. I used to like the guy, but he has shown his true colors. He could have waited at least until the body was in the ground, but NOOOOO, he chose to be a vulture about it. Wilbum has a lost a fan- me.
