A Crying Shame...

This morning, when I checked my email, I always receive Perez Hilton's daily email. I found his article about Dolla, the young rapper who was shot to death in LA on Monday. I read his article. It was so sad what happened to him. Someone just shot him in the head in cold blood then fled. He died in the hospital across the street. After I finished reading the article, I started reading the comments other readers were leaving. I wasn't happy with what I was reading so much that I had to leave a comment as well. I cannot believe how cold and calous people can be. This 21 year old man lost his life, for what reason, we all don't know yet but yet these people were saying, "he's a gangster so he got what he deserved," "he was a black rapper, who cares?" I was so disgusted. Yes, he was mixed black and Puerto Rican, yes he was a rapper, yes he dressed like a gangster. Does that automatically make him a gangster? From what I can tell he wasn't even affiliated with LA gangsters because the man was from Chicago. He flew to LA for business, got off the plane when to the mall to do some shopping, someone shoots him down like a damn dog. Who in the hell does that make him a gangster?? Just because he was a rapper?? I don't think so people. People need to open their closed minds and eyes. This isn't the 1950's and 60's when white people ran ramped over black people. Instead of showing respect for another young life lost, all they could focus on was his race and that he might be a gangster. Never mind the fact that another young person has lost their life senselessly to violence and that he was somebody's brother, cousin or maybe even father. How would these people feel if he was a relative or friend of theirs and people were trashing him like that postmortem? I mean somebody just drove up and shot this 21 year old man in the head! I can't say enough how much this disturbed me. I gotta give credit to the ones that had kind things to say, all the RIP's and prayers for his family. These people don't know him but had that to say, these are the people that are good people and will hopefully do great things for the world someday. No matter whether or not he was a gangster, he was still a human being who deserved to live. It's not someone's will to take life from others. Its not someone's will to judge someone because he's black or in his case partially black. I don't think I'll ever get it. Racism is still alive and probably will be forever. We all just need to learn to get along and care more about others. Please, we all have to do something to stop the violence before it consumes us all. Rest in Peace Roderick Burton.

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