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its sad how little wrong a black man has to do to be considered some sort of thug/gangster, etc. dude was from a middle class family and his dad is a police chief. he had one run in with someone who he thought had stolen his property and so many people are quick to think he must have brought it upon himself when he's gunned down in his own house

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so friggin true. The ESPN column about Taylor "turning his life around" is a complete joke/insult.

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I think there's a lot to this, but what of all of his teammates who talk a lot about how he had matured so much in the last few months? Wilbon made some comments in his chat yesterday that made it sound like he found this relatively unsurprising, and I think he's probably unlikely to write off misbehaving black athletes as thugs. It seems like trying to infer much of anything of his life from what the media says is difficult and unlikely to be correct.