In Pasadena Texas, Joe Horn saw two men enter his neighbors house with a crowbar. He called 911. When the police did not show up he shot them.

Miguel DeJesus, 38, and Diego Ortiz, 30, died from their wounds.

On the 911 call you can hear his frustration and anger and instead of being passive he took the law into his own hands. Correctly I might add.

I wish he was my neighbor.

Now the New Black Panthers are protesting along with everyone else. For the New Black Panthers and Quanell X to be protesting this one shooting versus the billions of shootings that take place in their own neighborhood is kind of silly. To paraphrase Ice Cube: "Back when we was robbing our own kind, you motherfuckers didn't pay us no mind.". It goes both ways.

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To paraphrase Ice Cube: Back when we was robbing our own kind, you motherfuckers (protesters) didn't pay us no mind!
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Its getting old. If its not Jesse Jackson protesting the Jena 6, The Clearlake 3 furor its Quanell X and the New Black Panthers protesting more criminals.

Where are these people when non-white innocent people get shot and killed in their own neighborhood?  Where are the signs and marches in the streets of the hood to stop the senseless killing there?

I heard on the news the other day, that they think the shooting was racially motivated. Just for grins, lets say it was racially motivated. The best way to not get shot by a racist Joe Horn (if he was) is not to go robbing people in his neigborhood. At that point you wouldn’t have to know whether or not he is a racist. Second, people of other races get to hate white people with impunity and if you question their hatred, you get called a racist yourself.

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If the shooting was racially motivated, the best way to not get shot by Joe Horn is not to rob people next door to him. If your not robbing people it doesn’t matter if he is a racist or not.
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Joe Horn didn't go walking down the street looking for people to kill. They came to his hood and got shot, just as quickly as Joe Horn would have been killed if he walked down the wrong street.

Joe Horn is a hero. If only Blacks and Hispanics would take up arms and defend their own neighborhoods from the criminals around them perhaps their lives would be better.

Nah, as my mother would say, that would be too much like doing right.

Michael Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison today.

Justice was served.

Dear Black Race,

I understand that we as a people are pre-programmed to think that there is racism, or some kind of conspiracy here. However, I have a handy tip for those of us who think the police, white people, the courts and especially Republicans are taking precious moments out of their day to figure out how get them.

Dont engage in illegal activity..

This way when they do try to get you (in your mind or in reality) nothing will happen. I am 40 years old and black and suffice to say, I have avoided jail time by being a law abiding citizen.

However, if I decide to engage in illegal activity like fighting dogs and engage in racketeering, beat up white people for no reason (Jena 6), commit robery (The Clearlake 3 and Joe Horn) I fully expect all of you fly down here and protest until I get out ok?

Thanks for your support!

I usually don't read Ebony Magazine. However, on one particular day, I was at a relatives house and it had Michael Jackson's digitally re-mastered face on it so, as a fan of his in the 80's I decided to check it out.

I then read an article written by Michael Eric Dyson titled "Its Not Only The Jena 6, You Could Be Next!". I was then reminded why I don't read Ebony Magazine.

The article started out well enough talking about how black youth get targeted and how stereotypes help this out. But then, the article disintegrated into foolishness and ignorance. Let me fire some bullets.

• "The much ballyhooed war on drugs in the 1980s was a war on black and brown youth."
  
  I came of age during the 80's and even though due to court-ordered bussing I went to a school that had no less than three gangs in it, I was not arrested during this war. Because of the fact that I and many of my friends did not do or sell drugs, nothing happened. Common sense would tell you, that if you are being targeted for arrest for illegal activity its not a good idea to engage in it. That statement in its entirety is stupid.
  
  
• "Jena 6 should teach young Black males and the rest of us to be vigilant in the fight for justice"
  
  Anyone with half a brain, who would do 5 minutes of research on the whole Jena 6 mess would know it was a string of mostly unrelated incidents cobbled together by the news media and spun out of control by black leaders. Those young men were already on the path to prison. Good Lord.
  
  
• "Never mind the alleged complicity of the Regan Administration in the flooding of poor Black urban communities with crack cocaine to fund an illegal war in Nicaragua"
  
  WTF? Now I give Michael Eric Dyson some credit here, he did use the word alleged. He is not as dumb as that statement would suggest he is. The fact is there is not one shred of evidence that there was any effort by Ronald Regan, or anyone close to him to ensure crack arrived in Black communities. However, I am sure Michael Eric Dyson understands that all he has to do is associate something bad happening in the black communities and use the name of any Republican to get ignorant black people started. Its this kind of rhetoric that perpetuates the tendency of Black people to blame everything on everyone else and especially Republicans.

There is something common between the Jena 6 incident and The Clearlake Three. They were both started by young black men engaging in either assault, attempted murder or some combination of the two. Now ask yourself, if they did not engage in this behavior, would they have gone to jail?

There are times I wish I was old enough or perhaps ignorant enough to understand where all of this kind of crackpot conspiracy foolishness comes from. Perhaps I am out of touch because I did not grow up during the 60's so I can be jaded enough to believe anything that is told to me. Really I don't think so. There are a lot of people in the black community who have a vested interest in making sure foolishness like these rumors, the Jena 6 myth, The Clearlake 3 continue to swirl in the minds of an uninformed populace.

It funds the Civil Rights Industrial Complex, sells magazines, funds churches and pays speakers.

Perhaps, I am in the wrong business. I need some FU money. I think I am going to start a rumor that George W. Bush allegedly had Kanye West's mother killed. Even though theres no evidence and at best circumstantial, its good enough for Black people. Where's Ebony's number? I got something ignorant to say! Im gonna start booking some speeches!