Is Plaxico Burress Getting a Bad Deal?

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mrdaveyd	Is Plaxico Burress Getting a Bad Deal?		Lead	[-]
Posts: 735 12/04/08 05:34:30	Tags : None OPINION: Unnecessary Roughness on Plaxico Burress By Casey Gane-McCalla December 3, 2008 3:22 pm *Plaxico Burress messed up big time. But the media's overreaction to his incident has been just as bad.* http://newsone. blackplanet. com/entertainment/opinion-unnecessary-roughness-on-plaxico-burress/more-49722 For the whole last week, the sports world and the New York media have been crucifying Plaxico Burress. In a city where Wall St. Ceo's have run the city into the dirt, gangbangers kill kids everyday, the educational system is falling apart the New York media has made it seem as if Plaxico Burress was the biggest villain in New York. No doubt Burress was stupid for he did and it was technically illegal but was Burress wrong or immoral for carrying a gun? His teammate Steve Smith was recently robbed at gunpoint, one year earlier, Washington Redskin, Sean Taylor was killed in a home invasion. Cousins, Sebastian Telfair and were both robbed of their Jewelry at gunpoint and Paul Pierce was stabbed 8 years ago in club in Boston. Broncos cornerback, Darrent Williams was shot and killed outside a Denver nightclub while riding in his limousine in 2007 and Oakland receiver Javon Walker was beaten unconscious in Las Vegas in June. He was definitely stupid and clumsy for shooting himself but that's not the crime he was charged with. He was charged with carrying an unlicensed fire arm. Why didn't he have a license do you ask? He was licensed to carry a weapon in Florida, but very few people have a license to carry a concealed firearm in New York. New York is very selective on who it issues gun licenses to. It seem as if all the people in New York are rich famous and white. Some of the people licensed to carry firearms in New York are deejays Howard Stern and Don Imus, actors, Robert Deniro and Harvey Keitel, Donald Trump and his son Donald Junior, businessmen, Tommy Mottola and Senate Majority leader, Joe Bruno. I couldn't find a record of one black person being licensed to carry a concealed firearm in New York City. Despite the large amount of black athletes, businessmen and entertainers who live in and frequent New York. Why don't black athletes and entertainers have permits to carry concealed weapons in New York? Don't they face the same threats as Stern and Imus? Is is that black people don't apply for gun permits or that the board who issues them is racist and doesn't give them to black people? Why is Mike Bloomberg even wasting his time discussing one gun case in New York. It seems like Bloomberg and the New York media are trying to scapegoat Plaxico Burress for New York's gun problems. It seems like the media, court system and politicians are always trying to make black athletes an example to solve problems they are not really addressing. Jack Johnson became a scapegoat for miscegenation, Muhammed Ali became a scapegoat for draft-dodgers, Mike Tyson became a scapegoat for date rape, Darryl Strawberry for cocaine abuse, Ricky Williams for marijuana abuse, OJ Simpson for domestic abuse, Barry Bonds for steroids and Plaxico Burress for gun problems. While prosecuting black athletes in the courtroom and the media, may make an example out of them, it rarely solves any problem. There is not a gun problem in New York because of black athletes carry weapons. There is gun problem because of poverty, drugs and the fact that guns are constantly brought from states like Virginia and sold illegally to people in the inner cities, often to minorities. Bloomberg had confronted gun shops in Virginia before. Now that we have a more progressive government, a Democratic Senator from Virginia, maybe we can do something to get rid the out of state gun laws that flood our innercities with guns. Plaxico Burress is not a threat to society. He didn't have a gun because he was planning on shooting anybody. He just had a gun on him to protect himself in New York, just like Howard Stern, Don Imus and Robert Deniro in a city that doesn't give gun licenses to black people. Recent reports have said that 50% of all NFL athletes carry weapons. My old Columbia University Marcellus Wiley who played in the NFL for 10 years and is now a respected commentator for ESPN admitted that he carried a gun illegally throughout his NFL career. Plaxico Burress deserves punishment under the law, but not the public outcry for his head that thr New York media and its mayor have given him. Given his situation it is understandable if not justified for Burress to be carrying a gun. Making an example out of Plaxico would only put another black man in jail and do nothing to solve the gun problem in New York. Return to Davey D's Hip Hop Corner
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B Lo Tim.politicalpalace	Stop the knee jerk defense	#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 4 12/04/08 10:16:21	The dude had a loaded gun in his sweatpants without a holster and without the safety on. He was in a crowded club while drinking. Color, money, job, none of these things are relevant to me. Very simply put, I don't want someone that irresponsable carying a gun on the same streets I'm on. So the law is carying not stupidity who cares how the system takes him off the streets it just needs to be done. This is a weak knee jerk defense of a person based solely on race. Of all the non related crimes against black athletes you mention. You failed to say whether they were packing when it happened or not. Of all the white famous people with guns you left out the fact none of those people has ever come close to being as irresponsable as Plaxico. Is there a "race" box on the gun permit application? I really doubt it, so your assumption that there are no black people in NYC carying a legal firearm is based on what? Names you recognized?
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ch555x		#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 50 12/05/08 06:50:09	To the oped author: Yeah, it takes responsibility to actually carry/conceal loaded weapons. Otherwise, its deemed illegal especially if you do not take the needed steps in obtaining a permit...simple stuff! I'm sure there's all sorts of athletes, black or otherwise, that carry weapons with and, sometimes, without permits. You have to realize that though they may frequent NYC, they don't always live there...there's security for that! With the way this country's news is formatted, once you start tripping up (and famous), its on the front page. The names you just mentioned have already been through their respective negative press, so this so-called racial angle is pretty moot. Not to defend those cats, but aside from firearms, you can easily Google them to find all sorts of "goodies" they deal with (I would not frequent their paths!!!). Plexico has been running in and out of trouble most of this season not to mention he caught the winning Super Bowl touchdown just this past year. This is just something he'll have to deal with, much like other athletes who have been in trouble recently.
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lsstv		#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 5 12/08/08 18:27:59	Hell naw. He made it to the so called 'top of the mountain' and when he gets there, he f***s it up. Bad deal -- No! If you ask me, he ain't getting enough! Live Sex
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AfroAsiatic	No, no...this is about race...Amerikkka hates Black folkz...nothing's changed...	#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 3 12/09/08 03:40:20	Respect. Sorry, but this is all about the double standard that goes along with being Black in the empire called the U.S. Everyone wants to point the finger at Plaxico but no one wants to concentrate on the real problem...why is it so dangerous in the first place that folkz want/need to carry firearms? To this B lo Tim character (who must be white or wants to be...). If you find it difficult to believe that NYC won't issue gun permits to Blacks maybe you need to go check out a "hip-pop" website...this is called "HipHop", sun... On that note, if you don't want irresponsible people with guns on the street my question is, have you complained to any police about their "irresponsibility"...? But somehow you feel the need to put your two cents here and try to lecture (about) Black people...? This is condescending at best; at worst its racist... Amerikkka is very racist...still. As the author pointed out, Plaxico had the firearm for self-defense purposes. He didn't have it out, waving it around or anything like that. As for this license nonsense: If you can't get a license because you're not rich enuf or white enuf, does that mean you don't have the right to feel safe? What has Robert Deniro or any of these crackaz done that gives them the right to carry a firearm? HipHop community, we have to stop listening/ heeding info or advice from these provacateer agent types that try to split up the community. When these agents for the status-quo try to patronize you, tell them to go lecture the white/ mainstream community...we don't agree with them, so why can't they just leave Us alone and go back over to Main Street (or Wall Street). They don't overstand what it is to actually be Black on a daily basis. How do we know that some of those "licensed" white folks haven't had mishaps and it was covered up? We don't! Oh, that could never happen... ...just like the Tuskegee experiments... Look at the prison-industrial complex...how do you think they can get that many Blacks and Latinos there given their respective per capita populations without race-profiling and other racist institutions...? If you can't see that..you are definitely a racist...in the red-neck class!! I'm just sick of these crackas (Black and white) trying to infiltrate our community with misinformation to try to keep Us down, out and confused... Take control HipHop community...and "don't trussit..." HTP (Peace), AfroAsiatic
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FlavorBlade		#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 37 12/12/08 07:37:08	I hate guns. Even when I had to train to use them. People don't realize that unless you are living a lifestyle that calls for you to have a gun on the ready to shot i.e soldier, cop, drug dealer they won't save you 9 times out of 10. If anything it will get you killed quicker. For instance. "Stick-up" I point a gun at your chest and say "your money or your life" (a b-more favorite). If you pull anything out besides cash or a wallet. You're dead. A civilian with a gun might just try it. Same with a burglary unless you sleep with a gun under your pillow, and then if you shoot the burglar and they didn't shoot you guess who goes to jail. People watch to much T.V. During a stick-up you are better off knowing hand to weapon defensive tactics than having a gun tucked. "oh you strapped - give me that shit." More people carry guns for the perceived power it gives them than anything and ironically one way or another it's their guns that wind up on the street in the hands of criminals. Last Edited By: FlavorBlade 12/12/08 07:39:15. Edited 1 time.
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SirDevon	Not Getting Enough	#6	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1 08/21/09 09:37:41	lsstv wrote: Hell naw. He made it to the so called 'top of the mountain' and when he gets there, he f***s it up. Bad deal -- No! If you ask me, he ain't getting enough! What would this person consider enough? I understand he did not have a license, New York is famous for their tough gun laws. This man (Plaxico) is facing 20 months minimum and did not hurt a soul. The only people who are suffering from his accident is fans, friends, and most of all his family. I'm sure that he could have been used in an example through community service and taking away football for a year. The media reports on news that the people want to hear. Our obsession with athletes has led to all of this, but not one person has pointed out that Roger Goodell told Plaxico if he did not plead "guilty" that he would not reinstate him as he would if he did take the plea. Roger Goodell, I understand you are trying to clear the game's image, but you should not be able to stand in the way of a man taking the legal course that our nation has approved. My personal opinion is that Plaxico had no chance at a defense (although he was guilty), but come on Roger, you didn't even give the guy a chance. Either take the guilty or stop football for life is the message I received from his words. Goodell is really starting to look like a bully and the players union or another well bodied legal system should take action!
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