Not Sorry

I read  this comment and it summarized my thoughts minus one word. In certain places it was even more descriptive than I would have been, due to a lack of personal knowledge. I enjoyed the insight.


"I’m a little tired with the skewed way we seem to view things within ‘our’ community. I don’t co-sign on anybody catching a beatdown like that: male or female. Though some definitely ask for it. Some of you watch the video and all you see is a man beating a woman. Similar to the bus driver incident. I look at it and see a man beating someone that to him was another man (challenger). She may have ‘looked’ like a female, much like many drag queens do today. But her actions and mannerisms were absolutely masculine to the core…hence why he had no problem stomping a mudhole in her. This is a street dude. This ain’t Webster or Carlton we’re talking about here. Rocking the red outfit he had on in Chicago tells me he’s most likely a Gangster Disciple. And the chick who chose to tussle with him knew this. This is a different mindset from the shielded lives many of you come from. Do you think a male lion cares if the other lion who’s ass he’s shredding is a female one? She challenges his masculinity and she’ll bear the brunt of that offense. For those who say he has no respect for women; bullsh!t. I bet he has all the respect in the world for his mom and grandmother. Though you can imagine the kind of environment they raised him in. Again: I don’t cosign on this. But coming from that world and just having common basic sense, I understand why it went down the way it did. And for the love of God man, this was NOT domestic violence! We have to stop calling every case where a female jumps up in a guy’s face and catches a beatdown domestic violence. Saying that does a great disservice to the thousands of women (and men)throughout America that suffer under REAL forms of domestic violence".