Jon Blaze

B.I. first...... Piece on Tennessee's winningest high school football coach returning to the classroom after a lukewarm five month retirement.

I sat patiently waiting to hear about Monday's Black Athlete Forum held by Spike Lee at Morehouse.... and finally the stories broke.

First and foremost I will say that I dislike Whitlock's views on almost everything. So much so it's taking everything in me to not refer to him as I would if I was talking to one of my boys about him, or to even put a link to his column on my page. Yet, this is not about him persay.

While I was happy to hear that C. Viv spoke her mind about what Whitlock wrote about her and her squad, I am upset that it stole the show. Well at least let him tell it.

There are problems within black culture. I will not deny that. But placing the blame for everything that goes wrong in the world on hip-hop is idiotic. What Jason, Cosby, and others fail to realize is that you can take all the rap videos off T.V., censor all the hip-hop albums created, and assign police officers to pants patrol to be on kids like officers are on rappers there wouldn't be a drastic change, because all your doing is taking away a negative. The way you make change is by showing a positive.

But nobody talks about that aspect. When I look at T.V. I see alot of Caucasian images that are just as damaging, however I see even more positive images that showcase a different spectrum. That's what black america needs - showcase the positive.

You can take the negative images out of the fictional world, but you can't take them out of reality. So if a kid sees a drug dealer from his neighborhood pushing a Escalade sitting on some rims. Whether he sees it on T.V. or not he's gonna be like Daaaaaaaamn 28's. And then what?