Home boy Reginald Sumbler was shot by a SWAT team down here in Dumbass the other day. Standing on a drainage cover on a local boulevard with a Bible, a cell phone and a 9mm handgun while doing that spasmodic rap hand dance, he had more stuff than he could hold so he put the gun down. His mother dialed 911 fearing her troubled son was about to commit suicide. Police arrived and called HPD negotiators who were having some success in talking the drunken man down and away from his weapon. As the negotiations proceeded the HPD SWAT team screeched upon the scene. Seeing the heavily armed and armored squad of soldiers move in, Sumbler reached for his gun. Ten to fifteen shots killed him dead.
Before the Michael Vick case I could have made the two valid arguments on Reginald’s behalf. That had the problem been left to the negotiators rather than a SWAT team, or had Sumbler been a 20 year old White man wearing a polo shirt and Dockers he would be alive today. But I am now so phised off at this whole pile of Hip Hop cultural Crap [HHCC], that even though yesterday’s arguments are probably true, I wish to zero in to put the blame upon a sub culture gone crazy. Hip Hop requires that Home Boyz dress like idiots, talk like evil clowns and carry a semi-automatic pistol around with them. My truth today is that Sumbler would be alive today had he not owned and carried around a handgun.