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Cris Carter Speaks On Sean Taylor & Educating Young Black Men

November 29th, 2007 . by Chuck

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I saw this bit on HBO’s Inside The NFL and had to upload it for you guys to see. Cris Carter spoke on the Sean Taylor situation and was more insightful and more useful than any of the talking heads I’ve seen on TV so far. I’m sure most of you have heard about Wilbon saying he “wasn’t surprised Sean Taylor was murdered”, or Jason Whitlock calling the hip hop community “the black KKK”.

Unlike Michael Wilbon and Uncle Ruckus a.k.a Jason Whitlock, Cris Carter isn’t interested in finger pointing and venting his frustrations on hip hop or the black community. Cris Carter is all about fixing the problem and helping young athletes get on the right path from the start.

Carter has actually lived the life of a young, black, and rich athlete with behavior problems and eventually found his way out of that life into a mature role model. It’s important for people like this to get as much airtime as the sensationalists, mostly because they’ll actually know what they’re talking about. Check it out…