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Originally Posted by wild1
Don't be so quick to make McNair a hero
by Jason Whitlock
Updated: July 7, 2009, 11:46 AM EDT
We can quit calling Steve McNair a great leader now. Leadership starts at home.
And I'm no longer all that interested in hearing about the community service work McNair did in Tennessee and Mississippi. Service to community begins at home, too.
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Money quotes. The rest of the article reads like a tutorial in urban speak and Whitlock trying to sound 'word'.
He does make an interesting point about the police enabling McNair. Of course, if they busted him he'd probably play the card. But maybe, it wasn't just McNair's friends who enabled and failed him but the community he served as well.
You think the Mrs. would find it interesting to see a police report of DH being arrested with a drunk under aged woman in the car? Then later find out the car was registered to her and her husband? If anything, one wonders if McNiair might still be alive if the police had actually done their jobs and arrested him like they would average Joe. The papers would have heard about it, the Mrs. would have gotten involved, maybe even his friends would have approached him about this getting out of hand...
Hindsight is 20-20 but it seems too many people looked the other way one too many times.
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