Stop Snitching ... Puleese!

When I went to my sorority's international conference last summer in Detroit, I remember getting off of the local people mover at the convention center with a young man who was sporting a "stop snitching" t-shirt. Being who I am, I couldn't help rather outwardly giving this guy the once over with my eyes and displaying an active look of disapproval. Luckily he didn't give me a look of defiance but, rather, he seemed to become a little self-conscious.

Do these kids even know what they are promoting and do they actually believe it? I think with some it's just a sick fad.

At first glance it defied belief. There was platinum selling rap artist Cam'ron brazenly telling 60 Minutes this past Sunday that if he knew the identity and the whereabouts of a mass killer, he wouldn't lift a finger to help police catch him.

Presumably that meant that if Seung Hui Cho rapped and partied with Cam'ron, and then Cho blurted out to him that he intended to commit murder and mayhem at Virginia Tech, Cam'ron wouldn't squeal to the police.

This is too serious to wave off as mindless blather of an airhead rapper out to sound hip, cool, and controversial, and of course sell more records. Cam'ron sells a lot of records to a lot of impressionable young and not so young men. They hang on his image and words. Worse, his silly anti-snitch plea touches a nerve with many blacks.

I saw this Cam'ron person on Anderson Cooper 360. (Honestly, I think I had him confused with basketball player Carmello Anthony. I truly don't, and can't/won't, keep up). This has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever seen and while I kinda, sorta understand not fraternizing with "the enemy" because the cops, very often, aren't the good guys in many communities, I think what pains me more is that news organizations are giving clowns like this a bigger platform than they deserve. Let somebody steal one of his giant diamond earrings and I'll bet he'll be calling the cops! He needs to stop frontin'!