Chris brown Says He is Sorry, Do We Forgive Him???

I have heard it and seen it all. Some say Chris Brown is a loser, Gayle King has refused to forgive him, some want to whoop his--, while others just sit around talking smack about him. It's a fact what he did was oh so wrong,but instead of us as a nation being so ready to pull his albums off the shelf, pave his way to failure, and call him names, we should look deeper into the issue here.

The concern should be why and how a child, (which is what he pretty much is being that he is 19) has been led to this type of violence? This type of violence is learned and where did he get this from should be the question? Do you realize he may not have even known he had this in him and unless we were present in that room, on that very night, with him and Rihanna, we will never truly know what happened. I must ask with all the ranting and raving about what you want to do to him, what you hope happens to him, he is this and he is tha, what would you do if he was your son or brother? I know personally I have a teenager who is just 3 years younger than him, she is 16 and God only knows that if she were to suddenly go and beat someone this violently, I would be surprised, shocked, worried, and questioning why.

What I would not do however is just turn my back on her when she needs someone most,( which is what so called fans are doing to Chris Brown, just write him off the face of this earth, just leave him alone and afraid of whom he has become. Is that what anyone else would do? This is a young kid 19 years old treating the love of his life as if she were a stray animal on the side of the rode. But the question is still why? The recent cases where young teens have gone into public schools and killed perfectly innocent people is still and act of violence that I'm certain, none of their family and friends ever imagined would happen. What about the ones who kill theie parents? Many of them are teens whether it's 17, 18, or 19 they still know better. But yet we make excuses for them, we talk about how they were picked on, or treated like an outcast in school, or maybe they just didn't fit in, anyway you look at it, it's still the same thing; an act of violence, from a young teen that no one every saw coming.

What makes Chris brown so different? How do you think he must feel? The reports say he fled the seen as Rihanna began to zone out. Could this mean that he realized what he was doing? He noticed he wasn't himself? He snapped? And what about her, how do you think she feels knowing that someone she loved and felt she could trust has done this to her? It was even tough for her to go to police at first, because naturally she probably wanted to protect him.

We must not be so fast to assume anything, especially on the outside looking in. We must place ourselves in this situation and ask, what if if were my loved one who'd done this? This kid has come forward and said he needs counseling, he has said he is sorry, he is at least trying to make it better. None of us no how Rihanna is feeling, we are just blasting the love of her life all on the TV, the internet, the radio, creating websites with fake content to only make matters worse. At the end of the day none of us have to live with this, but Chris Brown and Rihanna sure do. What if it were you?
You must try to extend to others the respect, patience, and courtesy that you would want for yourself or your loved ones.


Tinzley Bradford A.K.A. Jv

T.B.