On the sports talk radio show that I used to thoroughly enjoy, the mere utterance of Marion "Suge" Knight's name in the wrong context (read: any context) was likened to a request for a beat down.
Mr. Knight, an ex-convict and former rap impresario who helped usher the term "gangsta" into the popular vernacular, had, until recently been leading a shadowy, not newsworthy existence out in Cali. Free to walk the streets as long as he met the obligations of his probation. He needn't have ever made news again until the publishing of his obituary if he'd played his cards right.
But no. Suge had to make an invasion back into public spaces (mainly the internet) by allegedly catching a sucker-punch beat down outside of a night club. Reports and photos of the unfathomable incident have spread so widely, you'd think the David vs. Goliath fable had truly been realized.
There's talk on the web of a potential throw-down between Suge and the steel-fisted assailant in some sort of cage match on pay-per-view.
What good would that do any of us? How far do we set our kids back if we fixate at all on an infamous thug caught in a brawl, with more supposedly to follow?
Shouldn't we all just ignore what's up with Suge, so that the concept of getting even by violent means is the least of our concerned, no matter who's involved?
No matter what, let's shie;d our sons from the aftermath of this truly meaningless conflict .
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