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Seattle Times identifies 1st hill victim as CD resident
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What a shame...
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Comment by
Barn Dog
9 months ago
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RE: What a shame... Faulty logic.
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Barn Dog: Yes, yes. One can always say it's worse elsewhere. It's worse in Iraq, for example, but so what? For those of us born and raised in the CD the recent levels of violence and death are shocking and horrifying. After a life here I've moved only slightly north, and what a difference 1.8 miles makes when you're moving from the middle of the CD to the North. No longer do I routinely hear gunshots at night, no longer am I a perpetual victim of property crime, no longer am I hounded by druggies each time I step out the door. The problems in the CD are bad. They may not be as bad as where you're from, but that doesn't make them any less horrible for those of us with kids still in school in the CD, or who live in the CD.
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RE: What a shame...
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People like this guy exaggerate a neighborhood's troubles to market himself to a population that glamorizes crime. I agree that is has little to do with the musical genre per se, but the scene that the music is often associated with is problematic.
I'm tired of reading about young people who die senseless violent deaths, with people making excuses for it. We need to face the fact that much of youth culture is violent, and that violence too often times is associated with hip hop. When it's not outright violent, it celebrates material goods that most of the kids who listen to it have little hope of attaining, at least at that point in their lives. No wonder so many kids have low self-esteem. To be honest, I blame music producers who foist this stuff off on naive and impressionable kids, and popular musicians who flaunt their wealth. It creates an atmosphere that leads kids like this one down a path where they feel the need to put forth a cynical, jaded persona that they associate with being a "gangster", and which many times ends up being a self-fulfilling prophecy. Kids need adult role models in their lives - not immature thugs rhyming about brand names and anti-social behavior. I don't know what the solution is, but acknowledging the problem is a good first step. |
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Bad neighborhood
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It depends who you are that makes the neighborhood dangerous for that individual
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MAX GASOI WAS A GREAT YOUNG MAN WHO WILL BE MISSED BY HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS!
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It was not hip hop that killed Max, it was a person w/ a gun. Music doesnt kill. People with guns can kill. Whatever Max was doing, he didn't kill anybody!
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RE: MAX GASOI WAS A GREAT YOUNG MAN WHO WILL BE MISSED BY HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS!
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But when the music attracts people with guns, or celebrates people with guns, or a person decides to live a "gangster lifestyle" because of the music, you can't help but make some connections.
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if it walks like a duck....
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RE: MAX GASOI ----------------------- a young man that did not have the opportunity to become the man he was intended to be!
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Our hearts and prayers go out to the grieving family, friends, and fans of this young man. Taken away before his time, leaving only those that loved and respected him behind. To vilify him for expressing himself in his music, just does not make any sense. These were his experiences, they were his life, and the fact that those songs touched others, tells me he had value to many. Certainly his music should not be used as an excuse for the person that murdered him. Again, lets remember this young man was growing and developing, and we can never know what he might have brought to us had he not been taken from us.
So, please do not vilify this young man for his music, remember he was loved, and has left a very large hole in his families lives. Our thoughts and prayers need to be directed to this loss, and towards catching rhe MURDERER!! |
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not the music
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His lifestyle choice is what likely got him killed, not his taste in music. Check out his myspace page pics to see him touting himself as a drug dealing gang member.
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Good riddance!
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Now if we can just figure out how to get rid of the rest of the bang-bangers....or whatever those idiots call themselves.
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its not the music its the people.
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Aren't there are just as many middle class murders as their are "ganster" murders. the difference is that middle class usually murder women and children where gansters murder each other. How many innocent people have the police shot and killed and gotten away with it? I just dont think you can blame music.
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Max Gasoi
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Having known Max since a toddler, and his family-friends and relatives, he lived a rather rich-cultured life, once at a Seder, when he was about 10 he told everyone at the Seder the history of a Seder, his parents, were carting him around snow boarding, to lessons, he had travelled extensively internationally with his parents, before 9 he had a brown belt-he was a physical genius , studied capoeira, and other forms of martial arts, dancing and song writing, and recording, Max was a mechanic, and a responsible father of a 5 month old. We all make choices in life, some good and some bad, not anyone is all bad or all good... life is not like that, Max was such a great spirit, not a thug, he came from a very interesting background and lived an interesting unique life, and wont be forgotten,yes -the glamorization of crime - feels wrong, but don't forget he was murdered, and he is a victim. Max is a child to a mom and dad who now have no son but a memory, Max was a big brother to 2 little brothers who are devastated Max is gone... Society is at fault...all of us..
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RE: Max Gasoi
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Correction on this --- Max and his decisions are at fault for this, do not blame me as part of the larger community or society for this. We all make our own choices in life, good, bad, right and wrong. Please do not bucket me in to your 'all of us' statement as I am in no way responsible for the life and choices he made.
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RE: Max Gasoi
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Society is at fault because a drug dealer died the way drug dealers die?
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My fallen student
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I am simply devastated. I just found out last night, and couldn't even get myself out of bed for work this morning. I was Max's teacher for two years in high school. I still have his journals. I loved him very much and I am so horrified. Mas was a good kid. Nobody is perfect, but he was good. He had the best smile (braces and all). He was smart, funny, and sensitive. I've seen him laugh and cry. I know what I tried to teach him especially when I saw some of the negative decisions he made, and I really don't know what to feel right now. Why? Why? I don't know how many more kids I can take loosing. Please respect this young man. He was indeed a product of this society, and I know his mother loved him and did the best she could to expose him to alternatives. Rest in Peace, Max. I'll never forget you, and I'm praying for your soul. Young people, please (I'm pleading with you) stop killing each other. PLEASE!!!
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RE: My fallen student
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Mrs. Thomas - I wish my high school teachers at Roosevelt had cared 1/100th the amount you do. I might not have dropped out!
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GOOD RIDDANCE TO GANGSTAS
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What an idiot. Good riddance.
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GOOD RIDDANCE TO GANGSTAS
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triple good riddance
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Sweat Jesus this kid was a thug - he possibly shot at his assailant? - so he is carrying a piece as well. It's tje ghetto life cycle.
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people who celebrate killing, grief and pain
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Max Gasoi was a beloved son, grandson, nephew, brother, husband, father, student, and friend. Who are you? Think of all of the possible names people could call you... Do you choose the most important ones for yourself and Max Gasoi listed above? Or do you choose names for you and he like: thug/hater, gangsta/hypocrite, idiot/menace...
I wonder if you love anyone--- maybe not-- maybe that's your problem, but if you do--- imagine someone killing them, then imagine someone celebrating their death, mocking your pain, saying "triple good riddance... " If you would say this about your own loved one, you are sad and dangerous. If you only say this about people you don't know, then you are the idiot and the menace. You are what you witness and profess. |
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Comment by
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Peace, Love, Happiness
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This man had a wonderful soul. If anyone needs someone to blame, blame G-d not Max. He loved, laughed, and lived a fruitful life just as you do now. It is easy to come to quick conclusions and judgements of other people. Please think carefully before posting comments that may be hurtful to the people who he loved and who love him. I was so impacted by this young man and I haven't seen him since elementary school. Your comments do hurt. What you say has an affect on others.
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We miss you Max
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Not a name just a number
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Another Dead Drug Dealer. Pretty up the family/hip hop angle all you want. One less person to burden the taxpayers and prison system. Time to face reality people.
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And I'm so tired of people playing up the crime rate in the Central District to show their "creds". I'm from the east coast and midwest originally, and I know from bad neighborhoods: The CD isn't a bad neighborhood, and it's not even one of Seattle's worst neighborhoods.