He didn't win the Nobel, he was nominated for it twice (just read about it). Thankfully he didn't win it, because I think it would have disrespected all previous winners, like Ghandi, Malcolm, Dr. Martin Luther King and the like. I couldn't care less that he turned his life around and started speaking out against gangs because all the little bangers ended up thinking is, "see, the trick is to not get caught!" The reason gangs have lost their luster, so to speak, is because the decent citizens of the areas where the gangs were prevalant said "ENOUGH!" and took their neighborhoods back! They decided, collectively, to not take that crap anymore and essentially made it uncool to be a banger! Notice how some of these stars that were bangers, like Ice-T and Snoop downplay the fact they were in a gang? I've always felt very strongly that any self-proclaimed banger is simply an outright idiot and that these folks that blame a lack of jobs or education as the reason kids join gangs simply fails to admit that the majority of kids that join gangs are idiots or their parents are!
What's really ironic about all this is, as I sit here, the movie Colors comes on, and I didn't even tune to it. FREAKY!!!!!
Well Revo, you need to submit my name! I had an award winner this morning! Would've made Stanley Steemer proud!