Montana Diary

Having been the personal target of torment and ridicule in his youth, Brother Ali was alienated much like Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui. But while Seung-Hui coped with extreme violence, Ali always took a different approach.

"Personally I was blessed to be around people who reached out to me and taught me a lot of things to know and the tools to deal with. I didn't have a whole lot of a choice, and I did have a period where I lashed back out at people. I did have a period where I learned how to punch people in the face. But I was blessed to have people around me putting it all in context so I can understand what I was up against. It's difficult to understand 'Why am I an outsider? Why does it seem like everyone else is getting along just fine, and I can't?'

I think that [the circumstances] says a lot about us as a society. We focus so much on ourselves that we don't have a communal view or anything. We don't reach back and pull each other out when we're down. We don't make sure that everyone's taken care of. We just focus on what we need, personally—the individual. Helping other people is only done when it's good for us."

Ali is currently touring to promote his critically acclaimed album The Undisputed Truth, and is in early stages of programming a Canadian tour.

Reported By: Omar Mouallem

Source-hiphopdx

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Rebel INS {CF}

i like Ali, but, its like hey is sayin hey if people were better buddies with that young asain fella this would never have happened so lets all love each other ! shit doesnt work like that

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scool

i SUPPORT that asian kid, them usa kids were poppin too much shit, they deserved it

JustAFan

That quote was ripped out of context. It does not seem plausible to me that this was all he had to say. Do you happen to know what the question was that made him say this?

I understand your situation, but please try to leave your ego and your attitude out of this. You're just being plain ignorant now.

scool

^^shiiit son u know I gotta let my ego ride, especially now since I jus got home from the gym and I'm feeling hyped as a mutherufcker


uuuhh loook, now all these dead fucks are "innocent victims" riight??? I bet they were all acting hard and picking on that asian kid and making his life miserable n shit... and he was like: FUCK THIS IM RIDIN ON THESE DOUCHEBAGS..

so he did, and he showed them what u get for pushing some1 that's on the edge... heeeyy.. they won't do it again

I wanna see MORE shootings, and trust me I'll never get shot cuz I treat people iwth respect (outside of this board)

JustAFan

He killed 32 people. You suggested all of those people 'picked on him'. It seems like he wasn't aiming at anybody specifically, neither does he seem to be aiming at anyone specifically in his video messages. It should be obvious that this shooting is inexcusable. Besides in a society we have a justice system, this isn't a jungle. Nor do we have an anarchy, we have democracy and this not only means free speech but also tolerance towards free speech.

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
- Chomsky

scool

^^how can any1 tell that he was aiming for certain people or not? ofcourse all the victims are gonna say "uuh I dont even know him" ...

dude decided he was tired of losing and did what he thought was right to get himself a win

"Whoever told you participating is more important than winning is lieing. If you don't care about winning, why even play?"

-William Cooper