That Benji Wilson Story on ESPN

[Carolina Slim]

My personal take on the documentary....

I FULLY believe the killer's side of the story. He was 15 years old and a short nikka in the heart of violent ass Chicago. After his dad died, he probably had fear in his heart each day in Chicago especially since he was never really bout that life growing up. Now mind you, the kid was going to the school to handle some goon who stole money from his sister and surprisingly, he didn't bust his gun on the goon and the altercation ended peacefully. This shows dude has a heart and was happy he didn't have to bust his gun but still handed the problem the best way he could. His main mistake was not going home and still hanging around the area like a bum with his homeboy

Now all you bums siding with Benji, hear me out. Dude was an excellent basketball player but had you paid more attention to the film, Dude was a pure simp to that high school crush of his. Everyone was commenting like as if to say "he was the next big thing but he was sweating this hoe, why??" and anytime she dissed him in public, he'd spaz out. YAll remember Benji pushed a teacher over that hoe in the hallway and got suspended. So if he would push a teacher without thinking (which most nikkas would never do), Im quite sure that nikka would push a 5'6' bum outside of a corner store and then talk greasy because he knew he was the basketball GAWD around town but this time, he bumped into the wrong nikka and got caught slippin.

Now, I dont condone this senseless violent shyt at all but since this is a film portraying how a young future got cut short so it wouldnt go into full detail how some of these young basketball prospects think their invincible and do whatever the fukk they want once they get some media shine. I mean, you heard Benji's brother say "I wish benji wouldn't have acted like me on that day" meaning the brother was leading that nikka wrong on a morality side on handing confrontations. Thats why its important families teach kids right from wrong at an early age because the decisions you make in life truly can affect in your future espcially in the hood.

Both guys were wrong, just one guy was more wrong than the other by killing dude so this is a simple case of "keep your emotions in check especially in dem skreets!"



P.S. very shocked no one mentioned how Wood Harris a.k.a "Avon Barksdale" was narrating this documentary but his character in "The Wire" had numerous young males doing wild violent shyt and and If i remember right, I think he put the hit out to shoot and kill the promising young "Wallace" character

The Wire Clip: Bodie and Poot Kill Wallace - YouTube

I smell you on this post. Only point I would contend with was the bolded part; only reason that Billy didn't have to go to the burner was because the situation was already squashed by the time him and his man got to Simeon. I don't think there even was an altercation.

But it did sound like, even from his peoples, that Benji knew he was "that nikka" and thought he could do no wrong, and that's what did him in.

 

[etrofllenrod504]

jus finished watchin what a sad story.......think wilson was heated already cuz the arguin with his chic(we all been ther atleast once) so he cudnt think level headed cuz his emotions wer already on overdrive cuz his chic and prolly wudv snapped on anyone that wudv came at him anytype of certain way sideways......smh

 

[The War Report]

A simple "my bad" would of been enough.

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

Wood harris is from chicago.His character on the wire has nothing to do with narrating this film

You have to separate characters from actual people.This would be no different than tupac narrating this film if he was alive his bishop/birdie characters were just roles he played the same applies to wood harris

i was just trollin about the Wood Harris reference but I didnt know he was from Chicago

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

yeah i dont know why nikkas thought Benji died on some Assassination by the FBI through the Counterintelligence Program or some shyt.

Nah, you gotta understand, the Ben Wilson story is like an urban legend, so I had heard that gangs had set him up because they were jealous of his success or that he had gotten robbed or something.

I didn't know it was just "A nikka Moment", which is still retarded, is a little less crazy than some of the shyt I'd heard over the years.

Man I thought I was the only one. I may get some heat for this but at first, the way she was acting came off a lilttle contrived to me but maybe its just me.

Don't know what or how she was doing behind closed doors. Some people can put on a good face for the crowd.

This aint no diss or nothing, I just don't know to many people built like that.

Where you been? Black women who grew up in the church have been like that for hundreds of years.

Look at Coretta Scott King after MLK got killed or Len Bias mama or Hank Gathers mamas.

Black women born before the 1960s were the strongest humans who have EVER walked the face of the earth man.

That's why it's so sad now to see what our bullshyt culture has turned them into.

Since crack came and crushed our buildings in the '80s and created that chickenhead/strawberry culture, we've been screwed man.

Black.women.have the lowest suicide rates in the country.

They're strong as fukk and are the mules of the earth.

Damn Str8

the 1980s are so interesting to me. Watching this and the Len Bias story..so much stuff happened before we were born.

Oh my goodness, the 1980s are the most exciting decade to watch shyt about.

It's like the world went crazy after the '70s were over.

I love all those "Cocaine Cowboys" docs and other shyt that talks about the crack era, because it was horrible to live through, but man it was the last time America was a vibrant country.

Such a senseless murder. I bet his Benji's baby mother still wakes up in cold sweats at night still having nightmares of what happened that day. I know she must have felt real guilty over his death. I seriously don't understand why would she would give him any grief when dude was going to be a superstar in the future.

Simple, she's teenage girl man.

They are the most irrational people alive.

 

[Brozay]

Why doesn't Jabari rep #25 ?

 

[Carolina Slim]

Why doesn't Jabari rep [URL=http://www.the-coli.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=25]#25 [/URL] ?

If I understood correctly, they retired the number permanently. I think they had retired it at first, then started the deal where the best player wore #25 . I think the last one was D Rose, then they retired it before Jabari got there. That's how I understood it, I could be wrong.

 

[mastermind]

Oh my goodness, the 1980s are the most exciting decade to watch shyt about.

It's like the world went crazy after the '70s were over.

I love all those "Cocaine Cowboys" docs and other shyt that talks about the crack era, because it was horrible to live through, but man it was the last time America was a vibrant country.

this is very true

 

[Bomb 1st]

the worse part about this doc is that little huddle they had with his ppl where those old dusty aint shyt nikkas were sitting there like "yea man, benji was our ticket " fukkin fakkits they aint care bout that man and 30 yrs later still dnt

 

[god shamgod]

Why doesn't Jabari rep #25 ?

If I understood correctly, they retired the number permanently. I think they had retired it at first, then started the deal where the best player wore #25 . I think the last one was D Rose, then they retired it before Jabari got there. That's how I understood it, I could be wrong.

This is correct.Simeon retired the # 25 permanently.Derrick Rose was the last player to ever wear it which was 2 years before Jabari parker arrived

 

[Carolina Slim]

but yea man this shyt is so sad; the worse part about this doc is that little huddle they had with his ppl where those old dusty aint shyt nikkas were sitting there like "yea man, benji was our ticket " fukkin fakkits they aint care bout that man and 30 yrs later still dnt

Word. nikka been gone almost thirty years, and these nikkas still talking about "we was gonna good with son; he was gonna take us places". And he'd have been right there on that "Broke" documentary ESPN did a couple weeks earlier.

The homie Charles Barkley was spitting some truth about that on Dan LeBatard's show last week.

The Dan LeBatard Show | 10.25.12

 

[gldnone913]

couldn't sleep and watched this at like 4 in the morning

sad as fucc

 

[The War Report]

Word. nikka been gone almost thirty years, and these nikkas still talking about "we was gonna good with son; he was gonna take us places". And he'd have been right there on that "Broke" documentary ESPN did a couple weeks earlier.

The homie Charles Barkley was spitting some truth about that on Dan LeBatard's show last week.

The Dan LeBatard Show | 10.25.12

LeBron took his closest friends on that "ride"

 

[J-MIL]

LeBron took his closest friends on that "ride"

On the real. I dont understand why cats in here goin in on his boys for saying that. Like Benji wasn't gon look out for em.

Lotta ballers from the hood that made it do this shyt all the time. KG, AI, etc..

 

[holidayinn21]

that was the first, and only time I'll ever watch this doc.

that was just too much to take.