I believe that they both failed themselves. Starting with
Mike, I know that he grew up in a bad neighborhood where he was expected to do
things. Or was he because the person that asked him what he was doing was not a
part of the gun shooting. By this I believe that Mr. Tyson did have a choice and
that he did not say that in the article so that he could look like a victim.
Then he went on to be a great success within boxing so I guess you could say
that he was not failed by society which again leaves that fact that he failed
himself. He has to live with what he said in the article and no amount of fame
is going to change that. Just because you say you grow up in a horrible
environment doesn’t mean you have to be horrible yourself. I know that this
just sounds horrible and that Mike Tyson was a victim but was he. He, just like
everyone else, had choices and he just made those choices out of, more than
likely, fear.
Now, Freddie Gray definitely failed himself. The article is
very clear about that. You can’t expect to get a job when you have a huge
criminal record. Seriously he was a big time criminal and he tried to get a job
and he even expected the person to say yes. Just like Mike Tyson and everyone
else, Mr. Gray had choices and he didn’t make bad ones out of fear, he probably
made them out of knowledge. What he did is probably all he knew how to do. This
does not mean that people should take pity on him and hire him. The amount of
trouble he could have caused may be unimaginable and you can’t blame them for
not hiring him. He was even known to the police so what he did was one huge
thing or a lot of multiple little, but bad, things. So I don’t think society
failed Freddie Gray. He definitely failed himself.
Both of these men failed themselves.
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