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It May Not Get Dumber Than This

On first glance this article may seem to belabeled a "snitch." No joke. He said, "I'm
about sports since it is about formernot a snitch. I don't do that, that's not my
welterweight boxing champion Zab Judah. He isforte." But he did do something. He gave a
a very good fighter and is still in good"shout  out"  to  Brooklyn  where  he lives.
shape to possibly be a champion again.
However, what happened to him the other dayObviously a normal thinking person wants to
and his response to it point strictly topuke. Imagine doing all of that work and
cultural issues.Judah was hanging on a streetgetting basically slapped in the face for it.
corner in New York City at about 5 a.m. inJudah was more worried about being labeled a
front of his yellow Lamborghini. Suddenly, a"snitch" than getting scum off the streets.
car pulls up with several thugs inside. OneBut he is a hip-hop kind of guy and fear of
of the thugs points a gun at Judah demandingbeing labeled a snitch like some B mob movie
all valuables. Showing he still has goodis more important than morals and
footwork, he takes off. The idiot criminals,decency.This is becoming nothing new for the
totally baffled, get back into the car andguy. After a referee stopped one of his bouts
drive off. Zab gets into his car and startshe was losing, Judah proceeded to take a
to follow the criminals. Driving erratically,stool and toss it. He then opened his glove
the thugs crash into another moving vehicle.and slid it under the ref's throat to protest
A couple of them stagger out and run intothe stoppage. In another recent bout billed
some nearby housing projects. Meantime, aas a "Hip-Hop Summit," hip-hop things
Homeland Security officer happened to catchoccurred: Judah's camp fought it out with the
the whole thing. As he approaches theopposing fighter's camp in the ring and
vehicles, Judah comes around and tells thesecurity and police had to be called in to
officer he was a victim of an attemptedrestore order. He lost that fight, too. Best
robbery. The officer checks on the injuredof all may be his recent arrest for skipping
innocent victim in the one vehicle and thenout on a family warrant. Basically, he humped
holds his gun on one of the suspects who wasa woman and she produced a child. Yes, he is
still injured in his car. A cabdriver alsomarried. He was arrested at a "charity"
caught the whole thing and drove his carbasketball game at Madison Square Garden and
around the projects and recognized one of theowes roughly $60,000 in support.Now, the
thugs who was hoping to jump into the cab andusual "tolerance" of such nonsense will
leave. The cabby let him in and drove himoccur. People are immune to it. Certainly,
right back to where police had gathered atyou will not hear a peep about it in boxing
the scene of the accident. The third wascircles- a sport filled with ex-cons. Only
wanted.Let's get this straight. Judah had awhen a minor incident occurs involving racial
gun pointed at him and he took off. Onewords will people wake up. This is certainly
innocent fellow was injured due to thugstrue  in  diverse  cities.
crashing into him. An officer risked his life
by making sure a criminal suspect did not getOnce again, the "hip-hop way" is a disaster.
away. Finally, a cabby had the guts toJudah prides himself on it. So do many
actually pick up a criminal in the street andpeople. Up is down and down is up. Being
return him to the police. Obviously one wouldcalled a snitch is "worse" than getting
think Judah would be very thankful for allfreaks off the streets. The acceptance of
the work his fellow citizens put in. Thinksuch a mentality is disastrous. Stay clear as
again. Judah refused to identify any of themuch as possible.
suspects because he did not want to be



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