And yet again you jump to conclusions involving race. Somebody says Oakland is dangerous, `oh you're putting African Americans down'. Another person states you shouldn't glorify a `criminal', you think it's because he's racist. Would you have posted that if Rick Ross had been White. Of course you wouldn't have. People like you, the hyper pc that will find racist connotations in every negative comment, like Al Sharpton, make everybody seem like a bad person for not being anti-white.

The original commenter stated that these two people would be fun to watch fight to the death.

Said about two white people or two blacks or two people in general you know it's a superfluous comment that does not add anything to the discussion.

Your parent poster is entirely right. Comments such as these drag the quality of the comments section here at hacker news down.

If you don't believe you should glorify a criminal or a rapper than you should say that and leave it at that. If you think that it is wrong to try to understand the mind set of a man who learned to read behind bars and read so many law books he found a hole in the law which allowed him to become a free man again you should tell us why there is nothing inspirational, interesting, or glorifying about this mans life.

Saying that two people would be fun to watch fight to the death, no matter how sarcastic, adds nothing and is superfluous.

I think you read my comment and responded w/o re-reading it, and not to mince words I chose the word 'might' carefully. Might and would are on the opposite side of logic. Therefore, I reject the premise of your comment on basic levels. I do concur with your conclusion that it is a sarcastic comment, however you likely don't need to point that out here.

Thanks for coming to my defence. Obviously, this person thinks race is an important factor in this discussion, which it is most certainly not. It is a shame when someone throws the race card out there. Neither drug dealers, nor poseur rappers that pretend to be deserve to be glorified. If I were a betting man, I would place a bet that either Rick Ross would bitch slap that troll and take his figurative lunch money if SHTF.

Peace.

For the record, sorry, accidentally downvoted you (meant to upvote).

Unfortunately, such people start with the assumption that race is the motivation for dislike, and you can do pretty much nothing to change their mind. It's mind-boggling, but they're really, really convinced of it.