Not the exact topic title, but the divorce is final between Lamar and Khole:

http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/khloe-kardashian-and-lamar-odom-divorce-granted-by-judge-1051706.php

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People on here come from white privilege and don't understand how it is to be born into a community where drugs are the norm. I won't even bother explaining it to you all because it will never change your attitude but I come from a community where drug use is the norm which results in single or no parent households, lots of free time at a young age, no direction and not knowing a different life, and you also have the genetic component as well as the societal implications. Its just a different world that most of you will never know...consider yourself lucky.

Truth.

Hyperbole. Not everyone in this situation is doomed to try and become addicted to narcotics. It's neither insensitive nor delusional to acknowledge that at some point a choice was made. In fact, as someone who did not grow up white or privileged, and who has many relatives who are poor, I find it patronizing that so many on this thread assume that large swaths of urban poor people are helpless and incapable of choosing NOT to take that first hit.

Anonymous wrote:People on here come from white privilege and don't understand how it is to be born into a community where drugs are the norm. I won't even bother explaining it to you all because it will never change your attitude but I come from a community where drug use is the norm which results in single or no parent households, lots of free time at a young age, no direction and not knowing a different life, and you also have the genetic component as well as the societal implications. Its just a different world that most of you will never know...consider yourself lucky.

Truth.

That and the people that are like "He is a great guy". Most of them would probably not want their kids to have a friend that solicits prostitutes and does hard drugs, regardless of their situation in life. I doubt they would tell their DC that their new friend is a "great guy". Talk is just that...talk.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As good as an athlete as he was, Lamar's problems have been with him for a looooong time. He was busted in college for soliciting a prostitute, and has a long track record of such behavior. As much as these people love to defend his addiction as if they were his actual family, we all know they would never want their kids to be friends with him if they were in school together. If he wasn't an NBA player you would just write him off like all the other black addicts that are homeless on the streets right now that also had traumatic childhoods. I'd wager if one of them came up to you on the street you would turn the other way.

"These people?" Not sure who you mean but I'm black and I don't write off Lamar's pain and addiction or that of anyone regardless if he or she is a black addict or a white addict. You'd lose that wager.

I wasn't referring to anyones race. These people = the people in this thread talking about what a great guy he is. MOST people (maybe not you, yay here's a star), if they saw some coked-up junkie on the street (whether he was white or black or yellow or blue), would not be praising them or saying what a nice person they probably are or how it's not their fault. They would tuck their heads and keep walking, hoping that the homeless guy doesn't pick them. Yea I understand not everyone is like this, but a large % are. If you need proof go to downtown DC and watch a homeless guy for an hour. The homeless are invisible to the average joe walking on the street, but they have it way worse than Lamar. This guy just gets a ton of sympathy because of his status.

Anonymous wrote:Why do people keep bringing up illegal drugs. You do know people become addicted to pain pills, alcohol, and gambling right?

Because it's relevant to Lamar. Aka this thread