Cam Newton's Slippery Slope/ Has Cam Newton heard of Huey Newton?

Cam Newton is an awesome, talented, great quarterback.

When he began play in the professional game he was called out publicly by his employer to not be a tattoo having thug; as that was not the image the team wanted to project. That was a signal that he is a target off the field as well as on. Unfortunately for Cam, the people targeting him compete in a different arena and use weapons (like a pen & camera) his physical skills cannot nullify.

His being on stage with Young Jeezy seconds before shots rang out at a party is a big deal for a number of reasons:

1. It's contract time - Cam has slaved under a cruel rookie wage scale. Supposedly he is in line for a hefty new contract but:
2. The team manager went on record saying ,"No ticking time bombs"
3. Young Jeezy won't give him a dime if he's shot in a nightclub and neither will anyone else. 

Cam is as free to go wherever and associate with whomever as anyone else. Based on his publicly observable choices though he doesn't understand how quickly things can go south.

Certainly the white people paying him will want to know if he thinks hanging out in a public forum with a public personality who encourages prostitution, drug use and other forms of criminality is a good idea. They may or may not ask him but they will wonder , particularly after having bit a 13.1 million dollar bullet on another player who liked to party.

So Cam has a lot to lose, and like a lot of blacks who miraculously escape the curse of poverty in America, you wonder if he even knows?