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"Chris Brown knows he&amp;apos;s done some terrible things in his past. What he doesn&amp;apos;t know is why the public can&amp;apos;t forgive him for those things -- especially when they&amp;apos;ve been so willing to overlook other people&amp;apos;s mistakes. Speaking about his bad reputation in the Oct. 14 issue of Jet magazine, the 24-year-old singer singles out hip hop mogul Jay Z as an example of someone who, in his opinion, has gotten off scot-free.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;No disrespect, because I&amp;apos;m a fan, but nobody brings up the fact that he stabbed somebody and sold drugs,&amp;quot; Brown tells the mag of the &amp;quot;Magna Carta&amp;quot; rapper, referring to the fact that Jay Z pled guilty to stabbing record executive Lance &amp;quot;Un&amp;quot; Rivera outside a New York City nightclub in December 1999. &amp;quot;He gets a pass.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nPeople have not been as willing to forgive and forget Brown&amp;apos;s indiscretions, he says, which include his 2009 assault of then-girlfriend Rihanna before the Grammys. But he insists he&amp;apos;s working hard to tackle his own anger-management issues.\r\n&amp;quot;You have to go through the struggle before you can get to the good part,&amp;quot; he explains. &amp;quot;I don&amp;apos;t try to lash out at people, or be as mad or impulsive as I used to be. I got to the point where it&amp;apos;s only so much you can take from the master, you feel me? I&amp;apos;ve taken my fair share of lashings.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nAs if to further paint himself as a victim, Brown aligns himself with Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old who died after being shot by George Zimmerman in February 2012.\r\n&amp;quot;I identify with Trayvon 100 percent as far as living in 2013 and still dealing with blatant racism,&amp;quot; he tells Jet. &amp;quot;This generation is so used to racism that it&amp;apos;s normal. We don&amp;apos;t care. We aren&amp;apos;t on drugs or catching AIDS, but they still look at us as n----s.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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