Michael K Williams, drugs and what we don't discuss in the black community

<p>Actor Michael K Williams was just found dead.</p> <p><br></p> <p>A lot of people don’t know that Michael K Williams who played Omar on the wire was actually discovered by Tupac Shakur.&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>According to the New York Post:&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>“The Wire’’ actor Michael K. Williams was found dead of a suspected heroin overdose in his Brooklyn penthouse Monday afternoon, law-enforcement sources told The Post.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Williams was discovered unconscious in the dining room of his luxury Williamsburg pad with what appeared to be heroin on the kitchen table, sources said."&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>Michael K Williams was born in Brooklyn, the son of a Bahamian mother from Nassau and Booker T. Williams, an American, from Greeleyville, South Carolina, where his African-American family has deep roots. &nbsp;Williams was raised in the Vanderveer Projects in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, and attended George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School. According to a DNA analysis, he is descended partly from the Mende people of Sierra Leone.</p> <p><br></p> <p>After getting in some trouble as a youth, he enrolled at the National Black Theatre in New York City.</p> <p><br></p>