Why is the urban family supporting a pedophile?
R. Kelly is leading Billboard's American Urban Radio Network R&B/Hip Hop Awards with eight nominations. Why? Hell, I thought I hit rock bottom when rock died, but this is even more dismal. Jay-Z is a close second, with seven nominations, followed by Alicia Keys, Beyonce and Outkast with five apiece. What sane parent would let their children listen to the musical garbage that is now R&B? R. Kelly is a pedophile, having once been married to Aaliyah when she was 14, and most recently videotaping himself engaged in sex acts with another teenie bopper. That's the crap I'd want my child associating with, listening to, emulating.
Jay-Z is yet another icon of urban degradation. The man apparently has intimate knowledge of a knife, having been charged in 1999 with assault with a weapon. This thug mentality that pervades urban society is a cancer. Honestly, how can you people support these rejects of society, and why do you embrace them so?
Alicia Keys I can somewhat understand. Though being smart enough to graduate high school early, after making the big time, she now resorts to ghetto speak whenever interviewed. Poseur witch. It won't be long before she ends up like Lauren Hill, telling white people she don't want them buying her music. I think I'd like to step on her.
Beyonce actually has some talent. She hasn't stabbed or shot anyone yet, I believe her mother would kill her. I can't say anything bad about her really, I just hope she keeps a clean image, or as clean as MTV will allow.
Outkast, in my humble honky opinion is the most talented of those I have listed so far. Two very divergent musical trains of thought make for some very fresh and insidious music, pleasant to hear and catchy enough to make your eyes cross when the hook bounces around in your brain. I've not seen any of their sexual capers on the porn sites yet, so they've scored one in my book. And my wife likes them.
Bill was right, you see. These "artists" are the urban child's surrogate parents. With their sub- Seuss lyrics, obtuse thoughts on life, women, and lifestyle they teach and coerce and attach themselves like leaches to little brains with no direction in a perverse attempt to justify their rather banal existence as something more than it is. Examples set in youth will translate and project in adulthood. It's nearly as bad as drugs I think, because it spreads itself more, is easier to get ahold of, and people call it art.
White children are no better off, either. Trying to emulate a culture to appear cool is just so damn lame. There is a looming problem on the horizon with folks who can't seem to grasp that everyone is different. There are too many people who just aren't happy with themselves and want to pretend to be someone else. Cool is relative, and in this throw away society, fleeting. The increase in the number of plastic surgeries is almost frightening. It's also quite sad, really. It means people have lost faith in themselves.
Returning to my original rant, I find it baffling why the black community stands behind these pillars of indecency as they do. O.J. Simpson (innocent, my ass!), Mike Tyson, Tupac, Biggie, Bobby Brown, Glen Campbell, I mean, come on, wake up. Pedophiles, murderers, rapists, drunks, crackheads, gangsters, (Disney needs to quit putting out crap like "Pocahontas" and go back to more traditional greats as "Something wicked this way comes."). It just perpetuates a desperate attitude and a very antisocial mentality. I refuse to believe it's a racism problem, no matter how you spin it. Whitey ain't after black folks anymore, there's a law or two agin it. That reason is as faded as the closed up buildings in the ghettoes that once, not so long ago, prospered. The last couple generations of Americans coming up through the ranks of life have lived in a homogenous society, racism isn't remotely as rampant as civic leaders and media want you to believe. Color has really become a non-issue, except in the inner city, where it thrives on decay, drugs, hopelessness, and poverty.