'Rap Music Serves to Weaken Nation's Moral Values'

[Oeditpus Rex]

Actual letter to the editor in the local excuse. When you consider that the writer is a former state assemblyman, it gets pretty scary.



Editor,

How is rap music affecting our society? Listen to the words, what does it promote?

I say it is a pernicious element that fosters undesirable things like violence, drug use and lawlessness among our youth.

Rap music also berates the most important foundation in a society, the family. A normal, responsible family should be promoted, not belittled. Loving, stable parents are all important in the creation of emotionally healthy children,ones who will not fall by the wayside.

What to do?

When you go into a store ask if they sell rap music. If they do, express concern to the manager, shop elsewhere.

Take an interest in what today's youth is doing. Stand up and support things help raise our society and reject the things that weaken the moral values this country was founded on. Attend a school board meeting, make your concerns known.

You can make a positive change in the direction of this country. Start today.

Peter Frusetta,
Tres Pinos

http://www.freelancenews.com/opinion/contentview.asp?c=198237

[ghostsofgiants]

1. I wonder what Peter's DU screenname is.

:evilgrin:

[SeattleGirl]

2. Another person, lumping all songs of a particular genre into

the same category. There are rap songs and hip hop songs that glorify violence, but there are plenty that do not. But this looney doesn't get that. Probably heard one bad rap song and decided that they are all the same.

[bridgit]

3. i don't think the kind of rap he refers to weakens it or strengthens it...

it's a walk through cameo just phoning it in, a zero sum zero loss genre played bodaciously loud in the tanks & armored fighting vehicles of our armed forces as they blow the shit of the world up & out bouncing round in deserts & on dirt roads, oh...and Cadillac Esplanades from here to Saudi Arabia so what's the problem

[reyd reid reed]

4. *sigh*

Look...I'm not saying that rap is my favorite genre. It's not. But I'll defend to the death someone else's right to buy and/or listen to it.

And I'd like to know...'normal' family? What's 'normal'? He needs to define 'normal' 'cause I'd bet dollars to donuts his definition and mine don't match. And I'm about as 'normal' as they come. For me, anyway. I don't know any other way to be and neither does the rest of my family.

I've had a headache all day long and just reading that ratcheted it up a notch and I can feel my blood pressure going up.

:mad: