GARBAGE IN = GARBAGE OUT
Racism is a topic being discussed by businessmen, influential women and leaders in our community about how racism is across the board a common problem with anyone, black, yellow, brown, black or white. Our society today is influenced and exposed to many different ways of thinking about our fellow man through actions of the various races on earth through how they are presenting their race to other races.
GI-GO is at the core of societies problems and racism. If you are putting GARBAGE INTO YOUNG MINDS YOU CAN ONLY EXPECT TO GET GARBAGE OUT!
Our entertainment industry is an example of how it is dividing races, creating an image of how to live. Opinions formed in the minds of children perceive their future to be are formed through the words in the visual movies television programs and songs we listen to on a daily basis. You the parent have control of what goes into their minds. Is the music they listen too what you want them to base their lives on? Think about it for a minute. What we are exposed to during our waking hours in reality propaganda and a form of brainwashing. Right? Each and every one of us guilty of not controlling what is influencing our society.
Being in Nashville, I will start with country music as my first example of how music influences us on a daily basis.
Music Influences
1. Country- lyrics are usually about broken hearts, being in love, being done wrong, having a good time, outdoors or drinking alone or with friends in a country Honky Tonk or Bar and just living a slower paced life with some fun along the way. Nothing too harsh or cruel to influence children or is it?
2. Blues- lyrics speak of hard times, broken hearts, love, being done wrong by your woman or man and drowning their sorrows in a dim lit bar drinking to forget their problems. Just lyrics about a hard life nothing too harsh or cruel or is it?.
3. Heavy Metal- cranks up the volume and words reflect a heavy drug use, hard drinking, partying wild lifestyle with an occasional love song thrown in to soothe the mind after an adrenaline rush from sound and visuals. Harsh but not really bad or is it?
4. Hip Hop/Rap- lyrics reflect disrespect for women, promoting and glorify being a gangster, shooting people, promoting the most addictive drugs, stealing, as a cool thing to do to put lots of money in your pocket. I don't know about you but that isn't something I think we need to condone or let our youth listen to. Anyone producing such garbage should be shut down and banned as obscene and Anti-American! Unless of course, that is what you want to be a role model for your child! Is it?
5. Latino- from the most I have heard is more about having a good time, love, romance and dancing. However I don't understand Spanish so I may be off somewhat, please correct me if I am a wrong age of positive or negative thoughts rather than pulling together. Seems to be pretty cool if I could only understand the lyrics. Maybe a crossover in the English language would help us who don't speak Spanish to understand the latino music influence more. What do you think?
6. Christian- lyrics are filled with respect and love for our fellow man, forgiveness, thankfulness, prayer, desire to be a better person, kindness toward others, love and respect for oneself. This seems to have the most positive influence to go into the minds of everyone including children. Would you not agree?
New Age- Seems to be calming and not influencing any bad behaviors.
Movies and television programs
Our entertainment industry is an example of how it is dividing races creating an image of how to live. Opinions formed in the mind of children perceive their future to be are formed through the words in the visual movies television programs and songs we listen to on a daily basis.
We see and hear lots of positive things about being a better person. However, daily we and our children are exposed to various forms of entertainment that promotes violence, glorifying gang activity, disrespect for others, especially women, dealing or using drugs and greed. The sad thing is our society supports these trashy people and their influence on our youth. We support the advertisers of the programming and purchase their branded products, we are giving these people our money making them wealthy allowing our youth look up to them as role models. These reality TV shows are all about shallow people put out into our world how to be crude, rude, with an obscene lifestyle for all the world to see. If we allow companies and entertainers put garbage into the minds of our children we are to be blamed for allowing it to happen. Don't waste your money on products they promote, watch their programs or listen to their style of music. They are preying on our youth and have become so powerful that they can make a simple statement and a company will lose hundreds of millions of dollars in just a few hours. It is time to take back our dignity as human beings. These actions of the so-called cool people need to be stopped. Quit buying their homes, jets, clothes, lavish and obscene lifestyle! You have the power to change the world for the betterment of our society and future of our children. If we continue to allow this we should be ashamed of who we are as parents.
Social Behavior
Racism is formed through perception. Change what goes into our minds and our children's minds and we change the world and our society becomes a better place to live, laugh and love. As adults when you produce mind damaging material to be inserted into the mind of a child for the love of money, we should all be ashamed of allowing this to have happened and stopped! Yes, it is freedom of speech, is it how you want your children to perceive the world? Parents yell, fight and threaten official at their children sports events. Great examples for not only their children other children as well, I think not!
Even the heads of large corporations make being dishonest look extremely profitable to young minds. Even when fired for doing a bad job are rewarded with millions of dollars! Our politicians continue to get paid and even have lucrative retirement plans, they should only draw Social Security like the people who voted them in office. Social Security is going broke yet our politicians get many perks and raise their income, never any shortages there it seems!
Do we continue to influence our youth with GARBAGE IN SO GARBAGE COMES OUT OF THEIR MINDS? Wake Up America!