Be Careful Little Ears What You Hear

Wow, after reading this article I have become determined to make a difference in peoples lives. The way Whitlock speaks of the murders of not only Sean Taylor, but Darrent Williams and other blacks pretty much sums up this article. He gives his take on how there is a new KKK in our society, a black KKK. What is interesting however, is that they do not kill whites, but people of their own race.
He makes the point near the end that we are the only "group of people who can change the rotten, anti- education, pro-violence culture our kids have adopted." This is so true. Rap music, which Whitlock believes plays a role in the genocide of black men, has become extremely popular among not only blacks, but whites as well. How long will it be until we have a white KKK?
I completely agree with Whitlock's point that we need to make a difference. If we choose to just stand and watch, our society will one day destroy itself. We need to let our kids know that who they hang out with is very important. The Bible says "Bad company corrupts good character." It is the people with bad character who commit these kind of crimes, not the God-fearing, church going, community helping kind of people. We need to raise our children to be the latter of these two groups, not the former. We need to guard their ears so they will not hear the crap played on the radio these days. Contrary to popular belief, what you listen to does effect how you act. If we give them Christian music to listen to, we can protect them early on from the desencitization many experience from rap music. We can make a difference!
Obviously Whitlock uses parallelism in this artice, otherwise it would not have been assigned. In my opinion his best use occurs in the sentence: "When your leading causes of death and dysfunction are murder, ignorance and incarceration, there's no reason to give a free pass to a culture that celebrates murder, ignorance and incarceration." The way Whitlock parallels the causes of death to the whole rap music culture is perfect. This parallel shows the influence rap music has on people. Our society is already ravaged by death because of these murders, ignorances, and incarcerations, so we let the rap music culture become a part of our society. This makes no sense. One plus one equals two, not zero. We already have the one (deaths because of murder, ignorance, and incarceration) so why do we add one (rap music) to it? All this can do is increase the number of deaths, which is why there is "no reason to give a free pass" to it. There has to be a change in what we allow to influence our kids and our own lives. If not, America, not just Detroit, may become the most dangerous place on earth.