Maybe it's Not "Just Talk". . .

Well Sports Fans, maybe what you Say does matter? oOo oOo

I usually don't even take the time of day to give any attention to so-called "pop culture" - precisely because so much of it is so foul these days. As a classical musician and teacher I've given up for years trying to talk sense against the Tide of Turd that passes for "culture".

I've pretty much written-off the bastard rants of most media. These blathering idiots and commentators over the airwaves don't deserve my attention and I don't usually give it. oOo oOo

I don't even know who this Imus character is, but he seems to be of the same ilk as Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh, and other shock-jock types spewing forth over their own horns.

And as far as being avoidable-- they are just a small part of that sprawling clan of nonstop talkie-talkies: the radio DJ's, morning-show hosts and !crickey! all-manner of broadcast "sports" and "news"casters.

You've heard the outrage now about the radio show comments re: female basketball players at Rutgers (where I almost went to grad school). The phrase about "nappy-haired ho's" isn't the only thing-- at least he didn't use the M-, F-, B- S- and whatever-else-words like "some folk" do constantly! oOo

When I heard the Context of the larger banter between the 2-3 men (?) in the studio, I can really hear how far out of line they were, and how they got sucked deeper into the pit of their own wording. oOo

The Tongue can be a mighty evil-doer, and get you all twisted up. And

what's most often on your tongue gives evidence of what's in your Heart.

oOo I agree it's time to have a Dialogue on racism in speech and attitudes-- but I hate that hackneyed term, so let's Just Talk: oOo oOo

• Just Talk: about the loss of (Black) culture. There used to be a dignity and celebration about rising above and beyond oppression, ignorance and hatred.
• Just Talk: about the poisonous speech put out by those Crap cd mongers and popular Posers -- our environment is infected nearly completely with their disease(s).
• Just Talk: about wide-spread "tolerance" [sic] capitulation and participation by cultural wannabees in the lowest forms of gutter-ghetto thought and behavior. So-called White culture (from pre-teen to college-age) has embraced it:

the "Life"-- violence, hate; the "Look"-- slummy 'n slutty, with slimy bling; "hoppin, tripping, cappin" violence to Everyone, not women only; glorifying greed, crime and perversion.

• Just Talk: about how we are so desensitized to anger, mean-spirited joking, demoralizing talk and gestures.
• Just Talk: about the demeaning of (all of our) culture on TV and "drama/movies/plays"-- like in

The Sopranos: those idiot foul-stenched examples of bad mean White people: disgusting vermin of mob and crime gangs.

And now The Black Donnellys (who/whatever "they" are...?) who are not Black and probably not Irish either-- anyway no one would want to claim them...violent, putrid, immature, disgusting low-life specimens.

• Just Talk: about how tolerant we are of sick violence, graphic and hurtful depictions of cruelty, shock and even the threat of pain-- inflicted on us, by us! -- through even mainstream TV shows and countless slasher/shocker/scare-tactic stories and films. [Mr. Stephen King, as a kingpin of your "genre" you are not without blame...]
• Just Talk: about why the entertainment industry thinks we want and/or like to be "provided" with these kinds of stories and characters? OK, it's to appeal to the worst of humanity, and cater to our basest instincts, thank you very much. Mr. Media, take it, here's my money and my soul.
• Just Talk: about our animal-breeding prison system, that great fermentation hole for gross and evil: the gangs: Black, White, Skinhead, Chicano, Whatever ethnic-stripe they're all bad; drugs, rapes, murder and shame of other inmates by equally evil men.

• Let's NOT Just Talk: about anger, apathy, racism, bigotry, intolerance [ or that shoved-down-your-throat "progressive tolerance" of anyone's aberrant behavior either], corruption, immorality, poverty, injustice and hate, etc. >> [ Read the comments to this post, some goodies... ]
  
• Just Talk: ain't enuff! Real change can only come through the heart > to inform the mind > which can correct our life actions > and finally, to renovate our spirit. oOo oOo

It's Personal, people! And it's Impossible! [Uh-oh]

True Christians know that as bad as society is, as bad as our culture on the streets, in our schools and in our homes can ever get-- the solution is not in external control of groups and systems, but of the individual. oOo

Only God can transform our lives-- and

God Don't Never Make No Junk in the first place!

oOo Moral decisions and consequences are nurtured and realized within. Our experience of life and other people, good or bad, to honor or curse, is felt inside of each of us. We must pay better, closer Attention to what is really inside of us, where it comes from, and how to be rid of "it". oOo

We need, most of all, Good Attention-- attention to what is true, good, right, pure, noble and admirable in all other people, the life around us and in us.

And as large as our problems of race and sexism and pain inflicted on human beings in any form are, or may become, we can (re)turn to God and (re)pent so that from here on we Can speak the Truth and not Just Talk! oOo oOo