[Madison]

Originally Posted by TeknoBramha

David Kelly has a very strong point here, let's assume you are the kid watching the video, coming from a not-so good background. What would he/she do?

Well, it's obvious that they'd immediately drop out of school and start breakdancing to make ends meet. This video sends an unambiguous message to the impressionable youth that watch it that says, unequivocally, breakdancing is both acceptable and laudable in this society.

I completely agree that breakdancing such as that shown in this video is both immoral and reprehensible, and further, is responsible for a tear in the fabric of our society. This behavior cannot go on unchallenged. It is of vital importance that we continue to take steps in ensuring that our youth do nothing whatsoever to think for themselves, to examine different ideas, or to know different cultures. I applaud David Kelly and yourself, and those like you, for taking a stand against the indecency and immorality sweeping this nation like a plague -- standing up together to ensure that any human beatbox caught dropping beats be jailed, any child carrying even the smallest piece of cardboard be saved, and the gigantic corporations orchestrating all of this be punished. Congratulations and godspeed.

Seriously, are you kidding? Maybe I missed the boat altogether and it's not the breakdancing that you found offensive or immoral. I thought, for a moment, that it might be the woman wearing a bikini and massaging herself. After all, mainstream media and music wouldn't dare dream of objectifying women in the way that rap music does, right?

If some of you wonder how some families continue to be wealthy and honored for many generations, its because they have a continuing tradition, which has been kept going, and is hard to break.

I've always wondered why we equate wealthy with honorable. All along, that's what I thought FIRST was trying to change, but what do I know?

The moral of the story, kids, is that in no universe is Park Slope "gangsta rap," nor are any of the real "gangsta rappers" any more dangerous to the health and well-being of our children and our society than any of the myriad of really screwed up messages people from a "better-than-average" background send out daily. Really, what's more damaging than bombarding people with messages of moral superiority, anyway?