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Slap-Boxing With Jesus

Stop Bitchin’

Since Slap-Boxing With Jesus is a blog for the peoples, I feel it is necessary for those same peoples to convey their own message. So without further adieu, here's Pennsylvania's own Philly Representative...

You know what's wrong with the world today? Everyone is so sensitive; they cry more than Cam after getting tapped up by Tru-Life. You can't say anything without fear of offending someone. Then we make these crybabies a little bit more sensitive every day by trying to "protect" them.

We are grooming our children to be weak pathetic crybabies. When I was growing up your parents beat you with blunt objects when you did something wrong and you learned never to do that shit again. Now if you hit your kid you're "abusing" them. The scrawny, four-eyed mathematical genius kids didn't make the basketball team unless they had crazy game; now if your child doesn't make the basketball team you sue the school for a few hundred grand. If you lost in a race, you tried harder the next time. Now everyone wins a prize, even the fat asthmatic kid whom didn't even finish the race because he was too busy inhaling a cheese steak...

Life is full of upsets and disappointments and trying to protect people from them is the wrong thing to do. Just like the old adage says, "That which does not kill us, makes us stronger"; So why are we getting so upset over such trivial things as words, when there are much larger problems in our world such as poverty, violence, drug addiction, disease, global warming, etc.?

By now, half of you are wondering, "What in the name of the almighty Tupac Shakur does this have to do with Hip-Hop?” Let me explain. Don Imus is a redneck piece of trailer trash if I've ever seen one and he deserved to be fired but Al Sharpton has gone too far. As soon as Imus threw Hip-Hop into the ring, Sharpton had a complete system meltdown. He knew he was either going to have to admit he was wrong, try to explain the difference between rappers and rednecks using those terms, or throw punches at hip-hop as well. This little Afro Oompa Loompa chose the wrong one.

Little mister freedom fighter himself is barking up the wrong tree. Eliminating offensive words altogether is not the right way to go; Instead, he should have fought against the "stop snitchin'" trend or all the talk of gunplay, violence, and other illegal activities in hip-hop. By removing these offensive words from our vocabularies, you do nothing but weaken us and violate our right to freedom of speech.  Once you eliminate one word, people will start to find another word offensive and the stupid trend will continue.

 So you ask, "well what are we supposed to do about the offensive language?" Simple, teach people how to deal with ignorant racist people that use this type of language and build an immunity to it. No matter how hard you try, people are not going to completely stop using these types of words. Teaching someone how to deal with it will do him or her a much bigger service than shielding him or her from it. In conclusion, we should all tell Mr. Sharpton to leave hip-hop alone and go back to the chocolate factory unless he plans to help us fix the more important issues.

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