Enough is enough

I read this recently… is he overreacting? Or telling it like it is?

Thoughts?

Enough is Enough
Ben L. Amos

I’ve had all I can stand and I cants stand no more! I am angry, hurt, dismayed and utterly disappointed at the so called adults in this nation. We have sacrificed our greatest resource into the raging infernos of our meticulously constructed Deities of money, convenience, entertainment, irresponsibility, and self realization. We adults; parents, counselors, entertainers, teachers, politicians so easily shun our responsibility to protect the emotions, minds, souls of our children; passing the blame like a hot potato one to another.

I am amazed and incensed at the what was once viewed as vulgar, inappropriate, and too “mature” for children and young adults is now cute. I listened the other day in utter disbelief as a girl of 6 called into a local radio station in Southern California to introduce the #2 song for the week labeled “Smack That”. I was appalled as I heard the parents or whatever adults watching her in the background laughing and applauding and the DJ proud and happy announced that was the youngest guest DJ. Us adults told our kids “have sex just protect yourself” now sexually transmitted disease and babies having babies is an epidemic. Uhh hello, do you not understand that kids only hear what they want to hear. (Have sex)

We adults have said “hey they are only games“, gratuitously violent, bloody, and graphic in nature but games nevertheless. Now kids are massacring one another in schools nationwide, 5 year olds are bludgeoning their 2 year old siblings to death, and teenagers are posting messages on the web to have their parents murdered. We adults have said “hey calm down Mr. and Mrs. Stuffy they’re only songs, come on kids will be kids, this is America and we don’t believe in censorship.” Now kids across America and the globe, Black, Asian, White, and Latino all want to be “hard”, dress and act like Hoe’s, smoke Black and Tan cigars, to imitate the neoteric ubiquitous bad boy that permeate the media from video’s to radio.

Money hungry egocentric entertainers shift the blame to the parents, uninvolved clueless parents who allow their children to play games in the “Grand Theft Auto” genre like they’re Ms. Pac-Man blame the teachers, cynical unimaginative teachers blame the politicians and the government, politicians void of integrity, guts, and loyalty to their nation blame, well other politicians of the opposite. Our churches spend multi millions on sanctuaries and seminars while allocating less than 5 to 10% of their budgets to youth programs.

I boldly declare that you, America, have been duped, hoodwinked, sold acres of worthless barren swamp land, the aciphex generic cananda wool has been pulled over your eyes; someone sucker-punched you, they pulled a fast one on you! They told you not to discipline your children; “let em’ make their own choices.” They said don’t censor what they hear they are going to hear it anyway. They told you and you conceded that truth is relative and religion and morality is restrictive, suppressive, and no longer and has any bearing on a civilized society. They told you music and movies are simply entertainment and they have no bearing on the decision making process.

Now the violence, drug abuse, teen anger and rebellion, the trend of high dropouts, teen pregnancy, and teen mental illness currently permeates every social, economic, racial, ethnic and geographical people group in America. My soul grieves for our children, my eyes remain in a perpetual state of moisture and my the anger percolates at my fellow parents, politicians, teachers, and entertainment community who have allowed and many even perpetuated the emotional rape and molestation of the innocence of America’s children.

My boys have been robbed of the chance to gaze at amazement at the body of a young woman for the first time because at the tender age of 5 it is thrown in his face at the everyone grocery line. My teen age daughters have been denied the euphoric and innocent feeling of when a young man gently grabs her hand and ask her to dance because Disney Channel and Nick Jr. says they should be doing that at 10 not 16. When she turns on the radio she is lyrically violated and all of society from 17 Magazine to Cosmo says echo’s those rhythmic chants saying to young women that it is normal for a guy best line to be “what to do ms? Uhh when can I hit that?” Someone must do something about it and I guarantee I will be one of those people if I have to knock on doors to get people to wake up so be it.

Ben Amos
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