Just The Genesis
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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MSNBC's and CBS's firing of Don Imus is only the beginning of the "clean-up job" our nation desperately needs to continue.
Don was only one, and probably not really the worst offender, as rude as his evil mind and disposition seemed to be! What made Don seem so bad was his talent for making crude bigotry into a fun and entertainment thing!
But the Herculean job has been started, so now let all clean-minded, courageous souls thank God for the good start, and see to it that we continue to pray and work toward the real national moral "renewal" that millions of us Americans have prayed for many years.
Having been born in 1922, I realize that millions of us in this great land were not born yet when some of our greatest history was being made. America was once a truly great and clean nation! Now the entertainment industry has so polluted us that evil thoughts seem easier to entertain than good and right ones, for most people!
Now we need a revival of basic common decency - to say nothing of a renewal of a vital religious faith that was once the source of the best in family life and every other part of our society.
On the evening news of 4/12, "big wheels" of the radio and television world were doing some basic discussions of our entertainment world. They talked about "hip hop" musicians being in a "different category" from Don Imus, but "in the same gutter" with him and many others. They agreed that the need for the whole entertainment-news industry is the same: A "flushing out of the toxic crud" that is now so commonplace everywhere must happen.
If the cleanup job does not reach into the life of all areas of the nation, then CBS and all the others that have "taken the hit" - along with Don Imus - will have a perfect right to yell, "You hypocrites" to all the rest of us!
The women executives seemed to agree that racism that some black leaders are crying about is not the center of our problem, as degrading as "sexism" is to womanhood now. It is a factor, but our problem is deeper and broader.
Ole' "Pastor Bob" Sez: "Children, we need an old-time revival of good, old-time Christian Religion!" In my humble opinion, nothing else can get us where we all need and want to be.
J. Robert Boggs
Winona Lake, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
MSNBC's and CBS's firing of Don Imus is only the beginning of the "clean-up job" our nation desperately needs to continue.
Don was only one, and probably not really the worst offender, as rude as his evil mind and disposition seemed to be! What made Don seem so bad was his talent for making crude bigotry into a fun and entertainment thing!
But the Herculean job has been started, so now let all clean-minded, courageous souls thank God for the good start, and see to it that we continue to pray and work toward the real national moral "renewal" that millions of us Americans have prayed for many years.
Having been born in 1922, I realize that millions of us in this great land were not born yet when some of our greatest history was being made. America was once a truly great and clean nation! Now the entertainment industry has so polluted us that evil thoughts seem easier to entertain than good and right ones, for most people!
Now we need a revival of basic common decency - to say nothing of a renewal of a vital religious faith that was once the source of the best in family life and every other part of our society.
On the evening news of 4/12, "big wheels" of the radio and television world were doing some basic discussions of our entertainment world. They talked about "hip hop" musicians being in a "different category" from Don Imus, but "in the same gutter" with him and many others. They agreed that the need for the whole entertainment-news industry is the same: A "flushing out of the toxic crud" that is now so commonplace everywhere must happen.
If the cleanup job does not reach into the life of all areas of the nation, then CBS and all the others that have "taken the hit" - along with Don Imus - will have a perfect right to yell, "You hypocrites" to all the rest of us!
The women executives seemed to agree that racism that some black leaders are crying about is not the center of our problem, as degrading as "sexism" is to womanhood now. It is a factor, but our problem is deeper and broader.
Ole' "Pastor Bob" Sez: "Children, we need an old-time revival of good, old-time Christian Religion!" In my humble opinion, nothing else can get us where we all need and want to be.
J. Robert Boggs
Winona Lake, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
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