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The Aesthetic Cesspool of America (Keep Kiddies Away!)
DC Clothesline ^ | 11/23/2013 | Dana R. Casey

Posted on 11/24/2013 4:24:49 AM PST by IbJensen

Edited on 11/24/2013 5:16:49 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

A young student stands in the front of my classroom ready to perform. The students have just turned in their journals which contain four types of entries: literary, current events, composition, and creative. Students must present one of the entries to the class and this young man chooses to present his creative entry. This particular student is one of the really good kids; polite, eager to learn and participate, well-spoken, and hard-working. To enhance his performance, he asks the class for a beat. They all concede and begin to pound the table in a rhythm I have heard thousands of times before: in my class, in movies, driving down the street, on the radio I sometimes let my children listen to. It is a primal beat, the most basic one can imagine.


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Rap and Obama go together like evil and filth!

I have felt for years that our art, music, and movies are failing to lift us up as a society, rather they shove what passes for society deeper into a sewer.

Reading posts on almost any website shows how insulting and uncivil we have become to each other. The recent pastime of negro youths sneaking up behind unsuspecting and decent people then knocking them out for sport comes to mind.

I feel like I’m living through a bad dream, with so many of our societal links imploding. Unfortunately, I don’t think I’m going to wake up from it until we all are shoved into the fema camps. Republicans stand around their Congressional chambers apparently oblivious to the evil that vomits forth from this Kikuyu White Hut. They are guilty simply due to their inactivity to lead America out of this putrid swamp.

According the the evil Democrats and the fat cats that run the Republicrat Party, the religious right are the whack jobs.

Show me the way to the next whiskey bar… we are doomed.

1 posted on 11/24/2013 4:24:49 AM PST by IbJensen
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To: IbJensen

It’s hard to believe that western culture has sunk so quickly. I am remembering when Rob and Laura could not share a bed on The Dick Van Dyke Show. It hasn’t been all that long - such a plummet.

Amazing how the left mocks and rebels against God, yet produces all of the evidence of what happens to society when they give Him the boot.


2 posted on 11/24/2013 4:34:52 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: JudyinCanada

Sadly, this, combined with our economic woes and political corruption, is how dictators rise


3 posted on 11/24/2013 4:38:28 AM PST by LMAO ("Begging hands and Bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"...Anthem from Rush)
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To: IbJensen

Ann Barnhardt on this topic:

http://www.barnhardt.biz/2013/11/21/the-one-about-how-the-raphip-hop-culture-must-be-exterminated/


4 posted on 11/24/2013 4:40:59 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: IbJensen

>> I sit and wonder how, after 30 years, our society could still consider rap to be an art form worthy of imitation or admiration, about how this decent young man can feel it is O.K. to grab his “package” in front of a class.

I could answer that, if I chose to; the answer is simple and easy to state.

However politically correct society (including even FR) can’t handle this truth.

So let’s all wring our hands and continue to ask each other “why”, instead of confronting the unpleasant truth head on.


5 posted on 11/24/2013 4:44:26 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: IbJensen

• From the Rapper Million $$ Bill....

Kill the Rapper,Kill him dead
Shoot the scoundrel in the head

Crush his throat with his gold chain
Watch the video of his pain.

Hate the bastard, the illigit
Mouthing nonsensense, verbal shit

The story here that we must tell
Let the sob rot in hell


6 posted on 11/24/2013 4:44:52 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: IbJensen

We come to another Sunday when frauds and hypocrites fill the pews of American ‘churches’...


7 posted on 11/24/2013 4:51:31 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: IbJensen

“As I the days of Noah...”


8 posted on 11/24/2013 5:06:38 AM PST by paint_your_wagon
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When I first heard rap 20 years ago or more, I thought it was a passing fad and would die out quickly because it was stupid. It is now worse than stupid and more popular than ever. If that was what I listened to all day and night, I might behave like some “urban youth” do.


9 posted on 11/24/2013 5:14:16 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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As society accepts crap as valid art, our culture is finding itself in the toilet.

There's a reason that "crap" rhymes with "rap".

10 posted on 11/24/2013 5:19:58 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: who knows what evil?

So, what you are saying this bright and cheerful Sunday is that only hypocrites go to church today?

What did that comment have to do with the evil perpetrated by the satanist rap? Perhaps you’re saying that those that criticize rap music are hypocrites?

Oh. I get it. You’re a rapper.


11 posted on 11/24/2013 5:29:32 AM PST by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: who knows what evil?

It’s their morning. They can do as they please.


12 posted on 11/24/2013 5:30:51 AM PST by healy61
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It’s their morning. They can do as they please.

Where did I say they couldn't?

13 posted on 11/24/2013 5:32:52 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: IbJensen

Besides being idiotic, vulgar and misogynistic, rap is not music and is just talking with some background noise.


14 posted on 11/24/2013 5:34:21 AM PST by The Great RJ
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Perhaps you’re saying that those that criticize rap music are hypocrites?

No...what I am saying is that all the adults that listen to this crap or allow their children to listen will turn around and attend 'church' every Sunday, thinking that will make things alright with G-d. Hypocrites.

I look forward to your apology for calling me a 'rapper'.

15 posted on 11/24/2013 5:36:55 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: IbJensen

The good, the true, and the beautiful have been honored and pursued since Plato first presented such ideas in the 4th century BC. Humankind has felt that this triad must not only be understood, but lived and actively pursued in order for the human race to continue evolving. If these values are ignored, humankind will stop evolving and begin devolving instead as is perhaps happening in society now as is reflected in rap.
Devolution...


16 posted on 11/24/2013 5:39:47 AM PST by Recompennation (Constitutional protection for all not just selectively for Democrats.)
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The images, language, and rhythm in these songs show man reacting only to the gut and the groin;

higher thoughts of the heart, the mind, and the soul are completely disregarded.

The best description of rap "music" that I have ever heard.

The music that I grew up with (50s and 60s) exalted women and monogamous love.

I have a hard time believing that women really prefer being treated as sex toys or barnyard animals.

17 posted on 11/24/2013 5:43:29 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Remember who the real enemy is!)
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To: JudyinCanada

As a side note, the first married couple to share a bed (chastely) on TV were the Munsters


18 posted on 11/24/2013 5:49:11 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: IbJensen

As Ella Fitzgerald said “ You can call it rap but don’t you call it rap music”


19 posted on 11/24/2013 5:51:31 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: IbJensen

Haven’t we built society to this? Education has almost been legislated out of schools. There is legislation that has done much to destroy the family. Women are so eager to be equal to or greater than and hold the self higher than the family— everything for career and self glory?

An example of what I look at and wonder about is Cher and Chastity. Is part of Chastity’s problem a feeling that she could never live up to and achieve what her mother did? How much did Cher hold herself above her child? Wasn’t Cher’s fame, sexuality and her own greatness most important to her? In Cher’s recent tweets her rabid beliefs still shine through. Cher is back out there trying to compete as a 30 something, nobody seems to want to age gracefully.

I realize it’s not all kids but aren’t most kids raised more recently with public education ill equipped to write beautiful ‘art’? Is some of all this new ‘art’ in your face rebellion at the selfishness of what our society has been since maybe the 70’s or so?

I really believe if we started putting value back into the traditional family, much would begin to heal itself. We need God and family and without this, we will never have a healthy country or beautiful and thoughtful art. We will have increasing rebellion and ugliness unless we change. It’s communism, isn’t it? To destroy the family, religion and holding the ugly and meaningless up as art?


20 posted on 11/24/2013 5:56:19 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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