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Rap, YouTube, Movies, TV shows. It’s not the America we grew up in.

No, it’s not. But in the ‘70s I worked as a teacher in a juvenile prison (a youth center). Two of my students, both white, were murderers. One killed his friend’s mom with an axe and the other, along with his twin killed their stepfather and tried, but failed to kill their stepmother.

They were born in the late 60s when ‘rap’ meant talking to someone, the founder of YouTube hadn’t been born yet and movies and TV didn’t glorify violence.

I believe there have always been monsters in child form among us. But before the internet, stories like my two examples were truly local in nature and the little monsters’ names were always kept quiet.

But yes, what passes for today’s ‘entertainment’ certainly isn’t helping.