Black In America - A CNN speacial

[ckhthankgod]

By the way, here is a good example of some good Hip-Hop out there:MySpace.com - Shadrach Kabango - London, CA - Hip Hop / Rap / Indie - www.myspace.com/shad

I found out about this brother while listening to a urban radio station from Toronto called Flow 93.5. Brother Watching is the joint. Also, he was born in Kenya, but raised in London, Ontario.

Also, try the Strange Fruit Project from Waco, Texas and Point Blank from Canada's first housing project called Regent Park in Toronto. For Christian artists, try www.crossmovementrecords.com

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by Ga.Peach

I have 11 grandkids and about to have 2 greatgrandkids . And I can tell you that this generation has a lot of problems that i never even imagined . Too much exsposure to too many things yong people don't need .

It's true that the world has changed a lot even in my short 45-year lifetime. The internet, electronic games, cell phones, easy-to-obtain drugs in school, popular music which advocates what I would consider questionable behavior, etc.

I'm still young enough to have grown up with personal computers in school (in my case Apple II's), and we did have some issues with drugs when I was growing up in the 70's (mostly pot), but both things are far more available to kids today, and the media kids see everwhere provides temptations that I don't think we had to experience while we were growing up.

I'm glad you can be possitive and so am I to a certain extent . But there is nothign possitive about our kids being in danger of so many illnesss. If we don't acknowledge their is a problem it will not be fixed .And it won't go away.

I think awareness and education is the key. Letting your kids (or grandkids) know what is expected and what you believe to be right and wrong, and enforcing those rules in areas which you actually control (like your house).

Outside of that, they're pretty much on their own anyway, so they'll have to make their own decisions. You can control that to a certain extent .. or at least try ... but sometimes that will backfire severely. Many of the folks who went to the finest private schools grew up to dislike and defy the system, not respect it, and some of the most irresponsible people I knew in college were folks who grew up in wealthy "controlled" environments. Once they were free of that control, they had a young lifetime worth of steam to blow off, and a few of then crashed and burned while doing it...