I don't really care WHO stood up to talk about how blacks (it's not only blacks, it's EVERYONE) need to get it together.
Our moral standards in this country are getting lower and lower every day and I believe one of the problems that this is happening is because of the MTV attitude that our children today are growing up with as a role model. Many, many parents in this country...white, black, latino, whatever can do their very best to raise their children in a loving, caring and nurturing environment and they can still disrespect others because of the peers they are subjected to. Children today are growing up too soon. I see 10 yr old kids at the mall trying to act like a thug and young girls have no respect for themselves anymore. What happened to the strong woman that I grew up seeing in the 70's, who wouldn't take any crap from a man...let alone stand there and let him call her a b*tch and a ho and think that's normal?? If one of my peers had said that to me back in the 70s, I would have busted him right in the mouth. Most girls these days are nothing but toys for guys to use like a whore. No wonder. Look at their so-called "role models".

And since when are most gangsta rap music companies owned by white men? Oprah had a lot of them on her show about 6 months ago and none of them were white that I can remember. Parents need to get involved in their kids' lives. They need to prohibit materials and actions that are immoral in their homes and start acting like a parent instead of a friend to their child. I never allowed MTV, VH1 or any music or materials that promoted drug use, prostitution, gangs, cop killing, etc. into my home at any time and I explained to my children WHY. I promoted artists that brought people UP, not down. And as I said before, I don't care WHO said it...at least someone had the guts to stand up.

**Teachers need a wake up call?** Are you serious? Teachers are only as strong as the administration, who is only as strong as the adminstration building who is controlled by parents that either don't show up until their kids are in trouble or threaten to sue at the drop of a hat!!!! Stop trying to sue because your kids are too lazy to do the work and earn failing grades. Make your kids do their homework. Teach your kids morals. Teach your kids to call their teacher by their names instead of "Miss" and "Mister". Teach your kids that you actually have to pick up a book and do homework or study after school hours at home. Teach your kids that rules are their for their safety not because "the man wants to hold you down". Teach your kids to respect adults. Teach your kids not to cut in line at lunch and then complain because the lines are too long. Teach your kids that a person making a face at you is not a legitimate reason to fight. Teach your kids that wearing their pants so far down their back side that we all have to see their underwear is wrong. Teach your kids that when a principal or teacher gives an instruction that they follow it without talking back or arguing. Teach your kids to turn their work in on time. Teach your kids that when they mess up, they must get in trouble. Dont' come up to school and threaten to sue so that they get out of trouble. Are you going to follow them around your whole life and threaten to sue everyone that "wrongs" your child? Teach your kids that cussing loud in the hallways is actually wrong. Teach your kids to clean up after themselves in the cafeteria. Teach your kids to bring school supplies to school every day. Teach your kids that "there was traffic" is not a legitimate excuse to be late. Teach your kids to speak and write proper English when they do their school and not write in Instant Message or Text language. Buy your kids a watch so they don't have to get out their cell phones to see what time it is. Teach your kids that purple and pink hair is not a natural hair color. Teach your kids that joining a gang is not cool. Teach your kids that throwing trash on the floor at school makes someone else's mother or father pick it up. Teach your kids to do graffitti in YOUR bathroom, not the school bathroom. Teach your kids that police officers are their to protect you. Teach your kids that no one should say the N-word. Teach your kids not to get tattoos. Teach your daughters to dress like proper young ladies. Teach your sons that girls should be addressed with words that are not "bitches" or "ho's". Eat dinner as a family. Talk to your kids about what happened at school that day. Act interested other than when they get in trouble. Don't always assume that your son or daughter is telling the truth about something that happened at school. Don't let your children have children and dump them with Grandma and live their lives as normal teenagers. They made a choice, they need to live with it. Teach your children to better themselves, not just sit around and complain. I could go on all day. It makes me sick to hear people say teachers need to wake up when it is the parents that are causing so many problems in our schools. Come on parents. Wake up.