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Aaron – “Mind pollution” is exactly what tv is. The language, the twisted values, the commercials, the “edgy” (read: lawless) concepts…it’s all just junk that no one neeeeeds to see. I may just have to borrow that term from you in regular conversation.

White and black youths alike would do far better to have the idiot box turned off, no matter who is on TV.

My family went without TV starting 2 years ago. At the time, I have to admit to feeling some trepidation – I mean, it seemed like such a “radical” move to ban the box from our home. But once you do it, you realize how little you miss it, and that life without the box is what is really “normal”.

Before, we used to just watch the tube no matter what was on – it was just a habit. Now, my family and I have so much more time, both together as a family and for our own private time. A major source of mind pollution has been shut down. I would encourage everyone to take the plunge – and for Mr Mfume to get a clue!

About the TV thing, my wife and I chucked our TV when it died about a year ago.. that had many benefits: more time talking instead of being zombified and more time reading. Reading not only for us but for our kids too! We’re reading the chronicles of Narnia almost every night, and at first we thought their attention span couldn’t handle it, but surprisingly they are able to follow and understand.

i challenge other young families to try this out!

It seems a great shame for children to waste away watching someone else’s imaginary life rather than live their own. What do we expect when we turn over the training of our children to an industry that only cares for them as a marketing demographic?

I got some interesting commentary on my Race LASIK article. To recap briefly, the argument is that our society isn’t color-blind, that racism still exists, and that as a result efforts to remedy racial discrimination and disparities need to be color-…

Two suggestions.

1. Set up a mirror in close proximity to your television. Close enough to be able to view your own reflection or the reflection of another as we sit and “veg out.”

2. For believers, use the litmus test of the presence of our Heavenly Father. Who are we glorifying through our tube time???

http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2005/03/02/let-2/

Also see the “About” page.

I’d love to hear more about your thoughts on the term “African American.” Have you posted on this?

Blessings to you my friend.

A case in point is Students Rising Above, a local non-profit organization dedicated to “providing educational resources to high school students who are overcoming staggering obstacles to pursue their education and their dreams for a better life.”

There you will read stories about students who have gone through everything “bad” that life could throw at them that are today attending major colleges and universities and doing well there.

Then take LaShawn’s suggestion and copy the Jackson column far and wide.

I’d be in trouble if my self-esteem was based on what I saw on television.

I used to watch the Brady Bunch. I thought it was cool that everytime the kids did something wrong, the parents would talk it out with them. After I saw that, I did something wrong and my parents gave me a wallop on the buttocks. From that moment on, I knew tv had no basis in reality.