What would Martin say? Martin Luther King Jr. could never have anticipated many of the realities facing the African-American community today, says Dwight N. Hopkins, a theologian at the University of Chicago. King did not know that the black community would be afflicted with AIDs, crack cocaine and the importation of assault weapons. Or that a middle- and upper-class segment of the African-American population, benefiting from the civil rights movement, would be absorbed into mainstream American society. Or that many blacks would revert to "provincial preaching and silent witness." Hopkins finds especially regrettable the impact of popular culture in African-American life. "If Congress passed a law, subsequently signed by the president and upheld by the Supreme Court, that removed cable network television services from black homes, African Americans would start guerilla warfare to overthrow the government," Hopkins says (Theology Today, April). from the Christian Century, May, 2008
In a recent discussion about what' s on TV, who watches what, and what programs will return next season, it occurred to me that, for the most part, TV watching wastes time and we gain little. Altho' I have been known to rent 5 movies and veg in a chair for hours on a week end. But, mostly, it's a waste of valuable time and energy. What say, you?
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Except for Boston Legal, Family Guy, House, & Desperate Housewives, it is a waste of time.
South Park is always worth watching.
"If Congress passed a law, subsequently signed by the president and upheld by the Supreme Court, that removed cable network television services from black homes," all Americans should be up in arms. Red and yellow black and white should have the same rights.
The Simpsons is also an excellent television program.
As I said before, there's nothing sexier than a closing from Alan Shore........grrrrrrrrrowwwww!
What's all this fuss I keep hearing about violins on television? Why don't parents want their kids to see violins on television? I thought the Leonardo Bernstein concerts were just lovely, now, if they only show violins on television after ten o'clock at night, the little babies will all be asleep and they won't learn any music appreciation. They'll learn to play guitars, and bongo drums and go to Africa and join these rock'n roll outfits and they won't drink milk! I think there should be more violins on television and less game shows, it's terrible the way...
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