Bravo to Chuck Norris. It doesn’t take watching much TV or very many movies or strolling through a mall to know that foul language has become the norm in our society. The latest discussion on The View about the N-word has been aired a lot, as has Jesse Jackson’s infamous comment about what he would like to do to Obama. We are sinking to the lowest common denominator rather than rising to the greatest common denominator. It’s time for a change!
Here’s just a snippet of Chuck Norris’s post. Treat yourself and go read the whole thing. Then let’s live it!
Jesse Jackson (on an off-air mic before “Fox & Friends”) and Whoopi Goldberg (and another host on “The View”) have raised the cultural language debate to a new level: Who has the right to say the N-word? Their answer: Blacks can, but whites can’t. Unfortunately, this derogatory debate has degraded into Don Imus on steroids.
I agree with a lot that Whoopi had to say about the imbalances between the races. But I disagree with her for going off on an intentional N-word marathon, which was bleeped out repeatedly in order to demonstrate her point. There’s a reason her diatribe was bleeped and our society still veils our full expression of the N-word: because it still is regarded by most as derogatory and demeaning. (Even among blacks, the N-word obviously can be defamatory, as Jesse Jackson proved when he used it in the same breath he used to describe how he would like to cut off Barack Obama’s genitalia.)
This is more than a race issue and far more than a debate over freedom of speech. When will we learn that just because we can say something doesn’t mean that we should? Once again, we’re confusing liberty for licentiousness. It is a classic example of what happens when a society leaves its moral absolutes: Everything becomes culturally relative, with each deciding what’s right in his own eyes. Language is one more infected arena in America’s societal degradation.
-rlh-
