Comments on: Yes Music & Violence, A connection? https://thyblackman.com/2012/08/12/yes-music-violence-a-connection/ Black News 24/7 Online for the Black Community. Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:05:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Deeann D. Mathews https://thyblackman.com/2012/08/12/yes-music-violence-a-connection/comment-page-1/#comment-27450 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:05:43 +0000 http://thyblackman.com/?p=31495#comment-27450 Music cannot by itself drive an innocent person to kill — but on the other hand, what we feed our minds on will manifest in our behavior as surely as what we feed our bodies manifests in our physical health. If a person, particularly a young person, only feeds his mind on materialism, sexism, and violence, he or she will begin to manifest this behavior — and this is the most heinous thing about the bastardization of hip hop, the taking of something that should be culturally nourishing and turning it into something that destroys the minds and morals of those that spend a good deal of time absorbing it.

“As a man thinks in his heart, so is he” — works on our young ladies too. We need to take ourselves and our children well away from all music that does not uplift us and our people — the music industry will bend to our demands or become irrelevant when we get serious about what we let into our minds.

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