(ThyBlackMan.com) Bill O’Reilly is to the news world what a Justin Bieber headline is to a non-Belieber; after a while, the redundancy can and will take a toll mentally. To further add mental restraint onto the pile of already yay-high Bill O’ Reilly discrepancies, O’Reilly decides to attack Beyoncé’s resurgence, alluding that the singer is responsible for the continuance of black girls being pregnant in their teenage years. I know, right, another outlandish statement by Bill, so what is there to be surprised for? It’s in O’Reilly’s job description to say ridiculous things for shock, but maybe this specific comment is a little too far.
Whether you’re a believer and follower of the rhetoric of statistics or not, it’s not hard to see that there is an issue within the black community of frequent teen pregnancies. High school youth becoming pregnant is
becoming the norm; more common than the previous years. While an easy target is to blame a musician, it’s rather ridiculous to blame a music titan such as Beyoncé to say the least.
It long goes with the theory that entertainers are role models and inspirational leaders. While it is indeed, acceptable to admire from afar an entertainer for their accomplishments, propelling role model duties onto star singers, rappers and actors are too much to bear and unfair to the entertainers. Beyoncé’s occupation is to entertain and to a degree, be politically correct. To skip over the chain of responsibility and blame Beyoncé is just absurd.
This brings about this major problem. If you skip over the “village” of those who could be in our young teens life; mother, possibly the father, teachers, preachers, friends, family, and friends of family, then how could it be possible that Beyoncé can abound influence in a four minute song? The argument is tiresome and ridiculous, and O’Reilly’s claim just ignores the responsibility that a teen’s support system is supposed to carry out and allows the gullible to place blame on Beyoncé and not on them.
Passing the baton on blame is frequent in the African American community and with O’Reilly placing his view points as only a right thinker would; it pulls the void of fixing the problem into an unnecessary boundary. Silly protests and other unneeded miscellaneous behavior could follow. Comments like these can make a life of their own, i.e. Delores Tucker.
This generation’s thinking isn’t on par with the previous generations; religion isn’t as important, casual sex more prevalent, and no one cares if their friends or anyone else are homosexuals. As the village, it’s the card that we are dealt, not Beyonce’s, whose job is to sing, dance and entertain for a hefty paycheck. O’Reilly’s claim is another tactic targeted at African Americans to pass the blame from themselves to not face the burden of not being better leaders for our young people. Meanwhile, I’m sure Beyonce isn’t the least bit worried about those comments, and neither should we.