Shawty Lo 11 Kids With 10 Women, If you have never heard of Shawty Lo, then you're fortunate and likely a person with enough self-respect and dignity to not watch so-called "reality" shows, most of which have become the new vulgarity of modern American culture.
You are also, though, woefully unaware of a man (in age only) who illustrates just how far into a massive national cesspool we have moved and in particular the looming threat posed to the foundation of our society, the traditional family..REPORTED.
Lo, born one Carlos Walker, is a rap music artist -- shocking, I know -- and was on the verge of bringing his harem and brood to the Oxygen cable channel. The name of the would-be show, All My Babies' Mamas, alludes to the rap/hip-hop culture's name for a woman -- a baby mama -- who bears children out of wedlock.
This isn't Murphy Brown, although a fair view of history will demonstrate that former Vice President Dan Quayle was absolutely correct when he asserted that the fictional TV character did not typify the vast majority of single mothers.
The cast for All My Babies Mamas was Lo, 10 women with whom he presumably had children, and the 11 children from those interludes. Apparently, they all live together in some sort of urban communal setting, and the show -- like so many reality shows -- would have portrayed the actual or manufactured drama of living in such conditions.
The Oxygen channel is owned by NBC Universal, one of the largest corporate media conglomerates in the world (for all of the liberals who hate corporations, it's funny that media corporations like NBC Universal don't seem to ever earn their condemnation).
A public clamor arose, and the show has never aired. That would be the end of it.
But last week, a host for one of NBC Universal's other interests, MSNBC, explained that the "private notion of children" was repugnant to educating them and, moreover, America would be better off with a "collective notion" of children. Your child is my child and vice versa.
Yes, in the minds of NBC Universal, MSNBC, and the host, Melissa Harris-Perry, children are fungible. Like a pallet of bricks, one is more or less the same as another.
It'd be one thing to say that we all have a responsibility to watch over children to ensure that they do not come to some harm. Once the weather breaks -- and, have faith in God, it will -- there will be children gamboling around our neighborhood, some with their bike training wheels off for the first time; others playing tag; and still more shooting hoops in their driveways.
When that happens, parents, sometimes in small clusters, watch over the children as the elders go about planting flower beds, or sweeping out the garage, or washing the last bits of salt off the car. This Normal Rockwell-type setting is something many of us are blessed to witness each year.
And there are other occasions when "parenting" is needed, especially in schools -- although no teacher or school administrator should have to be the default parent in terms of teaching a child self-respect, respect for others, and compassion. That job is for a child's parents.
Those are not, though, the "collective notion" to which Harris-Perry referred, or the ideology of NBC Universal. Rather, the "collective notion" is one of mandatory government intervention into the lives of any family not deemed to be correctly raising a child.
That "notion" flies directly in the face of American values, which more than any other culture recognizes the primacy of parents to direct and control the upbringing of their children.
Despite such long-standing tradition in the Judeo-Christian Western world, NBC Universal, manifested by its selection of programming and hosts, is clearly pushing its opposing "notion" on viewers, however vulgar, like Shawty Lo, or pseudo-intellectual, like Harris-Perry.
For the time being, NBC Universal's ideology is merely dross, but the leftist-progressive movement won't stop until it can invade the sanctity of the family itself and dictate, from a "collectivist notion," how you raise your children.
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