Profanity with language is no different than cheap
thoughts in music and the other arts. No one complains about the
adults and their old tawdry R & R and our favorite country western
vulgarities. Its one thing for the children but its quite
another for old folks whose brains are not capable of enjoying a
complex musical thought. I don't find one inanity less
inane or appalling than the other. To hear them then complain about
street language when they defend such in their extra-linguistic tastes is
confusing to say the least. I grew up "in the street" and worked my
way out but that included more than mere words. I would suggest that we
stop "calling the kettle black." Television is Entertainment
for the sake of selling soap and cars. What more would you
expect? We reduce great possibilites to mere "free ridership"
for commercial reasons and then complain about the taste being
cheap? Well its supposed to be cheap and appeal to the baser
instincts. That's what selling is all about. Did
anyone see that Tammy Faye has written a new book about how she's
"survived?" I've never seen such "ass-kissing" of an idiot
from all of the serious press in my life. That wasn't a
profanity but a mere statement of fact. I once saw a
Tammy Faye little blond haired rag doll that when pressed screamed in the
ugliest voice you could imagine "Jesus loves you." Its all
down hill from there. That is profane, black English is just
vernacular street language and is as capable of beauty as Dylan, the
Beatles or Frank Sinatra.
REH
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