Blog Post: The Atlanta Braves Game and Ludacris

There I was at the Atlanta Braves Civil Rights game with my 12-year-old stepson and his little buddy.

After watching a great baseball game and sharing tips with them for their little league careers, we moved down to the front row to watch Luda perform. The performance was part of the annual civil rights game which moves to a different Major League park each year.

How exciting this would be to have a prominent rapper perform for the first time at Turner Field. I was thrilled that a rap artist would be the performer as, Rap/Hip Hop, is the music of the generation who were the recipients of the civil rights fight of the sixties.

As the show started I was further thrilled to see the number of white baseball fans who stayed to watch. I was even more thrilled to see how many young and old knew the words to the songs.But it was too good to be true.

Towards the end Luda performed two songs that although the songs are popular, have words that are questionable and inappropriate for an audience that would unquestionably hold small children and pre teens.

"Move B…h” and “Mu…r, you don’t know me” were performed and even though Luda did not say the curse words the crowd definitely did and song them with vigor and enthusiasm. Now as the adult with two 12-year-olds I was aghast at Luda’s nonchalance at what he had done.

He is obviously smart enough to know that this was a family crowd for he even said so during the show. However, my anger is not at him.

It is directed at those who are defending him and his “right” to free speech. I posted a small comment on Facebook about this and the response was defense of him and one retard compared my displeasure to attacking Hip Hop.

Huh?

Where is the outrage at the fact that in addition to the kids of others who were at the game, kids from Ludacris' foundation were also there? How can a young man who is so talented and smart not know how dangerous and wrong performing those two songs was? 

Look I love Hip Hop but when given the chance to be the headliner at a game celebrating the legacy of civil rights, how can you possibly think it id okay to perform a song saying “Move B....., get out the way”?

However, it does not surprise me. This is where American culture is right now. Joan Rivers has a segment on her show called “B..... Stole my look”. The number 1 song in America is “F...  You” by Cee lo and the list goes on and on.

When hstory is written on the downfall of American civilization it will take note that it happened when we lost all decorum of what was right and wrong, because we wanted to please everyone.  

Men act like women, women act like men. Laws are made to be broken because someone does not have what others have. And entertainment means not pushing the envelope but shredding the envelope until there is no envelope left.

Whatever happened to “mind your mouth in public? Whatever happened to simple rules of couth and public decency? 

We left them behind in our race to be cool and “in."