Burn Burn Burn!
Both rap music and video games are under fire (literally) in Newport News, Virginia courtesy of Rev. Richard Patrick (never trust people w/ two first names, I say...). Both video games and rap music are to blame for the crime wave that has afflicted his congregation.... something that a good old fashioned burning should solve:
We are considering having something similar to a rally where parents and children can bring CDs and video games that they consider are destructive to the mind set of our youth and have a burning...
Young people are being influenced by what they see and what they hear. They are being influenced by television ... television and videos are telling young people a vision but something that's not reality...
[Violent media] has a tremendous influence on young people and violence. That's basically all they see. Most of them try to emulate what they see, when in reality, the people they see don't even live in those communities. Some of the rappers they see on TV portraying crime don't live in the urban areas — they live in the suburbs somewhere. It's all a facade.
