I made the mistake of letting my 12 year old daughter rent the movie "Bring It On" yesterday. Now, my expectations about anything coming out of Hollywood couldn't be any lower, but this one even shocked me. It appeared pretty innocuous- typical high-school drama about competition between cheerleading squads, marketed and directed at the movie-rabid 11-18 girl market. First of all, it was rated PG-13, but the movie was full of cursing and sexual references. It featured gratuitous use of the "S" word, and lots of references to the lead character as "white girl." Brief synopsis of the plot: gorgeous blonde cheerleader, captain of the squad at her nice, virtually all-white high school (the only exception shown being an asian girl who talked and acted just like the other cheerleaders), has to transfer to a virtually all black and hispanic school when her father loses his job. The predicatable drama revolves around whether she'll join the non-white school's cheerleading squad. The beautiful blonde girl ends up ditching her white friends (who, of course, are portrayed as snobbish and not real friends, especially the new head cheerleader) and her white boyfriend, who is the starting QB on the football team. She learns to love her new non-white environment, even though it is realistically portrayed during the first half of the film, with the blacks and hispanics treating her terribly, calling her "white girl" incessantly, talking of "cutting" people, and featuring a black boy who grabs her butt every time he sees her. In the hands of concerned white people, this movie could have had a great message. Unfortunately, outside of perhaps Mel Gibson, no white filmmaker will ever make those kinds of points in their movies. Instead, we get the tired old, hit 'em over the head with it propaganda- girl leaves white boyfriend for new hispanic one (at least he was light skinned and not a brother), apes the black girls' vulgar moves, dress and behavior and leads the non-white team to victory over her old white team, who all end up rooting against themselves except for the evil new head cheerleader. By the end of the movie, she is dressed like and acting like a real sister.
It is SO hard to be a responsible parent these days. Even if you monitor everything they watch or listen to, you either have to ban them from all t.v., movies and popular music, or you have to try to talk to them about it. That's what I try to do, to present the "other side" that is never presented in any of our maninstream media. Still, this stuff is nonstop, vicious anti-white male propaganda being doled out 24 hours a day by the mills of Hollywood and on kid and teen channels like MTV, the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. You simply can't get your kids away from it, and banning it all would risk ostracizing them from their peers, which is a fate worse than death for young people. I'm doing the best I can, but I'd be interested in hearing from other parents on this forum who are dealing with this same issue.
It is SO hard to be a responsible parent these days. Even if you monitor everything they watch or listen to, you either have to ban them from all t.v., movies and popular music, or you have to try to talk to them about it. That's what I try to do, to present the "other side" that is never presented in any of our maninstream media. Still, this stuff is nonstop, vicious anti-white male propaganda being doled out 24 hours a day by the mills of Hollywood and on kid and teen channels like MTV, the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. You simply can't get your kids away from it, and banning it all would risk ostracizing them from their peers, which is a fate worse than death for young people. I'm doing the best I can, but I'd be interested in hearing from other parents on this forum who are dealing with this same issue.
