MJ, Al Sharpton, and James Brown

I have a sense that I will feel somehow dirty or at least unclean the next time I hear Eminem and don't break the radio or at least shut it off.

Rev. Al really speaks to EVERYONE when he decries the violence in music toward the African American culture. And violence is what it is: emotional and verbal violence, inspiring physical acts. Al said James Brown's last complaint to him was there is no music today that you can sit down on the porch with and listen to it with your Grandma.

"No music" might be too general. There's a good deal of it out there. But there is a sub-culture that has embraced the violent aspect, and I don't see it changing course any time soon.