it just pains me to read the coverage of the fatal beating of seventeen year old, robert "bobby" tillman, this past weekend in douglasville, georgia by four of his peers. my heart truly goes out to his mother, who described her son as her "best friend".
bobby was attending a house party that apparently had gotten out of hand at the home of a local teenage girl. many people stated that the party was thrown by responsible parents + was meant for only about ten people, but it quickly grew out of control. some accounts say that at one time, there were over eighty people there. this grew progressively worse when two females got into a altercation + one of the females hit another partygoer - a male. he stated he wouldn't hit a girl {how chivalrous!!!}, but he would hit the next male that walked by {errrrr!?!?!}. unfortunately, bobby happened to walk by + the unthinkable happened....
four male teenagers proceeded to beat bobby to his death. click here for more details on the story
well, here's my take on the story...i think it's senseless. truly senseless. bobby did not deserve what happened to him. he did not provoke those young men in any way. i truly, truly believe our youth are lost. they're just lost. they listen to the filth that's in our music + on our televisions these days + are truly unable to distinguish between what is acceptable in real life + what's not. they're not able to have a mind of their own + the gumption to not "live up" to what's "cool" in today's society. they see famous people go to jail for drugs/weapons charges + how they are "glorified" with "free xxx" shirts....they see how people are sooo excited when these individuals are released so that they can continue to make music that clouds the minds of our youth.
don't get me wrong, i definitely don't think that music + television are the only issues, but they play a huge part. i also blame parents to a certain extent - i don't have children myself, yet, so i have no idea what it's like to be a parent these days, but there is some level of accountability that should be taken.
i wrote about a christian rapper, lecrae, a few days ago....he has a song on a previous album - entitled "rebel" that i think is truly fitting for this situation. it speaks about being a "rebel" in the society that we live in. there's a part in the song that says,
"I know that in our day rebel means sinner, but everyone is sinning so it is no longer rebellious to sin. Jesus was a rebel who was counter cultural.....
...If you really want to be a rebel read your bible, because no one is doing that.... that's rebellion - that's the only rebellion left."
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