Sunday, July 5, 2009
On this Sunday morning the sports page produced a relevant message. The last few weeks has documented a number of untimely deaths, the latest is that of football celebrity Steve McNair. This is a message for the under fifty “now” generations only because it is to late for the rest of us. Celebrity status, real or imagined is not a license for excess. The Bible declares that what goes around comes around and this life truth is again playing out in the lives of our celebrities.
In the Daily Press, 05 July 09, a perverted understanding of celebrity is vocalized by a former teammate of McNair. Quoting the article and Samari Rolle, “It is a sad, sad day. The world has lost a great man today.” Really, we have supposedly lost a great man? Mr. Rolle is guilty of as much moral absurdity as that of Mr. McNair. The life decisions of this great sports celebrity are far from any moral definition of manhood!
There is no just excuse for murder but a life of excess creates a negative hazardous atmosphere. The point is not to exploit the excesses of Mr. McNair but to ask each one of us to examine where we as a culture are headed. Is morality only an outdated crutch of the fuddy duddies that has no relevance to the daily lives of the now crowd? Does the life of Michael Jackson leave a legacy that even approaches that of Martin Luther King? Is the legacy of a cheating Manny equal to that of Lou Gehrig, who considered himself the luckiest man in the world despite his fatal disease? Kid’s, isn’t there a difference?
Please, let each of our generations choose aright today.
G.Goslaw
Victorville, Ca
