Truth Is The Oxygen That American Culture Needs Immediately

When the human brain is deprived of oxygen, severe health implications can ensue. Brain cells are acutely sensitive to a lack of oxygen. Serious damage can occur in just five minutes. Some of the damage can be fatal. The late comedian Joan Rivers died because of a lack of oxygen during a throat procedure. Her death was ruled a "therapeutic complication." Oxygen keeps our physical bodies alive.

What keeps our spirit alive? Truth. The truth is the oxygen our souls depend on. Not convenient truths, our personal truths (whatever the heck that is), or situational truths. No adjectives should come before the word truth.

A lack of truth is causing the collapse of our society and laying the groundwork for paganistic principles to take root. Unfortunately, unbridled truth serum is missing in all aspects of American culture.

Hip-Hop music continues to be on the frontlines of the war against truth. 

I do not want to come off as a hypocrite here. I grew up on Hip-Hop music. My mother would play The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill on repeat in our Rogers Park apartment in Chicago. One of the first CDs she bought me was the edited version of Ludacris's Southern Hospitality. 50 Cent and Eminem have both had profound impacts on my life. Fifty's 2005 album The Massacre and Em's 2002 album The Eminem Show are two of the best Hip-Hop albums ever created. However, I grew up with a firm understanding that music is solely for the purposes of entertainment. I was never going to "hit your calf, hit your ass, hit ya back, then your head" or "slap you off that bar stool." What Lauryn Noelle Hill, Chris Bridges, Curtis Jackson, or Marshall Mathers spit on wax is not the truth. Much of what they discussed in their music was satanic.

Hip-Hop has been a devilish medium for decades now. The news coming out of Travis Scott's AstroWorld concert over the weekend was hellish. NRG Park had demonic images shown on LED screens, pyrotechnic flames, and the famous statue of Travis Scott's head depicted as a skull. As of this writing, at least 8 are dead, and another 300 were injured because of stampedes at the concert. That is believable with crowds that massive, but what about this man having a seizure on the ground?

Then there are reports that a security guard was poked in the neck with a syringe at the event. Stampedes were not the only thing that happened that night. Something far more ominous took place than recreational drugs. I know I wasn't there, but my eyes do not deceive me.

My ears also do not deceive me. Hip-Hop's demonism has entirely run amok within its fanbase. Yet, many of us, especially those in the black community, do not want to admit this truth. Prisons are full of men who could not decipher the difference between entertainment and real life. Gang violence, irresponsible sexual practices, and devoid of morals are celebrated because rappers look like they have money. Or because their pigment matches ours. The themes depicted within Hip-Hop culture are not those we would want our kids acting out. How many black parents would want their children to end up like Lil' Nas X, a man claiming he is pregnant? Or Lil' Wayne, who is an apparent drug addict? Or the late Juice WRLD, who was a drug addict? Sure, they made millions, but at what cost?

COVID has been an issue sorely lacking truth and discernible dialogue. Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has found himself in the crosshairs of the Covidian Police Department, also known as the mainstream sports media. During a podcast interview last week, Rodgers articulately broke down his journey involving the vaccine. He stated that he fully believes in "bodily autonomy." He says he underwent a months-long immunization process after consulting several doctors and health officials because he did not feel comfortable with the three vaccine options on the market. The NFL was allegedly kept in the loop the entire time.

Despite the level-headedness of his explanation, the CPD attacked him viciously. ESPN's golden child Stephen A. Smith called Rodgers a "national disgrace." FOX Sports personality and Stephen A. Smith wannabe Nick Wright called Rodgers' line of thinking "incredibly arrogant." The sports media reaction to Rodgers is drastically more animated and vile when compared to the discussion regarding free-agent wide receiver Henry Ruggs III. The former Las Vegas Raiders wideout allegedly killed a woman last week after crashing his car driving 156 mph with a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit. Discussions regarding Ruggs are more somber and sympathetic. Ask yourself which situation is more tragic? A man refusing to take the vaccine or a man killing someone because they were joyriding drunk? Does sympathy towards Ruggs and anger towards Rodgers make sense? The sports media is not being honest.

The truth is a green smoothie made of spinach, kale, and ginger root. It requires a bit of work, costs a little more money, and may not taste good, but it is better for you. Lies can be analogized to a bag of gummy worms made of sugar. It is sweet, cheap, easy to reproduce, but is bad for your health.

Society today reaches for the sweet lies rather than the bitter truth. We want to believe that Hip-Hop is a platform for the voiceless. Or that Aaron Rodgers is a kooky conspiracy theorist. Everything presented to us on television is not on the up-and-up. The discussions around COVID, Aaron Rodgers, Henry Ruggs, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, climate change, infrastructure, and everything else are corporate-approved messages. Disney-owned ESPN and ABC, FOX Sports, CBS Sports, CNN, or MSNBC will not allow for honest two-sided conversations about the coronavirus on their airwaves. Detering people from getting an experimental vaccine works against the interests of Big Pharma, the Biden Administration, and corporate America. Many of these corporations are doing business with China, where the virus originated. Pointing the proverbial finger at China would not align with their business interests.

Go to YouTube and find Jadakiss's 2004 song "Why":


Why they gotta open your package and read your mail?

Why they stop letting niggas get degrees in jail?

Why niggas can't get no jobs?

Why they come up with the witness protection?

Why they let the Terminator win the election?

Come on, pay attention!

Why are healthy non-vaccinated people like Aaron Rodgers and Kyrie Irving demonized, but unhealthy vaccinated people are celebrated?

Why did they change the definition of the word vaccine?

Why are they considering changing the definition of "fully vaccinated?"

The truth will never be given to us. We must actively seek it. If we don't, we die.

Vincent Williams

Founder and Chief Editor of Critic at Extra Large, an American, former radio personality, former Music Director, Hip-Hop enthusiast and lover of all things mint.

https://twitter.com/VinWilliams28
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