Christian Views On Public Figures
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Christian Views On Public Figures Should Christians Call Public Figures Degrading Names Given By The World?
Dear Moody Broadcasting, My name is Gilbert James and I listen to WRMB, West Palm Beach, FL.
My child doesn’t know any other Christian Station but the above mentioned. Two radios are always on in our home and they are never changed from WRMB. Our car radio stays on WRMB with fear that if we change it we may never find it again. I mentioned all of that to communicate that we love and respect your programming. We recommend your station to our friends when we get a chance.
I am going to be outright and tell you that I am a Negroid person, about the same age as Michael Jackson and I believe that we were born the same month. I have followed his accusation in depth. The term “Wacko Jacko” came from a senseless rating oriented secular news media that accompanied their label with comments and implications of guilt for Michael Jackson before he is tried.
I watched the different national news media pick it up and run with it like teammates involved in a relay race. I watched and heard the secular media use this term in unbelievably cruel settings, tones and implications. It was last week that Fox News with Rita interviewed Michael Jackson’s mother and she was in tears at the way that they senselessly are on a mission to not only destroy her son but the entire family. When she made reference to the term “Wacko Jacko” as one of the labels that they gave her son, the entity that it came from and what they meant by that, just using the term, she broke down in tears. Her following comments were that we are human beings and we hurrt just like any other family. My son deserve his day in court just like any other person, she commented.
I listened to Charles Morris’s commentary for today, February 8, 2005. I heard his reference to Michael Jackson as “Jacko.” He didn’t say that he was labeled same or that the world called him that, but he joined in and addressed him as “Jacko.” it wasn’t said in a manner like we as a Christian community, he as a national Christian broadcaster or MBN as a national Christian media, stand aside, apart and away from the term. It was used with personal ownership.
We are in the month of February which is Black History month. Even from an organization with integrity, away form being a Christian organization, out of respect for the Negroid people, at least for this month, this reference to Michael Jackson as “Jacko” is inappropriate. Moreover, this is coming from a Christian media that reaches a national audience.
As a Christian community, we should be reaching to the family in this time of crisis in an effort to console them and present Christ in the midst of a crushing time for them. Even the criminal on death row isn’t ridiculed by the Christian community publicly. Instead, we seek to present the Gospel and further, to console. If he wanted to communicate that Michael Jackson, as well as everyone who doesn’t know Christ as Savior, need to be concerned about their souls, this should be done in the Spirit of meekness with love. There is no way that he or anyone from his ministry can reach Michael Jackson after such a senseless public commentary. And if an apology isn’t made organizationally, I am afraid that your organization may never be able to reach Michael Jackson or his family either. And possibly some members of the Negroid community again.
This act has thrown a big block in my ability to see him and your organization as
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I am requesting that some clarification be made to this comment. As Christians, we have the obligation to be conscientious in our walk, and talk so we will not become a stumbling block in the way of souls coming to know Christ.
Sincerely,
Gilbert James
