Mona Scott-Young

  In all honesty, I absolutely love the fact that there is a beautiful Black woman who is making a name for herself in the entertainment world. No, she’s not an entertainer but she is the brains behind such television shows like Love & Hip Hop that airs on channel VH1. Without her, the show wouldn’t even exist. But let me be real: Although she is a very successful business woman with a vast amount of power in the world of television, it sucks that she is using that power to televise tomfoolery instead of using it to create a show that is still entertaining, minus the slaps and weave-pulling. When is enough gonna be enough? Maybe she believes that because the individuals on her show are grown, she can’t control the action of others for that reason. This is true. However, if you are the one that is ALLOWING for the foolishness to be exposed on national TV, you are partly responsible for it. The violence that is being exposed on this show has been raising some eyebrows and putting Mona Scott-Young in the public eye as a bad influence to the Black community. Of course, most people stay tuned into a show that’s either full of drama or extremely uplifting. And if we was to really be honest with ourselves, we all love to watch some drama unfold on TV. But when it gets to a point where it’s starting to turn into nothing but violent encounters, something has to change. Yes, I do believe that Scott-Young needs to take some of the responsibility for being irresponsible when it comes to what she allows the viewers to see on the shows that she creates. But on the flip side, it would be highly unfair for us to consider her a “bad influence” if we’re not willing to take responsibility for our own actions. For example, if you have been one of those jackasses that has taken your cell phone and recorded a fight between a couple of young men and women and then decided to upload that shit onto the internet for the whole world to see, then you are just as much of a bad influence as anyone else. We all need to do better. And honestly, I have no problem including myself in that equation. I don’t fight but I will admit that there have been a few times when I have viewed a fight video that was made public and I forwarded it to someone else. I realized that my action contributed to the destructive behavior of the Black community that we have yet to eliminate. We can’t say that the state of the youth is completely messed up when we as adults are the ones that are not giving the youth better examples on how to live this thing called life. Stop saying that the youth is in trouble when it’s actually the ADULTS that are in trouble because WE are the reason that the youth is in trouble in the first place. Whether you believe it or not, the youth will follow the actions of the adults and their actions will eventually become a replica of what they’ve learned from us. So if we’re not willing to do better in how we respond to conflict, don’t expect the youth to be willing to do better. We need to care more.  I’m not saying that we need to be perfect in order to reach the youth. We as adults will NEVER be perfect. Unfortunately, there’s gonna be times in our lives when we don’t have no other choice but to kick a lil’ ass. But if you actually HAVE A CHOICE, make the right one. Too many of our beautiful Black children are losing their lives everyday to nonsense and it’s mainly because we keep letting the shit slide, our stupid behavior keeps getting exploited,  and we ignore what’s really going on. You can pray for the youth all you want to but we must put forth some serious ACTION on top of it to change some things around. Stop being a cheerleader when it comes to people kicking each other’s asses and start a trend where the youth will see how cool it is to act like you have some sense. If we start making better choices on how we deal with people AND THAT BECOMES A TREND, maybe Scott-Young will be willing to create a show that doesn’t have us as Black females looking like porch monkeys. I’m just sayin’.  Sonica