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The Mood is about to Change

China | 10.03.2001 11:17

World Wrestling Federation is de-sensitizing our children to gratuitous, sexist violence.

I only write an article when my senses are outraged, as in the case of Lionel Tate, a fourteen year old boy sentenced to life in an adult prison, for playing! I have a son of mixed-race, aged eleven, who like many children of this age group, is obsessed with WWF and the aggressive hype surrounding it, ‘The Rock’ being his hero. Although I don’t approve, he emmulates wrestling moves on his six year old sister, I’ve warned them of the danger, but it’s just a game to them. Youngsters can’t differentiate between choreography and reality. This type of accidental death between siblings has happened before, it will happen again. That’s why WWF is ultimately responsible for the death of a little girl and the inhumane incarceration, by Judge Joel Lazarus, of a boy, who had he been white would have received clemency, but being black, got ‘No Mercy.’ If the wrestling “superstars” who promote and teach our children this profound violence, do not rally to support Lionel and demand that his sentence be quashed, then they are as sick as the senseless, seedy characters they portray!

China