Richard O. Jones

I'm not so naïve as to think this is all P. Diddy's doing, he's just a sneeze in a world of germs but he also has power over the careers of aspiring artists. As far back as Tupac rappers wore huge crucifixes on their shirtless ‘THUG' tattooed bodies as they rapped about gangster life and religion. In 2005, 50 Cent's movie "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" young ghetto gangsters wore crucifixes, carried guns, sold drugs, and terrorized the community.  I believe the message of P. Diddy and other celebrities mocking God is that you can be a gangster and godly too.

Many of high-profile entertainers with great influence are commonly going to drug rehab programs, jail for carrying weapons, hit & run, drunk driving, assault and battery with crucifixes around their necks. The Black rap artists and comics, either directly or indirectly, are encouraged to display outrageous behavior and cloak it with God. They are apathetic and/or ignorant to the long-term damage it does to the image of their own people as a race.  In their defense, artists are quick to blare, "Don't judge me, only God can judge me!" They seem to be saying, I'm a child of Gods' too and have a big glittering crucifix to prove it. (See Matthew 7: 21-23)

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