As if it weren't bad enough that Twista is promoted & promulgated by the likes of Warner Music Group [WMG - Warner Bros, Atlantic Records], Viacom [MTV / VH1 / BET], the New York Times [futher below], and the Chicago Tribune [by Emily Rosenbaum, member of the Committee of Concerned Journalists?], a veritable chorus over at the Chicago Sun-Times, even Regis & Kelly [Viacom - CBS], among Others -- but as things stand, you, as Mayor, Mr. Daley, by teaming up with Twista are going to affect the innocent young at the Children's Choir Academy more profoundly still.
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NOTE: Ms. Sandra Cardenas of the Mayor's Office has now indicated only last Thursday, the 20th, on a follow up call that I made to her, and contrary to Ms. Emily Rosenbaum's Chicago Tribune article, that, although the Mayor will participate in Principal for a Day, it will not be with Twista at the Children's Choir Academy. Again, where, Ms. Cardenas could not say.
Mayor Daley, as a man who professes a belief in God & the Law of Men, would it be that you would have this vile, perverted freak -- nay, SELF-PROCLAIMED MONSTER -- would it be that you, sir, would have a hand in the unleashing of this SELF-PROCLAIMED BEAST Twista onto the impressionable young of the Choir Academy? ... Dragging them down into the drugged, violent cesspool of which Twista so proudly & perhaps tragically boasts to dwell?
Below is a fairly exaustive look at Twista and the trainwreck of a tragedy that awaits the unsuspecting young at Children's Choir, not to mention all of the young everywhere who have the kind of poison that Twista spews -- and, most unfortunately, he almost seems more the rule than an exception -- poison that for all intents & purposes is forced on the young 24/7 from all manner of media, and more sadly, in many cases, in their innocence, the young absorb this poison almost gleefully -- surely to the detriment of all, themselves more than anyone.
However, I have full confidence that should this letter reach you, Mayor Daley, or a responsible member of your staff, that Twista, tortured soul that he seems to be, as a representative of so-called artists, and any of his so-called art, will henceforth be firmly denied access to any school within the city limits of Chicago -- or anywhere else, for that matter -- being that the protection of the innocence of the young demands nothing more & nothing less.
That said, the situation, of course, would differ if Twista was to suddenly & drastically change his tune. Not likely to happen, so why at one of the only -- if not the only -- schools in town focusing specifically on teaching REAL MUSIC ... Why in the world have this Twista precisely there?
You know, I'm only pushing 40, but I can't help but feel dated when I think of the youth of today and the additional hurdles that our society places in front of them in the quest for a healthy life, things that weren't here even 20 years ago. It's simply frightening, what is out there, wouldn't you agree?
Sincerely,
David L. Wideman
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civicfuror@yahoo.com
P.S. If nothing else, scroll all the way to the bottom of this e-mail and read the lyrics there from Twista's 2004 CD, Kamikaze. Just incredible that a company like Warner Music Group [WMG] pushes this stuff! ... Of course, they're hardly alone. God help us all.
... Question: Do you suppose the journalists of the Chicago Tribune & the Chicago Sun-Times, among others, Twista apologists all -- Do you suppose they should own up to their unprofessional & irresponsible promotions of Twista? I do.
How about the Choir Academy? Should having already sanctioned the collaboration of their students in a public performance last spring with Twista -- not to mention the proposed upcoming encore -- should this be openly admitted as a mistake and discussed as such with the students? I think so.
And, lastly, on what was [?] a potentially positive note: It just so happens that the star of the Lyric Opera's performance of Carmen, Denyce Graves, was [?] in town for her last performance of the fall season, Friday, October the 21st.
Of course, during the busy Opera season, it's highly unlikely that this would be possible, but, what a blessing it would be if Ms. Graves was to still be in town on the 27th and could fill in for Twista as the Children's Choir Academy's Principal for a Day partner of Mayor Daley.
Talk about right from wrong!