All over social media, teens are coming up with all kinds of idiotic challenges. Fire challenge, hyperventilation challenge, etc. The fire challenge is where someone oils themselves up and lights themselves on fire. Just yesterday, someone died from that challenge. While I'm saddened by his death, common sense should've told him that you will get burned by playing with fire. Some people should've learned when they were younger not to play with fire. Then you have the hyperventilation challenge, where you hold your breath for as long as possible and someone presses on your chest until you pass out. The first thing that comes to mind is boredom. When you have too much time on your hands, you're gonna pass the time anyway you can. The problem is when your choice of hobbies endangers yourself and others. Since there's all these crazy challenges floating around, I have a few challenges of my own.
This is a good challenge for Chicago: How long can the city go without one shooting or murder? Even though it's not possible, that would be a good challenge. Here's a better challenge: Black parents need to stop publicizing whipping their children like government mules on WorldStar. If you go on WorldStar right now and look for Bad Kids of the day, week, or month, you'll find lots of audio footage of kids cursing, parents beating them like they stole something, etc. That's never been cute, so why do it? What about this challenge: Stop posting footage of kids using profanity. I'm not a prude, but a little 3-4 year old kid cussing like a grown-up is embarrassing. The parents who taught them how to talk filthy should have charges pressed on them. When I watch footage of a foul-mouthed child, I think to myself: It won't be long until (s)he is cussing the parent(s) out, if not already. What the world calls acceptable, God calls abominable. In conclusion, the participants of these challenges need to get some business.
