Wheatley concerned about students using obscene language in public
- Thursday, June 7th, 2012 at 1:06 PM
Doug Wheatley
Talk Show host Douglas Wheatley is concerned about students, particularly in school uniform, cursing obscene language in public.
Wheatley’s concerns were expressed in the radio programme ‘Speak Out BVI’ heard on ZBVI Radio last Tuesday evening.
“You do not have to curse to show your manhood,” he said.
He spoke about a situation he recently experienced while he was at the High Court in Road Town. He said he was seated on a bench placed on the High Court Yard to commemorate the murder of ‘Young Penn’ and students of the Elmore Stoutt High School were just exiting the compound. He said there was a young man from the school standing on the side walk with some friends and he was using some “swear language, quite a lot of it”.
The talk show host said he was very disappointed to see a young student still in his school uniform just exiting the campus, using such a language.
“Sometimes we think that being able to use language like that, especially in public, is something to be done, but I was thinking about the song by Kenny Rogers, ‘You don’t have to fight to be a man’. I said you don’t have to curse in order to be a man. You can be a man without using language like that,” Wheatley said.
He said there is need to continue talking to the young people in the territory and hope one day they will shun away and shy away from doing this.
He spoke about a retired police officer who also sees this as a problem, claiming there are some people who use swear words as a regular part of their vocabulary, and every third word is a swear word.
Wheatley said habits are hard to be broken “and once you get into the habit like that those words would just flow off the tip of your tongues very easily without any thought from you”.
“I am saying to the young people that is not the best way to conduct yourself. Do a little bit of introspective analysis. When you get home and you retire for the night and you put your pajamas on and you settle down and you get on your knees and you say your prayers, and then you get in your beds and before you go to sleep, you reflect a little bit on life. I like you to reflect on that sort of thing, that it is time to give up those swear words and to be using them as part of your normal vocabulary. And I think if we can get a change like that across the aboard, that will be good for the young people of the territory,” Wheatley said.
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I have lectured on this so many times it’s exhausting but all the word u call curse words have a meaning…who’s fault is it that English words have many meanings?
The kids curse 1. b/c they hear adults curse & 2. b/c sometimes there just aren’t words to express their tru feelings
To say that curse words r the language of demons is just plain ignorant b/c it has nothing to do with your religious views & everything to do with slavery and being forced to adopt an inferior language.
Also to the Religious pundits…The GOd of your choosing was not speaking in english, the bible as most of u r christian was not written in english so for a non european child to not be able to express themselves totally in english is nothing to be ashamed of…and if u think it is then u have been brainwashed as to what we are experiencing.
Focus should be put on the youth’s value system, more so than their choice words of expression.
VILander,
There we go again with this slavery non-sense.
When were the high school kids in slavery? To whom were they enslaved?
If your god advocates cursing and obscene language then it speaks volumes about your god.
I stand firmly on my previous statement. What or whose value system should we use? What are the tenants of the proposed value system?
Inmates started wearing their prison uniform pants which were inherently too large in that fashion as a sign of their availability for coitus. It’s amazing how easily folks are led astray. The damning thing is even after they are told how this fad came about they insist on perpetrating this alliance with a homosexual agenda.
Cursing demonstrates ignorance and lack of sound vocabulary. That’s the language of demons.
The church done messed up your cranium
Keep preaching it brother, one day it will bear fruit. Also look at the pants falling off their bottom. 90% of these high school guys wear their pants off their bottom. It is interesting to see them in the mornings adjusting the pant to near falling off just before going through the school gate.
Its quite natural what we say is only an index to our minds but charity begins at home and many parents need parenting themselves.
But kids seriously…you kiss your mothers with that mouth?
Swearing is a sign of illiteracy. Try this young people – instead of using F as noun, verb, adjective select a good non curse alternative. Can’t think of one? Thats the point and will affect your life and career.
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