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| Earlier this week, a great American
hero died. No, I'm not talking about Superman, he's still alive (though he
is basically a head in a wheelchair). I am speaking, of course, of Fred Rogers.
Known better to children everywhere as Mr. Rogers, he spent his entire life
trying to teach children what he knew. From love to death, friends to parents,
Mr. Rogers taught many children many things. When their parents had to go away
for work or whatever, they could leave the baby sitter and just let their kids
watch Mr. Rogers, knowing that they would be safe in his care. Now, a lot of
people, for whatever reason, thought that Fred was a person who molested children
and was an ass off screen. I'm here to dispell those rumors, along with publically
humiliating myself infront of the entire two people who ever read this site.
Mr. Rogers was a good man who was never even accused of child molestation,
at least not by a court or a formal accusation. Sure, people would randomly
spout off nonsense such as "I bet he's a child molester" or "He
looks like a pedophile" or "I'd like to sodomize him" (that
last one was sent in by a reader, thanks AlabamaJoseph), but that doesn't mean
that any of those phrases applied to him. Many people mock Fred Rogers, but I don't see any of those people stepping up to do something as pure-hearted as he did. Do you realize the balls that it takes to get on public television and act like that? To take yourself to the level of your child viewers and take them to a place where they can learn things and have a person who they feel understands them in the crazy adult world that they live in? That takes huge guts. He had to know that a lot of people would bash on him, peg him as a homosexual, assume he was a pedophile, etc. Yet he loved kids so much that he still did what he felt he needed to do, putting his own interests aside for the time being. I believe that to be one of the most noble things that a person can do. Children are the future of the world and Fred Rogers did everything he could to teach them and make them more comfortable in that world. Fred Rogers, I salute you. May you rest in peace. Email me: tyler@childprogeny.com Sign my guestbook. Back to updates. |