Gma Pruitt's perspective on Halloween

   I am here to talk to you about Halloween, I don’t mean what some nutter is saying about it or some wannabe god is saying about it, I am here talking as a mother and a grandmother and a great grandmother, and I say parents stop ruining everything for kids.  I don’t know why most adults are anti kid but they are, I have seen parents dressing their little girls up like the happy hooker, and little boys like little thugs, I’ve seen teenagers in clothes that used to be banned outside of their bedrooms, so why is it that now there is a movement to destroy Halloween.

    It used to be a time of hearing spooky stories and seeing scary movies and it was fun to be scared, because parents took the time to show and tell their kids that it was all fantasy, and fantasy wasn’t real.  And then they new wave took over, parents are too busy to tell kids what is real and what is fantasy but they will park them in front of a TV to see a show that no one should see that doesn’t know the difference and they  should be over 18 too. And then there is the cell phones, heavens forbid that parents explain what is right and what is bad to do with cell phones, after all, if they don’t tell them and pretend that their kids wouldn’t do anything like that, then they can still look themselves in the face in the mirror.

      And now it comes to Halloween, churches were becoming rather unpopular, the gospel spewers decided to declare that Halloween was evil, and if kids were enjoying themselves that they were worshiping the devil. Then they told the parents that GOD had told them to tell parents to protect their kids by denying them the fun of trick or treating and dressing up in goofy costumes or ones favorite super hero. After all they might find out that there was nothing wrong with the holiday even though there were bad people out there that did bad things.  But then parents would have to stop being their kid’s best friend and act like parents so of course that was out.

       So the age of killing fun began, and what easier beginning than Halloween, just because it would entail telling a few hundred lies. I mean let the wannabe gods spew the Halloween hate, then parents could still play at being their kids best friend and just blindly follow whatever the leader of their church said.  Just because they knew it was all a lie, didn’t mean that they couldn’t pretend it was the truth and then they could push the kids back to going to church so the ghosts and goblins and flying witches couldn’t get at them.

       So what’s next, telling kids that Santa Claus is hiding horns underneath his cap, and that there is no such thing as a flying reindeer?  The Easter Bunny can have horns disguised as bunny ears and colored eggs are the devil’s work, and let’s not forget Thanksgiving, most people have already convinced the kids that the Native Americans are all in the imagination and that they don’t really exist, so the truth is that only the pilgrims were there to celebrate the first Thanksgiving, or they can always make the Native Americans demons and tell their kids that why the white people had to try to commit genocide on them.  They can use the same trick with Slavery and become naysayers, and tell their kids that slavery didn’t really happen. That the plantation owners actually paid them for the work and the Civil War didn’t really happen.

       Yes, we have come a long way, so let’s just deprive kids of childhood and then people could keep a clean conscience and be able to stand up and yell to the world what good parents and good Christians they are. The only losers are the children, but what the heck, it’s not like they are important or anything like that now are they…………

Gma Pruitt
2013