The Game at Muir High School

The appearance of the rapper "The Game" at Muir High School didn't sit too well with our columnist/crime blogger/editor Frank Girardot.

In his column Girardot assails the school for bringing in a bad role model:

"Here's a plan to keep at-risk kids off drugs, away from gangs and out of trouble.

Invite a tattooed, baggy pants "gangsta" rapper to meet a classroom full of impressionable high schoolers."

Girardot and reporter Robert Hong had a brief and not so lively debate about whether it was a good idea for kids to get advice from rap stars (I don't think Robert's heart was in it, whereas Frank was pretty steamed.)

It does raise an interesting question of whether your creative work (in this case The Game's violent lyrics) should exclude you from preaching an entirely different message in your free time (don't be violent).

Maybe if he just stuck to rapping about blunts and 40s instead of drive-bys (or spend more time in his rhymes talking about how violence just makes you "lose things you care about" as he did in his speech at Muir)