Life comes at us at 100 miles an hour and sometimes we get a little frustrated with some of the people we love and care for. Arguments between family members occur and sometimes horrible words are exchanged between parent and child, siblings or other relations. Hopefully these things happen in private and remain in private, but what do you do when one of your family members puts this private conversation out into the public eye? What do you do when your own child puts out an edited clip with the intention of decimating your career, position, reputation and everything you have worked for?
This is the situation Kirk Franklin currently find himself in.
Whilst I am not in a position to discuss the intimate matters of this exchange as:
I am in a position to discuss the sickening desire we have as humans to watch another persons strife play out in public and the pleasure we seem to take from cancel culture. We are fast to judge and throw stones and ignore the words of Jesus in John 8:7.
"However, when they persisted in questioning Him, He straightened up and said, “He who is without [any] sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”
On this episode we discuss this and I offer you, The Daley Perspective!
Show Notes:
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Welcome to the show that gives it to you with no fluff, real Christianity and all that good stuff. Welcome to the Daley perspective, and I'm your host, Mr. Daley So first and foremost, let me give a shout out to everyone that's listening on Spotify. Um, audible, Google podcast. Good Google podcasts, Google [00:01:00] podcasts, Apple podcast.
Breaker, pocketcast, Tune In, wherever you are listening from. I appreciate you! This week on the Daley Perspective, we are talking about that video that has been going around of, uh, someone that I have admired for a very long time. Someone I met. When I was, um, starting out in the Christian music scene, Mr. Kirk
Franklin. But we're not talking about, at the way that everyone else is talking about it, not on, it led me to think about something else that led me to think about how we as a society. are under the spotlight. Everything that we do is be in watched [00:02:00] whether you are a celebrity or you are just regular Joe blogs, you are being watched.
Some people want to call it, cancel culture. Some people want to call it. Big Brother whatever you want to call it. The fact of the matter is as a people today, we are being watched, but let's start with this video. So what is this video about? Basically the video was put out by Kirk Franklins, eldest son. I believe he's 33 years old.
Grown-ass man. You know, but dude put this video out, trying to basically show his father in a bad light now. I am not going to [00:03:00] judge. Because I do not know Kirk Franklin son, and I am not going to judge Kirk Franklin because I do not know Kirk Franklin like that. So it is not my place to judge. If I was to judge as well, I would be doing the thing that I am.
Talking about in this episode, I would be judging people whose lives are on view.
The thing is Kirk Franklin, some put this video out and what he basically done was recorded a conversation between himself. And he's fine now, obviously that was. Something going on. It was a heated conversation. Tempers were flaring, but, [00:04:00] and this was the first thing that myself and my wife picked up on.
When we saw this video, he only put out the section where Kirk Franklin was cussing him out. That set alarm bells ringing for me straight away like, Oh, so you don't want to show us what led up to that. You don't want to show what made him flip out? What made him stop cussing? And the fact that you hear Kirk Franklins saying don't disrespect me means that clearly he son must've said something to him that set him off.
Now for people that are familiar with the story. And I guess the history I'm not, I don't get into people's business like that. My understanding is there is a history here of the son being very entitled, believing that [00:05:00] he deserves more than his dad is doing for him. Even though he's that has done a lot for him.
Um, and he feels that he's siblings he's that other children from his marriage get preferential treatment when it comes to, I guess, the attention of their father, um, and what he believes his father bestows upon these children. Now, first thing, dude, you are 33 years old. Now let me, let me put this out, then make sure this is understood.
I am not saying that a father can not help his children out. I would be a hypocrite if I said [00:06:00] that because my pops has helped me out. Many a times in my adult life, when I have hit upon difficult situations that I could not resolve on my own, but my pops ain't here paying my mortgage and my bills on a daily basis or weekly, monthly basis, whatever it's.
I work. I pay my bills. I look after my children, I look off to my wife. I feed my family. I take care of what I can take care of. Now, like I said, there have been instances where I've run into situations and some people want to set up down front. Like they ain't never, they ain't never hit on hard times or anything like that.
Got a front with you. I keep it funky. I keep it 100. Every so often in life, you will run into a [00:07:00] situation that may be bigger than you can handle at the time. There is no shame in asking for help and I've, I've had to humble myself and ask for help on a number of occasions. Cool. But I do not expect daily, weekly, monthly handouts from my father to help me see myself through life.
No, no, no, no, no. Now the understanding I have is that this is this young man's approach. He's expecting these regular handouts from his father to see him for life. He's expecting his father to keep maintaining him. And I guess there was a level of resentment because he feels he's that. Isn't doing that despite his dad's success.
But [00:08:00] my argument here, and I guess probably Franklin's argument is that you are a grown man. You have to make your own way in life. At some point, go out there into the world and make your way I have afforded you an education and other things, and I've helped you. And I've helped you to get established.
And I'm sure if he was striving to do something, he would get the support that he needs. If he's pups can offer that support, it just seems like dude wants to ride this wave and not do anything with his life and just keep getting locked off. But that's how it comes across. Now. Like I said, I am not in people's business, but that is the story that I am getting.
So with that being said, they seem to have some level of conversation which goes sideways.
[00:09:00] This guy is recording the whole conversation, but chooses to release this very short section of the conversation to the public, where his dad is cussing him out. Also, you hear him cussing out his dad. Now personally, for me, I would love to say that I would never cuss out my children like that. And. You know, my kids have got me mad.
They've got me mad, but cussed them out. Nope. But maybe because I don't really cuss ou...