To all political candidates: In your quest for political office, I pray that you will represent the families in your bid to restore not only our economy but the social strength of our families as well, by promoting decency and respect.<\/p>\n
Monday\u2019s letter to the editor by Catherine Anderson definitely needed to be written. She is not alone in her outrage at Saturday\u2019s wet T- shirt show.<\/p>\n
This is a wake-up call to everyone in the community that, if we truly value our children and the youth of today, if we truly want them to turn out well, then the adults need to model and promote the qualities we expect them to have. As an educator, I find it appalling that the school system is expected to help groom our students to become educated, decent, hirable, well-presented young individuals, yet outside the school boundaries, companies that direct their marketing toward our youth promote indecent, offensive behavior.<\/p>\n
Car shows enthusiasts are often young, impressionable teenagers and truly this kind of \u201cpromotion\u201d is a disgrace to our family-loving community. Did anyone involved in promoting the \u201ccar show\u201d\u2014the sponsors, promoters, or participants stop to think, \u201cCould our public audience include children?\u201d The parental discretion \u201cclause\u201d is a joke! My teenage students laugh when I tell them they aren\u2019t supposed to watch \u201cR\u201d rated movies. The \u201cR\u201d rating makes seeing the movie all the more exciting. The parental discretion clause probably attracted the teens to watch the show. So then, we, as adults, who we all hope are wiser, should then guide our youth and not predispose them to negative entertainment.<\/p>\n
A few of my students came up to me and said, \u201cYeah, miss, I saw the contest, it was gross. I heard those girls were from our local strip clubs. It was so perverted, I can\u2019t believe they allowed that show in public!\u201d But despite their disgust, the students who told me about this still watched the whole show in its entirety.<\/p>\n
Saipan has a reputation on Guam and Japan as a destination filled with prostitutes. One factor for this tarnished reputation is Saipan\u2019s prolific prostitution seen publicly, nightly, and without fail, at all the tourist districts. Saturday night\u2019s public show validates this reputation.<\/p>\n
Everything falls and rises on leadership, and I hope and pray to God that, as you aspire to lead our great Commonwealth, you will know that voters like myself are looking for leaders with integrity, character, and the guts to stand up and do what is right for our CNMI community.<\/p>\n
Cherlyn Cabrera
\nMarianas High School<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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