{"id":4009,"date":"2018-10-26T17:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T21:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2018-10-26T17:00:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T21:00:52","slug":"you-cant-cancel-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=4009","title":{"rendered":"You Can’t Cancel Nature!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Shamira James<\/em><\/p>\n

My favorite part of logging onto Twitter recently has been seeing videos of Brother Nature. His happy voice and warm hearted energy are truly a beacon of light on any platform of social media. If you don\u2019t know who he is, you\u2019re missing out, no he\u2019s not a singer or one of those prepubescent boys who spends their time grinding on floors, Kelvin Pe\u00f1a\u2019s internet fame came from feeding animals. Dubbed the \u201cDeer Whisperer\u201d people fell in love with him after Snapchat videos went viral of him talking to deer and other furry creatures alike. <\/span><\/p>\n

This past Sunday, old tweets from the 20 year old internet sensation resurfaced and it sent the internet into yet another [insert celebrity who is currently in a scandal in which they are wrong is cancelled] fits. The tweets were racially insensitive and showed a side of Pe\u00f1a that came out of nowhere. The guy that started a non-profit that not only helps underprivileged youths but also seeks to inspire and spreads positivity is all of sudden a racist and we should drop him like a hot ceramic plate fresh out of the dishwasher just because people on Twitter feel a certain way? <\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what I think a lot of people who perpetuate \u201ccancel culture\u201d on social media need,a reality check, so here it is. Pe\u00f1a tweeted those things when he was 12 years old. I would bet my bottom dollar that if you look at anyone\u2019s social media when they were younger you\u2019ll find tasteless things and I would bet even more that the person they were all those years ago is not who they are and they would feel immense remorse for what they said. I\u2019m not chalking this up to a \u201ckids say the darndest things\u201d situation, but lets keep it a whole 100 here people – the kid was 12 when he says those things and no one realizes the impact of their words then.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another hard pill to swallow for those who think they have the last say on someone\u2019s career – UNTIL WE CANCEL PEOPLE\/BRANDS\/THINGS WHO ACTUALLY DESERVE TO BE CANCELLED THEN IT\u2019S NEVER GOING TO WORK. Had people actually felt strongly about people doing wrong and having to suffer consequences for their actions people like Kanye West, Tekashi 6ix9ine and even Chris Brown wouldn\u2019t have a quarter of the success they have now. <\/span><\/p>\n

Brother Nature immediately set his Twitter account to private when he was outed and immediately delivered an apology for his tweets. Perhaps being a fan holds some of my bias but I\u2019ve seen a lot of internet apologies and his felt so sincere. And apology be damned, if you watch any of his videos you can tell he\u2019s genuinely a good person that only wants good for everyone. I can\u2019t – and honestly refuse to – cancel such a positive person. He embodies being positive in a world where it is more than easy to be consumed by negativity and that\u2019s what all kid, adults and elders need to see. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Shamira James My favorite part of logging onto Twitter recently has been seeing videos of Brother Nature. His happy voice and warm hearted energy are truly a beacon of light on any platform of social media. If you don\u2019t know who he is, you\u2019re missing out, no he\u2019s not a singer or one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}