It is not too soon to point out the painfully obvious “falls from grace” in our hero-worshipping-gone-amok.

Managing editor Julie Cooper’s Wednesday column deftly points out:

1. A singer-dancer par excellence does not automatically provide a safe overnight haven for young boys in exchange for a suitcase full of cash;

2. An athlete sporting All-Pro credentials does not automatically earn the right to deprive four young kids of their fath…ah, well; ain’t this familiar turf?

Is this, indeed, some of America’s way of celebrating “contribution(s)” to an ordered society, with children watching and listening, fooled?

No. It cannot be.

Tim McGivaren

Natchez resident