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I'm in with them to the movie and said,
"Just drop me off and go then pick me
back up." You know, and certain age when
they get around past 10, they're kind of
pushing the parents and so on away. So,
they're seeing up what what what I'm I'm
trying to uh to say is that the our
children are exposed to so many things
that the family can't control
or perhaps should be controlling but
does not control. that's determining
their values and their perspective on
the world. So we have to ask ourself
what is that perspective? What are those
values that they're picking up and how
is affecting their behavior?
Now the TV industry and the other people
like to say I mean they'll deny that to
me I think the evidence is kind of
overwhelming that watching a whole lot
of violence on TV affects your values
and may gives you a proclivity toward
violence. no matter what uh you know
what uh they're saying now but they'll
the the the TV execs will say well TV
really can't affect people that much it
doesn't you know it's it's fantasy they
know it's make believe well
well
ask that of the advertising people the
advertising people know that they can
affect you through television and
through radio and they affect us all
rather kind of quite Well, right. I
mean, they put um uh they advertise and
they create in us needs and desires and
wishes and they play on our weaknesses
so that you will go out and buy those
products. And one of the chief ways they
do it is to make you feel inadequate
that you don't have something right. And
they'll also associate it with being
attractive and being sexual and so on.
But they're say saying if you want to
feel like you're worth something, please
go out and buy this car. Please go out
and buy this toothpaste so I can get
richer and richer. And it has a very
deep effect. So much so that people see
this is where vulnerability comes in. If
you have no way of getting these things
and you keep getting a message over and
over again through the advertisers that
to be somebody you should have this item
because we are society that deals in
status relationships, right? Status
relationship right down to the
elementary school that the young
students don't want to come to class
without the right clothes.
That has to do with status. And where do
they learn what the right clothes are?
The young people like to feel they're
creating the styles all all the time.
Frequently they're being manipulated in
the styles just like women in particular
are manipulated in the styles. Every
year the fashion industry changes things
so you can go out and buy some more
clothes. So they keep changing the
styles to keep making money. And they
push it. See they push it. They carry
very very well-designed programs to keep
people spending money and to make them
feel out of style, which means that
they're out of status. So, young people
get a real need for this status to feel
like somebody. Now, if you're dealing
with young people who have low self-esteem,
self-esteem,
right, who are poor, who feel pushed out
because they're so-called minority in
some way, then the the need for these
things in terms of feeling like somebody
may become very important. So important
that they will kill to get them,
right? They will kill for the pair of
sneakers. Now, where did they get the
need to have those pair of sneakers?
Where did it come from? It came from
advertising. Now, I'm not saying that
the people had designs to do it, but
they do. Don't think they know. They
look at their market figures. They look
on who's spending on what, and they know
that a lot of inner city youth will go
out and some way get $175 to buy some
pump up sneakers.
And so they know where the market they
know who's buying the the malt liquor.
Black people buy 50% of the malt liquor.
You should know that. See, so you go in
and make demand things from these people
because if you stop buying black people
a lot of these plot
of cereal, they have printouts, you see,
on how to to do it. And nearly every
corporation now has black experts within
the corporation helping them deal with
the black market. I'm telling you. and
how to sell because sometimes they call
me and and want to pick my brain for free,
you know, you know, how do you think
they would respond and so on. So that so
that we have to be aware what advertise,
you know, if you have young children how
difficult it is when they see things on
television advertised and they want
them, the kind of feelings it stirs up
in the parents. Well, well, mommy, I
want that thing.
It looks like, you know, and you end up
maybe buying it for them. And sometimes
it's a piece of junk. See, they even
have this deceptive advertising to
children. The things don't appear after
they buy them the way they make them
appear on television. And so that the
children start getting a kind of I
cynical attitude about life and what
adults are telling them because they're
supposed to trust adults. and they see
adults misleading misleading them and
frequently not acting in their best
interest. And then we have video games.
And the video games, yes, recently with
all this attention to violence, two of
them came out with the most violent
video games that that ever were.
People's heads being cut off and all
kinds of things. And you know that the
younger younger people have a much
higher tolerance and also indifference
toward uh violence than a lot of older
people. And you they they will tolerate
if you may call something violent some
of the older folks and they'll go and
say hey that's nothing. you should have
seen so and so. the head came off and
flew up in the air and blood came
gushing out of the things and that they
look the other really uh critical part
of this that's I think something that's
a little bit different from the past
even in the violent westerns and other
kinds of fields and one of the
differences people point back say well
westerns were violent and so on but
people were not bombarded with it how
often did someone go out and see a
western see now you're bombarded with it
via not just network but also uh uh via
cable. So the intensity
of promoting you know the violence and
other things is just so much um uh uh so
much uh greater and so overwhelming
to um uh for most of the young people.
Now I you you've probably heard you know
people cite them so often you know that
you know children by the time they're 18
had watched something like 20,000
murders on TV and so on and so forth.
And there's also research that shows
that the more violence you show not you
the more it seems like it's it's it's
something of not great concern
particularly when it's done um uh and
you don't really see the reality of the
violence the the the fallout from the
violence that that's been committed uh
in the shows and so on that a lot of
young people and others come away
feeling a kind of indifference or
immunity uh don't have the proper
reactions to to violence or begin to see
it as an everyday everyday kind of thing
anyway and lose their their their sense
of concern and remorse because uh when
the violence is promoted it kind of devalues
devalues life
life
that life isn't worth as much and this
is just something that you you do and
then it's associated so much
particularly for the males that violence
is is associated with be with manhood.
Now, here's another situation where you
have vulnerable populations.
That is if if you have young men, uh,
white, black, Latino, whatever, who are
struggling for a sense of manhood that
maybe and maybe more so because they're
poor, what else, or feel shut out, and
then they from the media, they're
getting a heavy dose of to be a man is
to be violent and do something violent. Then
Then
that's what they do. And then again, all
the associations with manhood and
weapons. Again, I can get Freudian on
you. People don't like to talk this way
anymore, but guns are phallic symbols,
right? Heavy phallic symbols of power
and all kinds of other things that
people use. People don't like those. But
think of think about it. A lot of
language of guns and use of something
kind of an additional additional weapon.
And if you hear a lot of the confusion
on some of this uh these profane
records, a lot of kind of association
with guns and penises and all kinds of
things in the lyrics kind of get all
mixed up in what they you know what
they're doing. So that that element
enters into it and then using the gun
becomes an instrument of power.
Then the question of of of uh getting
the message that you deal with things uh
the first order of dealing with things
is through a weapon or with violence is
a message that young people get over
television and through the movie and
over and over and again.
And so it's not surprising that they
resort uh to weapons and things when
they are in a dispute. But it's not all
about conflict resolution. That's why I
said I I don't want to put everything
off on the media because a lot of the
the the the violence and so on has very
little to do with conflict resolution
types of things. That is when when
someone steps on your shoe and you shoot
them to death. That is not about
conflict. What's the conflict there?
What's to be resolved? Do you understand
what I mean? If you beat up someone
because they looked at you the wrong way
in the hallway, what's the conflict that
they're supposed to be resolving? The
other the thing that's operating is that
a lot of young people
have such high levels of anger and rage
that it's easily triggered. Now when I
start thinking about uh the media and
popular culture and so on, what what is
their responsibility of what effect do
they have on producing that rage? Where
does it come from? Or is it really
coming from someplace else? And then we
have to ask if it's coming from
someplace else, what's the effect of the
media on maybe the adults who producing
that rage in the in the in the in the children?
children?
See, we we're we're focusing on young
people, but remember, we are affected
too by what we see and what we hear. And
what about um uh what does watching soap
operas all day do
to your to your head or your sense of of
reality? And then remember that
frequently young children are also
watching the soap operas frequently with
their parents. What effect is that
having on? What is parental responsibility?
responsibility?
How do we educate children to deal with
something like television? How much
should you have it on and how much
should you have it off? These are
questions that we're responsible for.
Why do people have have it on seven
hours a day?
Why are children watching 25 to 30 hours
a week?
The secondary effect of why this may
have negative effects on children is
that it interferes with their ability to
learn and their ability to educated if
get educated if they watch too much. If
they don't get educated, this is not
going to give them the kinds of tools,
both moral and otherwise, to deal with
issues and resolve conflicts and deal
with the world and give them a sense of
self-esteem if they're flooded and
denied these uh uh opportunities because
of of of of television. Um
there are many other secondary effects.
I I I'm supposed to limit myself to half
an hour and I'm about there.
Uh, and it's impossible to to uh uh to
cover uh all of this, but let me let me
just um say that the family
and the community has to become very key
in what people watch and what the
children do and they have to get more
control. I think the whole community is
too passive in relationship to what the
media is doing to their commun
communities and what they're exposing
their children to and they have to be
more activist. Remember when I te came
out with Cop Killer?
It was one of the few songs that got
withdrawn. Why did it get withdrawn?
Because cops have some power.
And the cops said, "We ain't going to
protect you if you sing that song." And
they put pressure on Time Warner and Ice
Tea said, "I'm singing what I want,
freedom of speech." And Time Warner
first said, "Freedom of speech? What are
you trying to sense us?" Suddenly the
song disappeared.
>> Disappeared from the album. They took it
right off because the police all over
the country protested. I think that if
communities rose up in protest or
stopped buying or went to the record
shops and said, "How come you're selling
this explicit lyrics to this
eight-year-old uh uh uh girl or
8-year-old boy?" That they will listen
because they're about making money and
that we have to realize that that's the
bottom line for many of many of them is
not the social consciousness that the
bottom line becomes uh money for them
and for the advertisers. I'm going to
stop stop here, but I have to tell you
something to make you laugh. You look so
glum um out there, but I have my watch
on on the podium and I was watching it
and uh I put it up there when I came up
here and I I learned that from um
watching ministers and preachers when I
was young. And I used to go into these
storefront churches with my father in
East Harlem. And a minister would come
out and they usually had on a dark suit
and a vest. And in the vest they had a
big watch on a gold chain that was like
part of the uniform. And they would come
out first thing and walk out to the
podium and they would take this big old
watch and they would sit it up on a
podium. And one time I turned to my
father I said pop what does that mean?
He said not a damn thing. Thank you very much.
Um, I'm going to take some uh some
questions. Remember, I'm I'm a
psychiatrist and I know about I know
about everything. So, uh you can you can
ask me anything uh anything you like. I
really uh couldn't cover all the things
I wanted to cover uh because of the the
the time limitations and it's such a big
uh big topic. But you might have some
>> Yeah. Uh sir, I just want to say
everybody has to be careful because
there even popular songs about killing
your brothers and sisters and parents
and and and and the community should get
I don't agree with that.
>> I don't agree with that. I think it's
wrong to censor uh free speech at any
time. I think the main problem is that
rather than censoring free speech, we
should recognize, as you said, doctor,
that there are certain vulnerable
segments of our society. Those children
should be protected. Yes. But when we go
down that road, that slippery road of
censoring free speech, we're asking big
brother to come into our houses. I think
it's dangerous. I think it's ill advised
to crush uh the freedom that we've got
in this society to speak our minds at
any time. Now, I I believe that just as
one person has the right to say what
they want, another person should be able
to say, "You're wrong. You're in the
wrong context." Uh you shouldn't be
saying it in front of this vulnerable group.
group.
But we should not
say that anything is forbidden. We
should not crush anything that comes
I don't have to say nothing. You people
>> Hi. Uh the comment that he just made,
we'll be asking Big Brother into our
home. We probably would be, but I'd say
come on in because of the violence
that's on TV now, especially in the
videos. And I can remember back in
probably 1989 when um Easy E had music.
He was making money underground. They
didn't even have it on the videos or the
radios. I think you could you can go
back to them still making that money
without them being on the videos and the
radios because he was making big bucks
underground. So if they could do it like
that again, fine. But showing it on TV
and the videos, showing it to the kids,
I don't care what anybody say. It does
>> I have a question about um parenting
black children. Um, I'm interested in
adopting an older child because I see a
great need and it's something that I'm
interested in. But one of my cons, how old?
old?
>> School age. School age. School age.
>> School age. Right. But one of my
concerns about doing that um would be,
you know, how realistic is it for me to
think that I could have any real impact
through parenting a child who has
already been impacted by other
influences? um you know what do you do
when you're when you're you know
involved in any kind of relationship god
parenting I was involved in the big
sisters program um and it's hard
sometimes to reach through whatever
they've already experienced and I just
want to know what the prognosis is for
doing that is it realistic to think you
can or how do you do it
>> I I I think any any any child an older
child you know uh foster children who
you adopt have had experience you know
obviously beforehand with caretakers and
sometimes uh uh a lot of it not good,
sometimes good. I mean it depends, you know.
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