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I would now like to introduce the
director of the Anacostia Museum, Mr.
Steven Nuome,
to introduce our keynote speaker. Stephen,
good afternoon. Here we are 68 years
after Cottage Gy Woodson decided that
there should be some annual observance
of African and African-American
contributions to our society.
Here we are today in one auditorium of
the venerable Smithsonian Institution
celebrating. And across the way at the
National Museum of American History,
there's a conference that looks at the
current of the spirit in the African diaspora.
diaspora.
And the Smithsonian itself has made
history by appointing an African-American
African-American
to head the National Museum of American History.
Today's speaker is
someone that we should all be familiar
with and many of us probably are if we
watch television because we saw his name
roll against in the credits for the
Cosby Show and for A Different World.
But his contributions go much further
than that. and his work is something
that should be familiar to any of us who
have the responsibility
of raising or educating
African-American children. And that
means any of us who work in a museum.
Dr. Fusant is a clinical professor of
psychiatry and faculty associate dean of
student affairs at Harvard Medical School.
School.
He's the author of Why Blacks Kill
Blacks and a co-author of Black Child
Care, which was revised and issued again
in 1992 under the title Raising Black Children.
Children.
He's written a number of articles for
magazines, both professional and lay.
He's an expert on race relations in
America, the dynamics of prejudice, and
issues of diversity in our increasingly
multicultural society.
In addition, he is active in consulting
on media images and on a wide range of
social issues.
He is very very concerned with media
images and issues regarding portrayal of
children and changing families. He is a
strong proponent of nonviolent parenting
and parent and education.
But he's not just a psychiatrist and a doctor.
doctor.
He's been involved. He's been an
activist. He was there marching
along with Andrew Young and Jesse
Jackson and Dr. King.
He provided medical care to civil rights
workers in the deep south.
So, we have someone who is taking that
activism and that concern
to help us raise a
new and better generation so that the
black future and America's future would
be brighter. I'm proud to present to you
Uh thank you very much uh for inviting
me to uh speak with you uh uh today. Uh
I really enjoyed the opening numbers uh
which will serve as counterpoint
uh to my discussion about u uh uh pop
culture and consumerism here in the
United States. But I couldn't help
wondering while I was listening to uh
Mosart and and Hayen
uh what the pop culture was back then.
Uh was that pop culture?
Uh what were the regular ordinary folks
doing and what were they singing? The
other thing I thought that came to my
mind was
100 and200 years from now what will we
be playing from this era?
See what will we be playing? What will
be the classical music?
Will they be playing Dellon?
You see, will will jazz survive
200 years from now? Will the blues survive?
I think those are kind of interesting
thoughts, you know, as kind of culture
evolves and some of our concern now, uh,
particularly with pop culture. And I
in its in its impact is so much more
enormous than any pop culture could have
been back in the 19th century or the
18th century, any other time because we
have better mechanisms for spreading the
word and information systems and
communication through radio, through
television, through uh records that we
never had before. This is all relatively
recent, isn't it? In terms of the
history of the world that we have this
type of enormous bombardment,
whether we kind of like it or not, of
popular culture coming into our homes.
It is impossible to talk about the
family any longer without talking about
the presence of television because
television has become part of the family.
family.
It become part has become part of the
the educational system and children
watch more television than they spend
time in school.
They may watch more television than they
spend time talking to their parents or
their brothers and and and sisters.
The average television set is on 7 hours
and a half each day in America. Seven
and a half hours. You know who watch
Women 55 and over.
Average about six hours and a half of
television watching per day. The second
group are men 55 and over. One of the
the groups that watches television the
least are teenage girls
averaging about 3 hours. Now many of you
may not believe that from uh what you
see your children uh doing but let me
just get into some some issues because I
don't have uh a lot of time.
I think one of the issues for us is
what effect popular culture and media
have on the population as a whole and
what effect does it have on different
segments of the population who may be
more or less vulnerable because of their
ethnic status, their social economic
status. It's not, you know, people say,
well, if the media is so bad and putting
out bad messages, why isn't it making
everybody kind of uh uh uh uh, you know,
messed up or having difficulty? Is
because different groups are more
vulnerable to whatever you put out there
on the media, whatever you're doing
that's negative, it will affect people
depending on their susceptibility to
whatever the message may be, u depending
on their place in society. And right now
I think we're kind of in the midst of of
of a society where you know the the the
the people on kind of freedom of speech
side and kind of have a anything goes
type of attitude that is if if if if you
can if you can do it as this freedom to
do it and not much concern about the
effects of whatever they're doing. In
other words, there's very little
restraint. In fact, Anything Goes was
the title of a song by Guns and Roses a
number of years ago ago. One of the
first groups was a white group to really
get out there with a lot of profane
lyrics. That was a group that started a
white group that was using the word
in their in their songs way back
in in the in the late um in the late
80s. But let me tell you how the the
particularly the record industry and
some of television other people their
attitudes uh about this and where they
they mislead and they don't show a sense
of responsibility and they hoodwink us.
Now a good example of their hoodwinking
us and we're all falling for it under
the banner of of freedom of speech and
and don't censor us is this business
around uh music that is profane and
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