Thursday, October 21, 2004

Tough talk - who's listening?

Here's the tough talk:

"'It's not all right for your 13-year-old daughter to have a child,' he said. 'You should be arguing with her about why she didn't pick up her socks.'

The same goes for boys, Cosby said.

'Your 13-year-old son has no business thinking he can drop his seed and walk away and then call himself a man,' he said."

And here's someone who listened:

As he listened with some of his teachers from Milwaukee Leadership Training Center, 12-year-old Jerdari Bradford began to think of some of the songs he's danced to, songs he said glorify violence and use derogatory terms for women.

"To me now, I feel like it's stupid," Bradford said. "The specific lyrics of the songs, they're giving you bad messages. They're telling you to go out and shoot somebody."

When Cosby stepped down from the lectern, Bradford said the message was "strong," and might even change some who heard it.

"That's if they listen," he added. "If they have the guts to change their ways."

Thank you Dr. Cosby.

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