From Screen to Reality: The Impact of Media #shorts

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]Think about it.

[00:00:00]>> Explain to me with all that love, the education of the private tutor. Everyone gives showering you with love, the marble floor, and then you go to the other side. Mhm. It was a It was [clears throat] a It was a gradual process. So, as a kid, I don't remember ever seeing a positive black movie uh outside of Roots, Slavery, and and The Cosby Show, and Sanford and Son. I grew up during the black exploitation era. All my images are negative. This is the time the black man is being removed out of the household intentionally. So, every man I see is a pimp, a woman beater, a drug seller, a womanizer, uh I see all the positive women, but I see men. And this is where it started, watching television. So, by the time I'm 6, 7 years old, I've done seen Superfly, The Mack, I've done seen all the movies about pimping. I know how to tell a [ __ ] shut up, [ __ ] I've seen my uncle beat up women, uh I've seen on television. So, I had I live in a suburban area. We live in a We live in a We live in >> You were sheltered.

[00:01:01]>> So, I never seen this in real life. I'm the kid that's been playing the game that you got in today, that when he get through the game, he going to shoot up a school when he get mad. I was that kid who been watching all this entertainment with no parental supervision.