Yfrisby says:
Yvette
Unfortunately, this is true!! However, I believe that we need to hold adults within our own community to a much higher standard. Although I believe some celebrities can be seen as role models, I think that individuals (and not necessarily leaders) should carry themselves as role models and been seen as such from the younger generation. My goal is to develop a speakers bureau of African American women who can talk to adolescent girls about the challenges they face; drawing own their own experiences during adolescence in addition to what it takes to succeed and to get where they currently are. There needs to be a "campaign" around this type of programming so that young people can begin to see "celebrities/role models" that work and live around and with them -- not just the images on the tv that can be so far removed from them.

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ps_ulano says:
What can we do the change the disconnect between the youth, their local leaders and local mentors of good moral standing. I feel it's healthier when a child looks up to a person that they have an inter-personal connection with rather than a person in the media whom they've only come to know through an 'image', a 'facade'.

That's dangerous because we all know that more than 85% of the time, the most glorified people in the media aren't even a fifth of who they are cracked up to be.

By perpetuating this we are limiting who has major influence over them. That's wrong. We have to change this. A child is aspired by, for example, the wealth and success of a Sean Combs. But he doesn't realize that under neath that is a man with little moral standing. He may have good business ethics, but he's not a family man and has exploited women via is lifetime of work.

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