Discussion...Is it a contradiction?

[Carter G. Hoodson]

I work with a group of teenagers...whether at risks or promising teenagers. We come together every Wednesday. We talk about everything...from civics, world government, history, common talk...I try to reach them as much as I can.

Tonight, a student of mine noticed I was listening to 50 cent major distribution on my I-pod. What he said to me really messed me up that whole time I spent with them and even after. He basically told me what makes me so better that I can listen to it and he cannot. I keep drilling them on today's hip hop music and how it has affected the growth of our younger generation in a negative way.

He pat me on my back with a smirk and said "it was okay, I still love you bro". I know he was serious and I felt he was right. That whole time I was trying to come up with a reason why it was acceptable for me to listen to it and he cannot. I keep drilling to them that music is impressionable no matter who you are or where you come from.

Is it a contradiction?

 

[Taadow]

Why can he not listen to Curtis "Fivety Cent" Jackson?

 

[Fmju]

you're a terrible mentor.

 

[Insensitive]

IF you personally believe that a particular brand of music
is destructive and directly responsible for the negative paths
that some follow why would you listen to the very artists
who embody that ?

Of course it's a contradiction.
I would expect anyone who believes that music has had a profound
effect on any group of people would do their best to avoid
that music and it's negative influences.