And, more to the point - Wynton Marsalis

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KENNETH WHYTE | November 15, 2007 |

The '60s was a social phenomenon in which a generation of kids had the moral high ground on their parents. That had never happened before. The youth were against the Vietnam War, they were for women's rights. There was tremendous illusion that younger people know more than older people. That's not true. So what happened to every generation since that generation? Do I have the moral high ground on my father? Do my kids have that over me? No possible way.

Jazz is adult music, it's not appealing to kids...I'm there to teach them. You don't have a bunch of prodigies in jazz, 12- or 13-year-olds. So when you say, why do [young people] only want to sit in front of television and look at somebody naked shaking their ass? Well, the answer to that is obvious. Wouldn't you want to do that when you were 12 or 13?

I think that there will be a generation that will reject [it]. If your introduction to sex is pornography and you're 12 or 13, one or two generations of that — it's going to come through girls more than boys — they're going to get tired of [it]. When you notice all the younger women who are suffering, like Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan and all these people who are kind of victims of this system, and then people prey on them, 250 people taking photographs of them, since they were 12 or 13 years old, selling themselves in that way for the consumption of adults and for kids. It seems we have the inability to look at our system and say, "Man, how did we get to this point?"

Q: Why do you think it'll be young girls[rejecting it]?

A: I think because they're the greatest victims of it, and a victim of something always is the one who wants it to be removed. Like, who wanted to be free more than a slave?