Inventing Al Gore: on Civil Rights

Tipper & Al pushed for voluntary record lyric labeling

[Tipper and Al were stunned by the explicit violence in rock lyrics] when their children, ages 6 and 8, began to ask questions about things they had seen on MTV videos. Tipper, who as a teenager had inscribed “Rolling Stones Forever” on her old boyfriend’s 45rpm, was now an anxious mother of preadolescents. “These images frightened my children; they frightened me!” she wrote in her 1987 book Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society.. Tipper co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center and petitioned record makers for “voluntary self-restraint,” proposing a categorical rating system similar to the one employed by the film industry. In a committee hearing, Al Gore said about record executives, “I think they should take a look at what their companies are doing and just ask themselves whether or not this is the way they want to spend their lives, if this is the way they want to earn a living.” Source: Inventing Al Gore, p.168-72

*The above quotations are from Inventing Al Gore, by Bill Turque.* Click here for definitions & background information on Civil Rights. Click here for more quotes by Al Gore on Civil Rights.
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