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mstaphd:
I understand that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton etc., don't speak to the generation of today, but who does? Chuck D is someone who has A LOT of good things to say but who's listening to talk radio in the community? Some of the early pioneers of hip hop and gangsta rap aren't even in the game nowadays. I'll bet that a lot of peeps nowadays have never heard Ice Cube and NWA or Ice T on the mic, and have no idea how important they are, or how ground breaking their music and the music of Public Enemy was and is. Cosby rightfully tried to speak out against what the black community has been morphing into, but he got dissed back into hiding when no one else would dare to say what needs to be said. After catching some flack for opening a school for poor girls in South Africa and not here in America, Oprah explained that kids here are just not interested and are unenthusiastic about education so she's sick of trying. You mean the all powerful O has finally found a dragon that even SHE can't slay?!! Incedentally, Oprah has had a long standing feud with the hip hop community because she refuses to delve in negative stereotypes, so score one for the ego O.The Dr. Kings', Malcolm X's and Rosa Parks' of the civil rights era did not fight so hard, and even sacrifice their lives, just so that we could ride on some 'rims', get our hair and nails did, and get gold teefs and platinum grillz, and you know dat fa shizzle mah nizzle. I do have to admit that as a big fan of the A-Team, Mr.T was way ahead of all of us on the bling thing.
Chris Rock again was right. There is a war raging in the black community, there's Black People, and then there's Ni*gas.
After only 40 years of civil rights in this country, we've managed to undo in about a decade, what had previously taken several generations to achieve. We're going backwards in time folks, faster than Marty McFly ever did in that stainless steel Cokewagon. At this rate a 6th grade education will be a status symbol in a land full of Obese Ni*gas, phat from being phorce phed a diet of negative hip hop.
The victim mentality is not working so we need to stop blaming everyone else for our kids falling behind other kids in school. Dumb fa king kids come from dumb fa king parents peeps, it's just that simple. Children learn a lot in their formative years from imitating their environment. If you can't speak well or choose to speak slang, then so will your kids.This won't serve them well in a world that doesn't function on CP time. If you can't read or read well, or never read to your kids, then your kids may have trouble reading as well. If you choose to bump dem dope trax filled with all dat phat mature subject matter in front of your kids, then how do you think they'll respond?
Grown peeps are gettin' teefs, rims and hanging out at clubs, but are nowhere to be found on Parent Teacher night at school.
It took millions of people hundreds of years to get us where we were even in 1964. Here in early 2007, I fear that even on the eve of the day where Barack Obama has announced that he's formed a presidential exploratory committee, we as a people may have squandared some of the gains we made through the civil rights struggle. We may have fallen prey to the worst enemy to blacks as a people, ourselves. The negative hip hop lifestyle is the disease that is eating us from within and there are NO Dr. Kings today, or in the future that can save us from ourselves....or are there?
So like all things in life, please remember do enjoy things in moderation only. Don't be that guy or gal who drops the baton of the King Legacy this early in the race.
Don't you be the one. Don't be the Ni*ga that Kills King.
peace
I understand that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton etc., don't speak to the generation of today, but who does? Chuck D is someone who has A LOT of good things to say but who's listening to talk radio in the community? Some of the early pioneers of hip hop and gangsta rap aren't even in the game nowadays. I'll bet that a lot of peeps nowadays have never heard Ice Cube and NWA or Ice T on the mic, and have no idea how important they are, or how ground breaking their music and the music of Public Enemy was and is. Cosby rightfully tried to speak out against what the black community has been morphing into, but he got dissed back into hiding when no one else would dare to say what needs to be said. After catching some flack for opening a school for poor girls in South Africa and not here in America, Oprah explained that kids here are just not interested and are unenthusiastic about education so she's sick of trying. You mean the all powerful O has finally found a dragon that even SHE can't slay?!! Incedentally, Oprah has had a long standing feud with the hip hop community because she refuses to delve in negative stereotypes, so score one for the ego O.The Dr. Kings', Malcolm X's and Rosa Parks' of the civil rights era did not fight so hard, and even sacrifice their lives, just so that we could ride on some 'rims', get our hair and nails did, and get gold teefs and platinum grillz, and you know dat fa shizzle mah nizzle. I do have to admit that as a big fan of the A-Team, Mr.T was way ahead of all of us on the bling thing.
Chris Rock again was right. There is a war raging in the black community, there's Black People, and then there's Ni*gas.
After only 40 years of civil rights in this country, we've managed to undo in about a decade, what had previously taken several generations to achieve. We're going backwards in time folks, faster than Marty McFly ever did in that stainless steel Cokewagon. At this rate a 6th grade education will be a status symbol in a land full of Obese Ni*gas, phat from being phorce phed a diet of negative hip hop.
The victim mentality is not working so we need to stop blaming everyone else for our kids falling behind other kids in school. Dumb fa king kids come from dumb fa king parents peeps, it's just that simple. Children learn a lot in their formative years from imitating their environment. If you can't speak well or choose to speak slang, then so will your kids.This won't serve them well in a world that doesn't function on CP time. If you can't read or read well, or never read to your kids, then your kids may have trouble reading as well. If you choose to bump dem dope trax filled with all dat phat mature subject matter in front of your kids, then how do you think they'll respond?
Grown peeps are gettin' teefs, rims and hanging out at clubs, but are nowhere to be found on Parent Teacher night at school.
It took millions of people hundreds of years to get us where we were even in 1964. Here in early 2007, I fear that even on the eve of the day where Barack Obama has announced that he's formed a presidential exploratory committee, we as a people may have squandared some of the gains we made through the civil rights struggle. We may have fallen prey to the worst enemy to blacks as a people, ourselves. The negative hip hop lifestyle is the disease that is eating us from within and there are NO Dr. Kings today, or in the future that can save us from ourselves....or are there?
So like all things in life, please remember do enjoy things in moderation only. Don't be that guy or gal who drops the baton of the King Legacy this early in the race.
Don't you be the one. Don't be the Ni*ga that Kills King.
peace
