<p>I have class tonight</p>
<p>^^
It just looks like a purple drink, what’s wrong with it?</p>
<p>We do have smart black kids. Some honestly just hide it.</p>
<p>^A computer class?
Do you learn codes and stuff in classes like that?</p>
<p>We need more. Like the white kids. </p>
<p>And yeah it’s frustrating.</p>
<p>Why do you think there is a bridge between the education of different races?</p>
<p>We have 6 smart black kids in my entire grade.
Sad, really.</p>
<p>Black- it starts at home. Most minorities have that “hood mentality”. Parents lived in the projects, didn’t go to school, and that’s put upon the children. It’s hard to academically succeed without family support. There’s that “why work when there’s welfare and food stamps” or why go to college when I can just get a little job and state assistance. </p>
<p>The black culture as a whole thinks being intelligent is stupid, yet they complain of their situation.</p>
<p>Yea, most blacks frown upon being smart in lieu of being super athletic.</p>
<p>We have 2 smart black kids in my grade. This is out of 730 people.</p>
<p>I don’t wanna sound conceited… But I think it’s just me. I don’t know of ranks after top six… But the next is probably within top 30(hopefully).</p>
<p>hmmm okay.</p>
<p>But I know many black people, who do not live in the hood who are as smart as heck, who could be val if they even did hwk or bothered to do tests, yet they still end up “failing” in life.</p>
<p>Why do you think they are the way they are?
Is it because of this idea of black culture stating that people should not be smart?</p>
<p>Black- yes. It’s not about location. It’s the mentality that other races (white, Asian) can’t begin to understand. They think it’s just a skin color thing. It’s way more complicated.</p>
<p>Why do you think this idea came into being?</p>
<p>I know for a fact the throughout the civil-rights era blacks wanted more, how did that fade away?</p>
<p>Black- I ask myself that everyday. We used to be a people given NOTHING who worked hard for their own… There was real PRIDE in being black. Now? I’m disgusted. All of those brave black men women and children basically suffered in vain because only a small percent of us appreciate and make use of the advantages we have. </p>
<p>I’d rather have lived back then than now. Now, I’m fighting against my own.</p>
<p>I like living in the present. But I feel that not enough is being done to show those people what they are missing. Something is not right and honestly it will only get worse if nobody helps them. People always say the jail are filled with blacks, but my question is why are they there? What could the govt. or anybody have done to stop them, or educate them when they were younger?</p>
<p>That is my prob.</p>
<p>@Daxlo.</p>
<p>I’m almost done reading your poem.</p>
<p>I think it’s the family. Even if the parents didn’t amount to anything, wouldn’t they want their children to be secure?</p>
<p>My gramma was almost Val of her class (dropped out because she was pregnant with my uncle then went back but they wouldn’t give it to her). She wanted to be a forensic scientist. Do you think anyone (outside of family, like school staff) encouraged or informed her? No. Even if… She would have been denied from college and a job because of her race. Now she’s been working at a phone company for 30 years. </p>
<p>My mom had to do it all on her own. The nursing school advisor told all the black students they couldn’t do it. My mom applied for a job when she graduated at the hospital and a white woman told her there were no more positions… But FOUR white women from my mom’s class went in after her and got the jobs… My mom wrote a letter to the hospital board and now she’s been working there for… I forgot how many, maybe 5 or 6 years since she graduated. </p>
<p>And she went to the military first cause my gramma didn’t want to disclose her financial information so my mom could get FA. </p>
<p>My gramma is stuck in time where she thinks she has to impress white people still. On Christmas he has a white Santa on the outside of the door but a black one on the inside.</p>
<p>I think that the school should have helped her.
you said that her family did but what did the school do?
schools need to reach out to students more. not everybody has the best people around them.</p>
<p>The family didn’t help in the case of my mom or gramma, and neither did the school. </p>
<p>I think all rappers need to get like Lupe. Spit intelligent ****. That hood ghetto whatever mess isn’t cute. Then when they’re adults they’re gonna complain about “the white man” and what they did to keep them down. Grow up. I couldn’t live my life purposely not trying. </p>
<p>I’m about to go to jail for tax evasion because I’m not paying for people to sit on their asses.</p>
<p>^
I feel the same way about not paying to let people just sit around unless they need it.</p>
<p>i think that music may also be causing harm
<em>cough</em> little wayne <em>cough</em></p>
<p>Wayne and everybody else. Welfare isn’t supposed to be lifelong that’s why it’s called state ASSISTANCE. My mom had in when she was in nursing school and then she immediately went off when she graduated. It’s slavery. She said one time they cut off funds. Everybody was assed out, couldn’t get food or anything. Its ridiculous.</p>
<p>It is slavery. I’m glad that i’m not the only one who sees it that way.</p>
<p>You said the name Lupe and I was look who’s that so I looked it up and it is good music.</p>
<p>I never listen to rap (only rockand pop for me lolz)… but he’s not just like rap, which is cool. and the music and the words are good. I like it.</p>
<p>You didn’t know who lupe fiasco was o.O that’s my husband lol. </p>
<p>He’s not world famous and his CDs don’t sellout, but then again he doesn’t talk about f*** b****** get money like everybody else does. </p>
<p>Listen to his song dumb it down (without adults around lol, or with headphones). It’s not profanity bad in the sense of main stream rap… Well you have to listen to understand.</p>