WTF! Texas Board Of Education Declare Hip Hop Is Not A Cultural Movement

[California]

like what?

i think the high mortality rate that the urban low income communities have is a far more important issue . Also their crime rates, drop out rates etc are bigger influences on an urban youth . This phenomena would in turn explain why 95 percent of their music is about other counter-productive behavior and thus would come full circle . Id rather read about that , than about lil wayne in my textbooks . Bill Cosby would agree with me

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as a matter of fact, it might be a good idea to offer a course on "hip-hop" . That may give some people ,that otherwise would drop out, a motive to stay in school and give books a try . I just dont want to study about it . They should also offer a course for " alternative rock " culture

 

[[F_or_DEAF]]

i think the high mortality rate that the urban low income communities have is a far more important issue . Also their crime rates, drop out rates etc are bigger influences on an urban youth . This phenomena would in turn explain why 95 percent of their music is about other counter-productive behavior and thus would come full circle . Id rather read about that , than about lil wayne in my textbooks . Bill Cosby would agree with me

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as a matter of fact, it might be a good idea to offer a course on "hip-hop" . That may give some people ,that otherwise would drop out, a motive to stay in school and give books a try . I just dont want to study about it . They should also offer a course for " alternative rock " culture

i'm still trying to figure out which one you are:

or

 

[deRaNged 4 Phuk'dup]

i see...and what books were those exactly???

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wait...LEMME GUESS:

give yourself a hand

Actually never read or heard of any of those except Art of War. Lol. That was a kid book to me.

I was heavily inspired by the Autobiography of Fredrick Douglas(irony with the topic at hand). If you haven't already, read it. Very eye opening to the way I percieved myself and the world. It will make alot of sense.

I ain't close to rich, just far as f**k away from poor. Alot of people don't know what "poor" is to know why you should be so happy to get away from it. Others don't know anything but being poor, so they find nothing wrong with the way they live.

I'm lower middle class and enjoying every second of it. I ain't wiping my azz with $20s and throwing em out to bums. I'm giving them my beer money, that new fitted cap I wanted, that sack I could be blazing. That's why "selfish" is an offensive word to me. lol.

 

[[F_or_DEAF]]

the Autobiography of Fredrick Douglas

cool...i'll take a look.

 

[deRaNged 4 Phuk'dup]

^^^It makes alot of my views make sense. That sounds sceptical I'm sure, but I just can't get points across as well as he could. Even if you e-book it from a torrent, I advise anyone who hasn't who spent their entire life being told what they can't ammount to to give it a read.

 

[Voss25]

Library, Parents, Grandparents, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon, History Channel, PBS, Internet, College > 1 Public School History book.

Here's a fvcking amazing site for documentaries:

www.ninjavideo.net

It's kinda weird, you have open up a popup for the videos to play. Click on where it says "Click here to launch the NinjaVideo Helper Beta 0.3.10" then choose the video you wanna watch. Some of them are HD. The site's updated often too.

You'll never find the whole truth in any history book. Check out a German school book on WWI, or a Japanese one on WWII, How do the Spaniards explain where they got all that gold...... I could run on forever about my old textbooks and a bunch of other countries' textbook inaccuracies, fallacies and understatements all day. The books were BS when I went and they'll be BS when my son starts school. That's what I'm here for.

That's true, I've read some non-English books and the stuff they have is really different from what we're taught over here.

Also have satellite that gets feeds from Europe, Russia, China, Middle East, and Africa. It's really easy to see the bias when you're not used to it.

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Oh, and F_or_Deaf....here's some breakdowns of the healthcare bill:

Pessimistic:


Optimistic:

 

[[F_or_DEAF]]

I advise anyone who hasn't who spent their entire life being told what they can't ammount to to give it a read

word.

the question is though what kind of people would tell somebody else that and why?

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exactly what i was looking for.

good post!


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the question is though what kind of people would tell somebody else that and why?

AND if those same people are still here, doing the same things...

 

[WatchWhatHappens1204]

i've heard about it before... gonna look for it online now... that book...

 

[Voss25]

Yeah, so um...update

The education board has dropped references to the slave trade in favour of calling it the more innocuous "Atlantic triangular trade"

Are you f'n kidding me!

changes include sidelining Thomas Jefferson, who favoured separation of church and state, while introducing a new focus on the "significant contributions" of pro-slavery Confederate leaders during the civil war.

Slavery is good. The Bible says so. Jesus can't be wrong.

recasts the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as driven by Islamic fundamentalism.

Right. Has nothing to do with forceful displacement. Islamic or not, you would fight back if somebody kicked you out your house, bulldozed your community, built settlements for their own people, then proceeded to use advance military weapons to kill your friends and relatives.

The new curriculum asserts that "the right to keep and bear arms" is an important element of a democratic society.

And yet in Canada, where we do have gun control, we live in a much more peaceful and democratic society.

Study of Sir Isaac Newton is dropped in favour of examining scientific advances through military technology.

Science isn't good unless it involves figuring out how to bomb the Middle East better than we already can.

anti-communist witch-hunt by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s may have been justified.

Down with Nazis....oh wait.

There are strands where the free enterprise system fits appropriately but they have stretched the concept of the free enterprise system back to medieval times. The president of the Texas historical association could not find any documentation to support the stretching of the free enterprise system to ancient times but it made no difference.

In Texas, we don't like facts. They tend to disagree with us.

One amendment requires that students be taught that economic prosperity requires "minimal government intrusion and taxation".

Clearly a partisan opinion that they are trying to pass off as fact.

Dunbar was elected to the state education board on the back of a campaign in which she argued for the teaching of creationism – euphemistically known as intelligent design – in science classes.

Cynthia Dumbo and the rest of the creationists can only hide the truth from kids for so long. Evolution is based on facts.

But this shows you the power of ignorance in places like Texas. If she can campaign on an issue like this and win, it is a monumental intellectual FAIL on the part of Texans.

Among the advisers the board brought in to help rewrite the curriculum is David Barton, the leader of WallBuilders which seeks to promote religion in history. Barton has campaigned against the separation of church and state.

Hey, theocracies work great for Saudi Arabia and Iran, don't they. Wouldn't the USA be wonderful as a theocracy? Just imagine being able to own slaves again! YAY!!!! :banghead:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/16/texas-schools-rewrites-us-history

 

[Ty baby]

I like cheese

 

[Voss25]

^^^ How old are you?