Posted on 10/27/2007 1:02:59 PM PDT by Stoat
Saturday, October 27, 2007
HOUSTON — A school district police officer suspended for creating and distributing a "Ghetto Handbook" has been fired.
Gang investigator Roby Morris, 34, had worked for 11 years at the Houston Independent School District before being fired this week, according to an investigation report released Friday.
Morris was placed on paid leave in August after school officials learned of his eight-page booklet subtitled "Wucha dun did now?"
The booklet was given to other police officers at a May roll call and tells them learning the definitions in it will allow them to speak as if they "just came out of the hood."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
From the “About This Video” link at YouTube:
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This was shot on BET Animation and 106 and Park...
This was shot on BET Animation and 106 and Park. IT IS A SATIRICAL OBSERVATION ON THE CURRENT RIDICULOUS, OFFENSIVE, AND EMBARRASSING STATE OF THE ONCE NOBLE ART OF HIP HOP. THE RAPPER WHO MADE THE SONG IS ALSO SATIRING THE CURRENT POPULAR RAP MUSIC WHICH IS AN EMBARRASSMENT TO EVERYTHING RAP WAS. WHILE MAKING THIS SOCIAL SATIRE, HE ALSO PROVIDE A POSITIVE MESSAGE AND A SOCIAL COMMENTARY.
African Americans, open your mind. This man is not offending us. He’s smaking us in the face and saying Wake Up. This is what they think of us...and the reality is...most of it is true.
Unfortunately I have no connection to the authoring of the video. I merely uploaded it as a show of support and like-mindedness.
I feel that the video was a clever, harsh, striking, and much-needed parody/satire on the current state of hip hop. Hip hop, originated as a black folk style of music, the voice of the innercity. A conscious, aware, if hardened by it’s environment, expression of the life of middle/poor-class African Americans and Hispanic/Latino Americans in America. It has, like EVERY style of music before it, finally succumb to commercialization and thus the current POPULAR hip hop is little more than brain-mush over percolating beats. This song highlights that, with the line: “I used to makes song with concepts and shit, but now I wanna go platinum”. The irony of that line, says it all.
In addition to being a strong satire/parody, it also instills some very strong positivities: reading, hygiene, ownership of things that cultivate wealth and worth (buy some land), responsibility (raise your kids), etc...concepts that popular hip hop is NOT teaching to our youth anymore.
So it parodies viciously, and instructs what is lacking concurrently.
For this reason, as an African American male who is passionate about the origins of hip hop and a purist of the hip hop form sans commercialization, and as a human being in general worried for our future and our progeny, I couldn’t HELP but support the creator of the song and video by uploading it.
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You dissin' my slammin' ride? :-)
Thanks very much for posting....that really helps to put it in context.
You make an excellent point.
You might enjoy this short (100 seconds) vdieo cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4jembul5ek
You might enjoy the short video at post #25
Thank you very much :-)
Although the execution of the 'Ghetto Handbook' could have been done better, and I doubt that it would have been possible to produce anything remotely similar that would have passed muster with the PC 'Police', the fact remains that law enforcement officers have a tough job which is made intentionally tougher by the criminal element doing everything that it possibly can to avoid detection. Among their strategies is to adopt an intentionally-nonstandard language.
Until police officers are allowed to openly discuss such issues and exchange information without fear of being labeled a 'racist', each officer will have to 'reinvent the wheel' from the ground up on his or her own.
The criminals know this and they enthusiastically exploit it at every opportunity.
Have him call me. I’m starting a new publishing house in the early winter.
“Thanks...”
You’re welcome.
Interesting 'black power' twist featuring Malcolm X, etc.
It had to happen.......
Intersting. At least it gives some hints on what books to read. Most of them aren’t to my taste, but I have read “The Art of War” and “The Da Vinci Code”.
Congratulations to you, good luck and full steam ahead! :-)
I would if I could, but I'm guessing that the same PC barriers would be a problem even if it were published by a commercial house.
Sadly, any technical acknowledgement of this ghetto-babble by anyone other than tenured black academics is viewed as RACIST! and those who dare discuss it will have their careers destroyed, as evidenced today.
Thx, I’ll check it out later. My connection’s REALLY slow right now.
Sid Sodnagel sez:
"These days, it takes a cockeyed optimist to plant a time capsule."
Nice ride. The car's OK too.
Sid Sodnagel sez:
"These days, it takes a cockeyed optimist to plant a time capsule."
He's right...fortunately, there are a lot of optimists here at Free Republic :-)
Nice ride. The car's OK too.
LMAO!!
I hope that the girl in the photo was Photoshopped into the picture, as street-hopping hoopties frequently break parts off when hopping like that. It would have been a shame for her to have been impaled by a flying tie-rod.
>Every single day I see some idiot with $10K worth of rims on a car that’s worth about 500 dollars, and I’ll think of this vid.<
A cop once told me that’s a good indication that the rims are stolen.
OK, yet another article of the complete absurdity that public education has sunk to. You know what to do...
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