[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, January 15, 2003

Quote of the Day by unsycophant

[SamAdams76]

I'm looking for the Onion link. Surely this is satire!

[Bob]

Quincy T. Troupe became California's poet laureate after writing "Take It to the Hoop, Magic Johnson."

Way to go, Magic, you caught the world's first politically-correct venereal disesase.

Of course, everybody knows that his nickname 'Magic' is an abbreviation for "My a$$ got infected, coach".

[sheik yerbouty]

Nobody needs to be taught about Sixpac Shakur.

[Caipirabob]

Hip hop is literature, a "worthy subject of study in its own right,"

Yes, and Satanism is simply misunderstood, Vampires really just "need a hug", and basically everything you ever understood is right is actually wrong and so forth.

And so we march gleefully into the inferno...

[PogySailor]

Bump for later reading.

[Adder]

The ones who came over from England are connected to the navel of England, the Queen and all that. I'm not connected to that."

"I'm into what is going on over here," he said. "The cross-fertilization of Asians and Latin-Americans and people from the Middle East and everybody coming to this country, and the Native Americans, cross-fertilizing this language with different words and sound and cadences, ways of saying things, does not make it the English language anymore. It makes it the American language. Maybe in another twenty or fifty years, we're going to need translators when we go to England. And I don't see anything wrong with that."
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Gee, maybe if he had actually graduated from any college let alone Grambling, he might be able to discern the stupidity of what he is saying. Funny how previous generations managed to speak English and not street slang and gutter talk.
I don't find rap or hiphop to be much more than singsong foolish rhyming adequate perhaps for the under 6yr old set...but gussied up with misandry, misogeny, violence, and the other trappings of the cool cool streets. In other words, it is insipidly stupid and lacks any true vision. It does not speak of great human truths, only the base instincts and the gruntings of asphalt neanderthals.
By all means, lets pander to the base element and extol the cowpie as a Great Good Thing. We don't want these kids to grow up alienated, now do we?
But just how are they supposed to know otherwise if we do not have the strength and will to teach them?

[CPOSharky]

Yeah, but they are doing it without sodas or sugary snacks.

Talk about priorities.

[martin gibson]

When students see Tupac is writing about the same things that William Black wrote about,...

uh,...that wouldn't be William Blake would it? (The illuminated 'Hey, ho, suck my oppressed d*ck')

And anyway, where's the Huge Projectile Vomiting alert this piece demands?

And anyway, I believe what most of us speak and write here in the States is known as English in 'standard American usage'.

And anyway, just in case there was anyone who needed more reason to pull their kids from public classrooms, here are the profoundly retarded Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade and Ernest Morrell.

[Tailgunner Joe]

bump

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[asformeandformyhouse]

Californians are rapidly approaching that glorious day when students can pursue doctoral studies in hip hop.

They can stand in the unemployment line with all of the 'Women's Studies' grads.

[Fraulein]

These students cannot analyze hip-hop lyrics, for example, unless they are first properly given the tools with which to analyze.

Oops, I forgot. Anything the student says, goes; and it is correct. A's for all!

[Peacerose]

This is truly horrifying! No wonder so many Californians are moving to Nevada!