Posted on 03/30/2014 8:06:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
What a fool. No one's 'afraid of skittles and a hoodie' - people are afraid of a 6 foot tall black man knocking them down, getting on top of them and bashing their heads against a sidewalk.
That's the fear - NOT skittles. Is this guy stupid or what?
If he wants to see if it's 'skittles' he can give 5 bags of skittles to a group of Jewish kids - and have them walk through 20 neighborhoods. Nothing's going to happen. It's not the skittles...
If this professor would like young black men treated the same as young Jewish men, or young Asian men or young Hispanic men, or young white men then young black men need to start acting better. They need to study, make good grades, and behave in school... Things young Trayvon didn't do or care about...
But he'll never put himself to that test. The one thing I've learned about liberals is that they have no intention of dealing personally with the underdogs they champion.
You are right
In the hands of a 5 y o Pop tarts are deadly :0
and in the hands of a two year old, they are Really Messy!
the prognosis in general is rather dim if there’s not a massive awakening as to mens and womens responsibilities. very soon.
I'm shocked.....
I’d bet you some school, somewhere in the US, has a class called “African Math” or something like that. After Ebonics was deemed to be a “dialect” of English, the sky’s the limit.
It’s because black parenting is sub-standard. Don’t go blaming me.
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Agreed ... my 10 year old has a black friend who spent most of his spring break at our house... he has the usual divorce and single parent BS that he has to deal with ... we give him love and discipline at our house and he CRAVES IT ... he’s pretty lucky ,, the simple truth is that the problem comes from the family and black families have more problems ... it’s all a circle..
The author is either stupid or dishonest.
Fear of black children can make Trayvon Martin’s Skittles and a hoodie seem like an eminent threat
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The author lost me here ... actually I just skimmed the article because I’m tired of this line of thinking ...
NOTE TO AUTHOR: Trayvon was a threat because he was kicked out of his south Florida school for burglary and he was casing homes in a decent subdivision ... he was caught by George who DID NOT FOLLOW Trayvon but only observed from a distance ,, on a phone call Trayvon let his fat low-IQ GF browbeat him into going back and violently confronting George (on is phone were gangster photos of Saint Trayvon posing with a gun and such),, pounding someones head into a sidewalk is not exactly friendly behaviour.
What we need is all black schools where all the students, faculty and staff are black.
Then everything will be fine and all the students will become Rhodes scholars.
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Worked out great in Detroit.
I guess all we can do is laugh.
Keltecs apparently minimize the threat....
Travis L. Gosa
208 Africana
607.254.3342
Dr. Travis L. Gosa is Assistant Professor of Social Science at Cornell University. He holds faculty appointments in the graduate fields of Africana Studies and Education, and is affiliated with the Cornell Center for the Study of Inequality. Since 2008, he has served on the advisory board of Cornell’s Kugelberg Hip Hop Collection, the largest archive on early hip hop culture in the United States. He teaches courses on hip hop culture, educational inequality, and African American families. Dr. Gosa received his Ph.D. in Sociology from The Johns Hopkins University in 2008, along with a certificate in Social Inequality.
His most recent work has been published with peer-reviewed journals Poetics, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Teacher’s College Record, Popular Music and Society, and the Journal of American Culture. Gosa is also a contributor to several edited anthologies including Social Media: Impact & Usage (Lexington Books, 2011) and Hip-Hop(e): The Cultural Practice and Critical Pedagogy of International Hip-Hop (Peter Lang, 2012). He is an occasional blogger at hiphopedu.com.
He is currently working on two book projects: (1) “Remixing Change”: Hip Hop & Obama, A Critical Reader with Erik Nielson (University of Richmond), and (2) “The School of Hard Knocks”: Hip Hop and the Fight Against Unequal Education.
Born and raised in a small mill town in West Virginia, Travis Gosa shares his geographical roots with African-American thinkers such as Booker T. Washington, Martin Delany, Carter G. Woodson, and Henry Louis (”Skip”) Gates.
At Shepherd College, he majored in Political Science and Sociology and received his B.A in 2002. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from The Johns Hopkins University in 2008, along with a Certificate in Social Inequality. He has been an education policy analyst at both the Maryland State Department of Education and American Institutes for Research in Washington, D.C.
He is a member of the American Sociological Association, and holds memberships in four honors societies including Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Sigma Alpha, and Alpha Kappa Delta.
Before arriving at Cornell, he taught courses in sociology and education at Williams College.
Gosa’s current research examines the social and cultural worlds of African-American youth. He seeks to understand how the overlapping spheres of family, schooling, and the larger context of race intersect to place black youth at risk while creating advantages for others. In addition, he is interested in how black youth make sense of their own social worlds, particularly how they (re)construct identities and meanings that challenge and/or (re)produce their social status.
He teaches courses on race, education, hip-hop, and the African American family. When he is not doing research, writing, or teaching, Gosa enjoys listening to music, watching reality television, and cooking.
http://africana.cornell.edu/people/gosa.cfm
He also works for Fox
hey a Rhode scholar can be given to anyone, just like the Nobel peace prize...it just takes connections....
bfl
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