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Dumbed Down and Dumber Still
The American Prowler ^
| Wednesday, January 15, 2003
| By George Neumayr
Posted on 01/15/2003 2:12:18 AM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
I'm looking for the Onion link. Surely this is satire!
To: JohnHuang2
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".
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posted on
01/15/2003 2:34:13 AM PST
by
Bob
To: JohnHuang2
Nobody needs to be taught about Sixpac Shakur.
To: JohnHuang2
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...
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posted on
01/15/2003 2:41:58 AM PST
by
Caipirabob
(These tag lines are gonna get me in big trouble soon, I just know it!)
To: JohnHuang2
Bump for later reading.
Comment #7 Removed by Moderator
To: SamAdams76
Wait till they try to get a job, maybe yo yo yo fries to go will become the marketing trend at McDonald's now that burger king has ties to muslim terrorists.
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posted on
01/15/2003 4:00:33 AM PST
by
RWG
To: JohnHuang2
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?
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posted on
01/15/2003 5:20:57 AM PST
by
Adder
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posted on
01/15/2003 5:47:57 AM PST
by
Mo1
(Join the DC Chapter at the Patriots Rally III on 1/18/03)
To: JohnHuang2
Yeah, but they are doing it without sodas or sugary snacks.
Talk about priorities.
To: JohnHuang2
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.
To: EdReform; homeschool mama; 2Jedismom; Ohioan; Irish Queen; Stand Watch Listen; Saundra Duffy; ...
bump
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posted on
01/15/2003 2:11:37 PM PST
by
Tailgunner Joe
(God Armeth The Patriot)
To: Tailgunner Joe
Communist Goals - 1963 Congressional Record17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.The children of the sixties are many of the California teachers of today. And they are not much more mature than their students. The teachers say that their students only "relate" to youth culture. But the real reason they use it as a "teaching tool" is that they never left it.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."Hip hop is literature, a "worthy subject of study in its own right," say Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade and Ernest Morrell, who teach an English course at an Oakland high school. Student Lisa Moore nods in agreement. "As far as Shakespeare goes, we can't relate to that. We can relate to what's going on now," she said to the Times.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV."Blaze up, gettin' with hos through my pager"
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over."This is just one instance in how teachers should be engaging their students to see how history is not just something of the past but it's something they create."
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.California parents find themselves in the strange position of having to tell teachers not to listen to rap.
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posted on
01/16/2003 8:00:05 AM PST
by
Remedy
To: Remedy
Remedy:
The Remedy:
http://www.accsedu.org/
Classical education is starting to gain in popularity. There are even a few public school charters that use a classical curriculum. It's certainly popular with homeschoolers.
Guess who is going to win?
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posted on
01/16/2003 8:19:43 AM PST
by
ladylib
To: ladylib
BUMP & THANKS!
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posted on
01/16/2003 8:35:35 AM PST
by
Remedy
To: martin gibson
uh,...that wouldn't be William Blake would it? No, William Black, the guy who wrote:
Tyger, tyger, burning bright
Grabbed my Glock, shot out his lights...
What immortal hand or eye
Capped yo' ass in that drive-by?
I think he was from England or something... ;-)
To: JohnHuang2
Bump
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posted on
01/16/2003 8:59:29 AM PST
by
Fiddlstix
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To: Remedy
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posted on
01/16/2003 9:01:11 AM PST
by
ladylib
To: Adder
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? From the gooberment's point of view,it may be dangerous for these kids to actually learn how to think. They are already being educated at the level the gooberment needs them to be educated at in order for them to become employees of the "North American Union".
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