English: The Language of White "Oppressors"-professor: Ebonics superior to tongue of White Devils

Frontpagemagazine/Discoverthe network ^ | 8-4-05 | Jacob Laksin

[cyborg]

She has the luxury of being educated and having money. Her students, most likely poor with uneducated peers, are being given an educational death sentence. She will be lauded as a great professor but the reality is that she's dooming a generation of students to mediocrity.

[Northern Yankee]

A graudate level course?

Gee... how far are they gonna get in the market place?

The inmates are running the asylum.

Liberalism... a mental disease. - Michael Savage

[reelfoot]

"'Rap music causes moral panic in many because of its 'threat' to existing values and ideologies held by the dominant middle class,' asserts Parmar."

I don't know of anyone who has "moral panic" over rap music, just nauseated aversion because of the putrid lyrics and infantile music. I can't imagine anyone listening to such garbage for more than 15 seconds without feeling their I.Q. slipping precipitously.

[Calpernia]

Yo yo yo yo

be bumm bumm bop

be bumm bumm bop

My name is Calpernia
and I'm here to say

dontcha be doin nothing the farrakhan way

da man is a clown
da man will keep you down

he can't make his money with out your anger around

be dum dum bop
be dum dum bop

[Calpernia]

Ah, just saw your post. I thought so too.

[Calpernia]

LOL

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1456700/posts?page=64#64

[Inwoodian]

I have it on good authority that Shakespeare wore a doo-rag and grabbed his crotch the entire time he was writing Hamlet.

[Northern Yankee]

White devils...

Dare I say racist?

or is it ok these days to attack whites in racial tones?

This person should be immediately suspended.

[cyborg]

Yeah.. I'm desperately trying not to inhale my breakfast down my windpipe laughing :D

[GreenEggsNHam]

ping.... for a great Thursday chuckle....

[Tax-chick]

or is it ok these days to attack whites in racial tones?

Of course it is, in elevated circles such as academia. Has been for 15 or 20 years.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

cy- here is an ebonics dictionary for teachers and social workers.... see why I got out of that field????

EBONICS DICTIONARY HERE

[Calpernia]

Seems this is ALL she teaches?

Other Presentations

Parmar, Priya. “Rapping Against the Grain: A Hermeneutics Approach to Rap, Culture, and Education” Association of Teacher Educators. Accepted at the (ATE) 81st Annual Meeting. Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, Ohio: February 2002.

Parmar, Priya. “Rap Music: Moral Panic or Civic Virtue?” Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) 81st Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana: February 2001.

Parmar, Priya. “Breaking It Down: An Empowering Education Using Rap Music.” First Annual Dogwood Conference on Education, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia: February 2001.

Parmar, Priya. “A Critical Pedagogy on Rap Music ” Accepted at the First Annual Conference on Curriculum and Pedagogy, Austin,Texas: November 2000.

Parmar, Priya and Haroon Kharem. “Rap Music: Moral Panic or Civic Virtue?” Accepted at Journal of Curriculum Theorizing (JCT) Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Dayton, Ohio: October 2000.

Guest Lecturer/Presenter for Brooklyn College course Education 76, “Social Studies Education” on the topic of “Critical Pedagogy/Critical Media Literacy.” Brooklyn College-CUNY: October 2001.

Presenter for The Pennsylvania State University for “Introductory Field Experience” course, Curriculum & Instruction 295 on topic of “Connecting with Diverse Learners.” University Park, Pennsylvania: January 2001.

Guest Lecturer/Presenter for The Pennsylvania State University “Media Literacy In The Classroom” course, Language and Literacy Education 480, University Park, Pennsylvania: November 2000.

Presenter for The Pennsylvania State University for “Introductory Field Experience” course, Curriculum & Instruction 295 on topic of “Connecting with Diverse Learners.” University Park, Pennsylvania: January 1999.

Publications

In Press:

Parmar, Priya. 2002. “Critical Thinking and Rap Music: The Pedagogy of KRS-One,” Chapter in forthcoming text Encyclopedia of Critical Thinking (Greenwood Press) by Joe L. Kincheloe and Danny Weil (Eds.)

In Progress:

Parmar, Priya. 2002. “KRS-ONE Going Against the Grain: A Critical Study of Rap Music as a Postmodern Text”

[Calpernia]

So I shouldn't take that on the road? ^-^

[Servant of the 9]

As long as life consists only of pimping and dealing drugs, Ebonics is a perfectly good language.

SO9

[gakrak]

Ebonics = Illiterate
Just another excuse for not educating children. Amen. This guy is truly a nut case.

[OB1kNOb]

Yo Priya, whassup ho!

[cyborg]

I was watching the Venus and Serena reality show last night. Her mom pulled them out of school and home schooled them because the schools were that bad. I could never be a teacher because I'd be fighting with administration. I would never teach this ebonics stuff. This teacher sounds very enamored of rap music. I listen to some rap, mostly the stuff from the early eighties when rap was good. Otherwise, I can't listen to hardcore rap for long. It makes me nervous.

[the invisib1e hand]

this guy is a racist. is that OK?

[cyborg]

LOL It worked for William Hung.