EVERYONE COME READ MY VENTING SESSION AND REPLY OR DIE!

[Juss]

True Story Yall...

SOOOOOOOOO Yesterday I Attended A Poetry Competition That I Entered A Few Of My Students In... Some Of My Students Lack Motivation So I Pick Random Shyt To Enter Them In Just To Keep Em' Fresh...

Anyway At The Contest I Ran Into A Bunch Of (Self-Proclaimed) Poets And Spoken Word Guru's... You Know The Perfect Incense Burning Tight Clothes Wearing Scarf Around Their Necks Spike Lee Glasses Wearing Plaid Button Down Shirts Vegans Who Take Pictures Of Everything Put It In A Frame And Call Themselves Deep Because They Seem To Be The Only Open Minded People On Earth...

Well My Purpose For Being There Was To Support My Students And Show Them That What They Do Matters To Me... THAT WAS MY ONLY PURPOSE FOR BEING THERE... BUT I ENDED UP BEING DRAGGED INTO A BIG HEATED DEBATE... Bastards :no:

So This Is How It Started...

Some Dude With Dreads Jumped On Stage Immediately After My Last Student Finished Her Poem... He Wasn't A Judge And He Wasn't Apart Of The Program But He Felt His Opinion Was So Important That He Would Take Time Out Of Our Lives To Make Us Listen To What He Had To Say...

This Dude Made A Comment Directed Towards Me Because Of The Poems My Students Read... He Felt That I Brainwashed My Students Into Choosing The Topics That They Wrote About...

I Had Seven Students There Three Wrote About Obama (Of Course) Two Wrote About Crime In New Orleans (Another Common Theme For High School Students) And Two Did A Joint Poem They Wrote A Chronological Poem Starting From Slave Days To Jan. 20th 09 (It Was Very Clever)

Well The Dude Said That Teachers Are Whats Wrong With Society Today And Bla Bla Bla... Then He Talked About BET... And Then He Talked About Obama And He Talked And Talked And Talked...

So I Stopped Listening Until He Asked Me A Question... These Are His Exact Words...

"Hey Teach!! Since You Supposedly Prepare Our Youth Tell Me How Can We Fix The Problems When All We Have To Look Up To Is Shyt Like BET, TV ONE, Barack Obama, Univision (His Crew Was All Latino/a) and Al Sharpton?!?!?"

So When He Asked Me That All The Uppity Vegans In The Place Started Laughing And They All Looked At Me For A Response... I Wasn't Going To Say Anything But As A Teacher You Can't Look Bad In Front Of Your Students Or They'll Lose Faith In You As Their Teacher (As J_Da_Que He'll Tell You The Same)

So I Walked Up To The Stage And He Shoved The Mic In My Chest (I Didn't Jump Stupid Because My Students Were There) So I Took The Mic And Looked At Him And Said...

"When You Look In The Mirror All You See Is You... You Don't See BET, TVONE, Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson, or Al Sharpton. Only You Can Change Yourself And Lead By Example. Stop Looking Up To Television Stations As The Answer. Stop Looking Up To Individuals Who Don't Know You Personally As The Answer. Only You Can Save You. And I'll Close My Comment With My Favorite Hypocritical Oxymoron "Idiots Generalize"

So I Said That And Offered The Mic Back And He Waved Me Off As If To Say "That Sounds Like Some Shyt A Closed Minded Person Would Say" He Sat Down Back In The Audience And Said Loudly "I GIVE UP!!!!" Then This White Dude Jumped Up And Said "I'm Not Sending My Kids To Your School" Everyon Laughed Again... And One Of The Latinos In The Original Flunkies Crew Jumped Up And Said "I Can Tell You Don't Read Much I'll Email You A Link To Oprahs Book Club" Everyone Laughed Even Harder

My Students Were Looking At Me Confused And I Was Also Kind Of Confused Because I Truly Didn't Know What I Said Wrong... So I Posed A Question To Everyone In There And The Question Was "Who's Going To Save Your Soul?"

Everyone Got Quiet... They Paused For Like 20 Seconds And Then Started Laughing Again... So I Came To The Conclusion That Everyone In There Was High :nod:

So I Turned To The Judge And Said Can We Continue With The Program And They Did... My Students Who Did The Joint Poem Won... One Of My Crime In New Orleans Students Came In Third... I Was Proud...

BUT ANYWAY... Does The Shyt I Said Sound Like A Close Minded Statement???

If It Does Let Me Know And I'll Work On My Close Mindedness :nod:

[Mike82]

No. What you said was very straight forward and true. Those people are idiots. What you said wasn't close minded. Do you really need some people on the internet to tell you that though?

[smeezed_82]

If the minds calling yours closed stare into their tv's and consider the images knowledge... then yes. it is CLOSE MINDED TO THEM...

but in REAL life. It's reality.

"the sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason"

[Q-ROCK]

I don't understand what his problem was, what would his approach be in teaching kids these days, what would he do differently, why do he feel he's so different. Man, keep doing what your doing if he had a answer he would have enplaned them to you. If your not part of the solution your part of the problem.

[rell]

Tell your boy to get off his ass and BE a good example for the kids instead of complainin about the ones we have....which are apparently TV stations...lol

[JackDaniels]

I heard mofo's were losing their mind in the poetry sector of N.O. but DAYUM!!

Your response was valid but them bastids was probably high and wouldn't listen to a damn thing. Yo Juss, what school you teaching at in N.O.?? I was thinking about coming back home after finishing my masta's degree and teaching.

[55]

If im understanding wrong let me know, but it seems to me u went in into a room of people who only use one side of their brain and not realizing there are people that use booth sides as a whole...thats how i took it... IMO its only close minded to those who arent open minded....

[Rambo]

you did the right thing dude... dude was a retard.. and the other people that laughed are even stupider.

i still cant believe you go through all the time to change the colors and italicize and everything lol..

[Juss]

Yea I Have No Life ^^^^ :lol:

I Teach At One Of The New Charters That Opened After Katrina :nod:
But I Didn't Really Need Any Validation From Yall I Just Wanted Yall To Know That Stupidity Comes In Many Forms...

I Ain't The Smartest Brother On Earth But Dam If What I Said Was Ignorant Then I'm Just An Ignorant Human Being :lol:

[collegedropout]

Idiots never cease to amaze me.
I'm just mad that he said "...(y)ou supposedly prepare our youth..."
:no:

Nice touch on how you put his words in pink, though. :lol:

[VitaminJ]

HES A WHITE GUY IN A BLACK GUYS BODY. HES SWITCHIN SIDES SO HE LIKE TO PUT US DOWN IN PUBLIC PLACES. WE ARE BLACK SO WE MUST WATCH BET.

[Mike82]

WE ARE BLACK SO WE MUST WATCH BET.

Yet, BET is owned by the same people that own MTV.

[VitaminJ]

I WATCH VH1 :laugh:

[coyoteblack]

No statement is closed minded but only closed minded individuals who deem themselves self-important....... Juss your response was right to the point and something that they personally couldn't answer so they laughed it off.... which shows the depth of their awareness around them (for they are the sun and be damn the rest..)

[Razor_Reigns]

Maybe you would've done better standing up there and yellin somethin that involved killin whitey :laugh:

[Juss]

Nice touch on how you put his words in pink, though. :lol:


Yes I Chose Light Blue At First But Then I Decided That Pink Was More Offensive

And You're Right Min, I Should Have Gone Up There And Gave Them A "Problematic" Response...

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[Razor_Reigns]

^^^ yeah our Resident Angry Nigg@ would've been proud :lol:

[toa]

Nothing more annoying than self-righteous people who love to criticize but have no answers.