>No but it would be if
>you or your teacher said
>"Nigger Sheep"
>Sheep/People...what's the correlation? I would
>ask the teacher if she
>thought Black people were sheep
>or animals. The whole
>subject she brought up is
>suspect.

Thanks for the advice.

>I keep hearing and reading about
>white folks comparing Black people
>to animals. TV Guide
>compared Tiger Woods to the
>race horse "Secretariat" and other
>people to thoroughbreds (athletes).

Interesting... i've seen this too

>Once a older white lady
>admired my painting of Black/African
>dancers and right after told
>me she liked to collect
>monkeys. Come on!




>Black people are often at the
>bottom of the social totem
>pole. Some Black people
>are against the white supremacist
>system and are against the
>mainstream, standard social groups.
>Other than that there is
>not correlation between black sheep
>and Black people.

Yeah I think she was probably trying to use it as an example of a black=bad term.

>What's derogatory about going against the
>grain if that means freedom
>or peace from mental or
>social oppression/conditioning?

I guess using black to mean bad (in describing anything, like night and day) isn't considered deragatory by black people judging by the responses I've got, so no, there is nothing deragatory about going against the grain.

>I agree that your teacher doesn't
>know about Black people, our
>heritage or culture. The
>sad thing is that there
>are many so-called educators out
>there that are misinformed or
>ignorant. They're just maintaining
>the system that perpetuates racism
>whether they are conscious of
>it or not.

Being in a suburban school I've seen many educators who fit this description. It's pretty dissapointing.

>The only way to combat racism
>is to be aware and
>that means exposing oneself to
>another group's way of life
>or studying about them in
>books written by people who
>were/are involved in improving the
>system or destroying it (racism)
>for Black people.

I'm in the midst of reading many of the type of books you mentioned and already finished some (such as Malcolm X, manchild in the promised land, race matters, black like me, roots, etc.)

any other book suggestions?


Be Out (c) Mr. Lif



A conversation between two girls in
my science class about the
definitions of hip hop and rap...

Girl 1: Rap is like just talking.

Girl 2: Yeah! It’s like telling stories
and stuff. So what’s hip hop?

Girl 1: Hip hop is like those crazy
people from the south like mystikal
who yell “GET ON THA FLO” and
“SHAKE IT FAST WATCH YO SELF”.
Those guys are scary. It’s like jeez
why are they so mad?

Girl 2: Yeah I know.

In discman: Illmatic