What up?! Just like to welcome you to this class here at W.F.U. I am Dr. Horatio Honeycutt. As you all know, a class in multicultural studies is required of all entering freshmen, so I¡¯m happy that you¡¯ve chosen this course to fulfill that requirement. I know that you will find this class stimulating, exciting, and truly challenging. So, welcome again! I¡¯m passing out a syllabus for your perusal. This semester you will get aquainted with Black people in the urban ghetto of this city. We will be going on a field-trip into the heart of the ¡®hood to get a firsthand look at how the language is spoken. But I must warn you, before we get to that point you must do a complete overhaul of your perception of Black people. We will have to become as ¡°black¡± as we can be as not to standout and as they say in the hood, ¡°get our asses bumrushed.¡± In other words, we don¡¯t want to draw too much attention to ourselves and cause the indigenous population to pummel our bodies into mutilated pieces of DNA. But not to worry, I¡¯ve already established communication with some of the more violent elements in the community. See?! You¡¯ve already learned your first black word, ¡°bumrush.¡± It means to suddenly bombard without warning; to attack. Put it in your vocabulary, you¡¯ll need it.¡ªKahlil Amani, Jive 101/Ebonics 1619Khalil Amani offers his take on Black America through both poetry and prose in Hip-Hop-Operations. Amani is a graduate of San Diego Mesa College and the author of Ghetto Religiosity 2000.
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This review is from: Hip- Hop-perations: Surgical Essays and Poems For The Ghetto Mind (Paperback)
The author writes from his heart, he makes no attempt to please anyone who he dislikes, he wears his heart on his sleeve. He is not too keen on Jews and honestly, as a Jew, some of his writings do offend. He claims not to dislike Jews but then he throws around the words "Jew-Boy" to describe people. His writings on the Middle East are basic and contain elementary errors. I disagree with the author on many topics, but the book is not a dull read, just one that differs from my world view.
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A JOKE/A COMPLETE CONTRADICTION,
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On the very first poem in the book they speak on the anger of oppression and dreams being carried in the arms of leader to leader but then turns around and uses FAGGOT, a degrading word to the queer community, while expressing his anger to "white Jesus". This is a complete contradiction of the poem and it displays how many people who preach the against oppression of their community or culture are constantly oppressing another community or culture. I was enjoying the poem until I got to the end. This could have been creative if that was intentional but it reads as ignorant hatred rather than a conscious statement on the oppressed becoming the oppressors. Sad.
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Black English, Jerry Springer, Khalil Amani, President For Life, White Power, Michael Jordan, Nation of Islam, Lauryn Hill, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Knights Templars, Mark Twain, New York, West Coast, Louis Farrakhan, Third World, Lil Mac, Biggie Smalls, Puff Daddy, Old Testament, Black America, Jungle Fever, Rodney King, Jermaine Dupri, Yasir Arafat, President Clinton Browse Sample Pages:
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