Today’s Reading List

Posted on February 15, 2008 by staycspits

Another senseless act of violence
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-niu-shooting_webfeb16,0,4111841.story
Americans Relish Stupidity?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/books/14dumb.html?em&ex=1203224400&en=9813e31206335cfb&ei=5087%0A
Don’t Want to be a Sell-out?
http://www.theroot.com/id/44818

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Jumping Ship Part II; Sinking Faster Than The Titanic

Posted on February 15, 2008 by staycspits

 
Representative John Lewis (D-GA) member of the Negro Mafia has decided to jump the Clinton ship and back Barack Obama.  He is the latest in a slew of lawmakers who also double as superdelegates that have re-thought their positions and are now supporting the senator from Illinois.  Maybe it had something to do with his [...]

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Come On People

Posted on February 15, 2008 by staycspits

How many days do I have to drive past the boarded up, damn-near, almost-ready-for-re-development Ida B. Wells Housing Project gone wrong on King Drive and see my students’ grandfathers, uncles, fathers, cousins, mothers, and brothers chilling in the middle of the boulevard?  I mean how many afternoons do I have to look at their intense games [...]

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Is This What I Signed Up For?

Posted on February 15, 2008 by staycspits

Today, in class to those who were listening or to those who could hear me I said FUCK IT.  I stopped teaching, said nothing, walked around my desk and took a seat.  I stopped responding to my name.  I stopped.  Instead of walking out and never returning, I stopped.  And then I looked at them.  I [...]

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