August 31st, 2007
Kayne West, leads the Way
Kanye West and 50 Cent will release new CD’s on 9-11-07. This day’s release will represent a battle for music fan’s affections and more urgently their loyalty exhibited through purchase of a CD. Let’s face it, these guys are giants of the industry, a industry in trouble because of lagging sales. This day is important to music lovers, industry watchers and the industry itself. I am for sure buying Kayne’s jam, I still have to get Prince and Common’s CD’s.
We have witness the explosion of hip hop on our culture from “These are the breaks,” to today’s many stars. From oversized baseball caps, baggies jeans and sports jerseys, to nice suits and polo shirt’s The impact of hip hop has been sudden and now lasting.
Kayne is showing his maturity by taking on the education of our youth as a priority of his foundation. Only 49% of black youth will receive a high school diploma. If you look at 100 black kindergartners, only 10 will receive a baccalaureate degree. I hope this effort will receive the same amount of media effort as when Kayne told the truth by saying, George Bush does not care about black people.
In one of Kayne’s songs, you hear, wake up Mr. West, now Mr. West is waking us up to a problem that needs our attention. Check out the link regarding Mr. West’s foundation.
August 31st, 2007 at 5:20 pm
It is a shame that most black people do not graduate, and its a shame that that is exactly what the black community needs now, educated black people that can influence the position of black people in the world. But the government is the secondary matter in this case, i believe the problem starts from the parents and the surrounding, because its the parents obligation to make sure their children goes to school and becomes educated because that is the only way we can gain wealth in this world…not riches, but wealth. I personally don’t live in North America, so maybe i am missing something here. Anyways, i really hope all of us will come together and walk the walk in the near future! We already needed to start doing all these ages ago, but nobody is to blame and all of us is to blame. We need to build a secure future for the black community around the world, and stop doing the petty things that weighs us down! Our good deeds get noticed, but the bad ones get more attention.
By the way, this is my first post and i just want to thank our host for this site.
August 31st, 2007 at 7:08 pm
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September 1st, 2007 at 12:53 pm
There are many factors including your dialog about the parents Sadly in some cases the parents are children themselves,perhaps on drugs or in trouble with the law. The teachers do not expect much out of blacks and we live up to expectations. The biggest issue, is it is not hip to be good in school or wrost yet, it is acting whie.That is why Hip hop leading the way is a postive thing.Mr. West’s Mom had a major influence in his thinking, she is an unversity professor Thanks for the comment
September 1st, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Frightening statistics. I wish that our nation’s leaders cared as much about educating our youth as it does about “protecting Israel.” Or is it “spreading democracy?” Perhaps even “catching the people who knocked down the Twin Towers.” None of which seems likely to happen.
Meanwhile, crime and home foreclosures soar in America. Who cares? Really: who cares?
September 2nd, 2007 at 4:57 pm
kweenkong, nice to see your visit.Your question who cares? Is profound,I do not know the stats from the 60’s and 70’s but I would guess we have stepped backwords. That is why I wish Kayne well and tip my hat to his effort
September 3rd, 2007 at 2:22 pm
These are all good points and Jim this is a very interesting post. But JD I could not disagree more in the fact that we have stepped backwords.I mean there are more black CEO’s , more black children going to school then ever before. We have to understand that stats twisited and only show a portion of what is going on. Also the negative is always harp on instead of celebrating the positive. Like where is that stats that says black college graduates make more then their white counter parts?
I also disagree with Kayne’s assessment on how George Bush does not care about black people. Yes racism is alive in well in the U.S. , but I believe that these days we are in more of a class system then racism system. The divide these days is more of the haves and the have nots. Yes they showed white on tv struggling in a nice manner and they show blacks stealing we must get pass that and understand that the whole gulf was effected by Katrina. Bush and FEMA did not just help blacks but what gets loss is the fact that poor white people did not receive any assistance either. The biggest problem in the black community is we tend to point the finger in every direction to demand change instead of pointing at our selves to make things change.Like they did in the 50s,60s,and early 70s
September 3rd, 2007 at 10:10 pm
I watched a VH1 special on Kanye West and his story is pretty incredible. I didn’t realize he had done ground-breaking work on developing beats for most pop singers nowadays.
The record companies didn’t want to give him his own recording opportunity - they’d rather he just wrote beats for everyone else.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1096499,00.html
He’s an impressive young man who believed in himself and didn’t listen to others. It took me years to find the confidence in myself enough to ignore the naysayers.
There are too many people in this world - jealous people, racist people, unhappy people - who are quick to tell is what we can’t achieve. Sometimes they’re even in our own family!
Kanye West is, indeed, an American inspiration story.
September 4th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Bigrayvin, thank you for your thoughful comment.The CEO’s of today are school products of the 60’s and 70’s.Yes college enrollment for us has increased, yet It appears black boys are being left behind and these students are here and now. If the stats quoted are true,49% high school drop out rate, enrollment in college will soon drop.
We are not a priorty for Bush, but it is no longer about the whiteman it is about us.That is why I am glad to see a young hip-hopper, stepping up to help
September 4th, 2007 at 9:03 am
Doug, true, true and true, thanks for the great link, I urge all to read. Congratulations on your lost of 10 lbs, you are getting ready for the season.
JayZ is a mentor to Kanye, and is dressing in a conservative manner himself more often