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Community Song Post

Dead Prez - They Schools

Why haven't you learned anything? 

Man that school sh** a joke 

The same people who control the school system control 

The prison system, and the whole social system 

Ever since slavery, nawsayin? 

[verse 1] 

I went to school with some redneck cra***** 

Right around the time 3rd bass dropped the cactus album 

But I was readin malcolm 

I changed my name in '89 cleaning parts of my brain 

Like a baby nine 

I took a history class serious 

Front row, every day of the week, 3rd period 

fu**** with the teachers had, callin em racist 

I tried to show them cra***** some light, they couldn't face it 

I got my diploma from a school called rickers 

Full of, teenage mothers, and drug dealin nig*** 

In the hallways, the popo was always present 

Searchin through ni**** possessions 

Lookin for, dope and weapons, get your lessons 

That's why my moms kept stressin 

I tried to pay attention but they classes wasn't interestin 

They seemed to only glorify the europeans 

Claimin africans were only three-fifths a human being 

Hook: 

They schools can't teach us sh*

My people need freedom, we tryin to get all we can get 

All my high school teachers can suck my di** 

Tellin me white man lies straight bull**** (echoes) 

They schools ain't teachin us, what we need to know to survive 

(say what, say what) 

They schools don't educate, all they teach the people is lies 

You see dog, you see how quick these *******e 

Be tellin ni**** get a diploma so you can get a job 

Know what im sayin but they don't never tell you how the job 

Gonna exploit you every time knowwhatimsayin that's why I be like 

Fu** they schools! 

[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dead+prez/they+schools_20038339.html ] 

[verse 2]
School is like a 12 step brainwash camp
They make you think if you drop out you ain't got a chance
To advance in life, they try to make you pull your pants up
Students fight the teachers and get took away in handcuffs
And if that wasn't enough, then they expel y'all
Your peoples understand it but to them, you a failure
Observation and participation, my favorite teachers
When they beat us in the head with them books, it don't reach us
Whether you breakdance or rock suede addidas
Or be in the bathroom with your clique, smokin reefer
Then you know they math class ain't important 'less you addin up cash
In multiples, unemployment ain't rewardin
They may as well teach us extortion
You either get paid or locked up, the principal is like a warden
In a four year sentence, mad ni**** never finish
But that doesn't mean I couldn't be a doctor or a dentist

Hook(first part of hook twice)
'cause for real, a mind is a terrible thing to waste
And all y'all high class ni**** with y'all nose up
'cause we droppin this shit on this joint, fu** y'all
We gon speak for ourselves
Knowhatimsayin? 'cause see the schools ain't teachin us nothin
They ain't teachin us nothin but how to be slaves and hardworkers
For white people to build up they sh**
Make they businesses successful while it's exploitin us
Knowhatimsayin? and they ain't teachin us nothin related to
Solvin our own problems, knowhatimsayin?
Aint teachin us how to get crack out the ghetto
They ain't teachin us how to stop the police from murdering us
And brutalizing us, they ain't teachin us how to get our rent paid
Knowhatimsayin? they ain't teachin our families how to interact
Better with each other, knowhatimsayin? they just teachin us
How to build they sh** up, knowhatimsayin? that's why my nig**
Got a problem with this sh**, that's why niggas be droppin out that
Sh** 'cause it don't relate, you go to school the fuc*** police
Searchin you you walkin in your shit like this a military compound
Knowhatimsayin? so school don't even relate to us
Until we have some shit where we control the fu**** school system
Where we reflect how we gon solve our own problems
Them ni**** ain't gon relate to school, shit that just how it is
Knowhatimsayin? and I love education, knowhatimsayin?
But if education ain't elevatin me, then you knowhatimsayin it aint
Takin me where I need to go on some bull****, then fu** education
Knowhatimsayin? at least they sh**, matter of fact my ni***
This whole school system can suck my d***

Dead Prez's approach to the community is rather very negative, he raps about the lies they are told and useless knowledge the students are taught. Dead Prez clearly supports the idea of the community having to change because it is corrupt in a sense but not teaching and giving what they need to survive. The community he describes is violent and criminal based, full of authority figures who are racist and command them all, this place he speaks of are the very schools that him and his neighbors have to go to. He certainly believes education is good as said "and I love education, knowhatimsayin?" but he just feels him his people and the other minorities are learning what they need to.

  

Communities I Belong To:
-church
-family house
-Little Village (South Lawndale)

My Church
The church located in the heart of the neighborhood, has bells that ring so grandly at the start of mass, stretching to be heard all around. Inside its constructed elaborately with wood ans marble walls and furnishing. The church is bordered with a gold colored trim all around the walls floors and dome.  The people inside are from all similar stories, hardworking men and women, mothers, children, babies roam around, the elderly and the religious leaders. All come to worship and practice their faith. All the church-ees accept all who wish to open their heart and mind to the church. This community listens intently for an hour straight and then head to their homes, ones role is too just open up relate to the fathers words and take something back home, to the neighborhood and the world. This community belongs to me because i was born into it all were brought young to church and expected to go back setting an example and continuing this tradition.

La Casa
The house is a tall four story building, from the entrance you see neatness with flowers garden in front. As you pass two grand doors you enter the first floor, our floor. The walls of each room area painted of all different colors. All solid  walls adorned with frames of art, family and achievements.There is always a smell of food that mama cooks. Its always busy inside the house from the radio played in both Spanish and another in English, with pots clanging, books dropping, tv. playing and everything. La casa as everyone calls it is welcoming to all, guests are always treated with a meal and conversation. Everyone in the household is friendly and open they are no closed doors and communication is key. I am part of this community because I was raised her and know no other home. There's always something to look forward when coming back. Its just the most welcoming place I know and I love the house.

Little Village ... the hood
The hood as known by all the young people in this neighborhood is not always the best place to live in or walk around, but they all know it as home. Little Village thrives with culture dominantly Hispanic, it's a loud environment in the street that cuts through the hood. 26th street is a busy-town with many grocery stores, fashion stores, food and restaurants, all brighten the street with lights many businesses blast music outside to further make a walk down 26th street more lively. Outside the fun and illuminating street of culture; is the not so nice part. The outskirts of Little Village are trashed with junk, dirty and being plagued by the gangs of the hood. Two gangs cover both halves of the hood making it more into territory war and center for violence. The adults live in fear for their young ones, they all expect a new child falling into the thug life, but when we see a young bright child who looks forward to leaving and then coming back to help he is the talk between the neighbors and respected.  Everyone is expected to respect the elderly and adults. Why I am part of this community is because I was born into Little Village, you cannot exactly leave it forever you have ties with family, friends and everyone. Although you have to live alert and have a small fear I have been accustomed to the noise and news. Whenever I visit an different neighborhood and its not colorful and as lively I miss home. Silence is awkward to me and Little Village is my hood, my home.

To Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevevoeur,
I very much agree with Crevecoeur and his idea of calling America a “melting pot”. Many times have I heard the U.S. being called so and support the fact that it is; as Crevecoeur explained this nation is made up of so many nationalities and this land is the one and only that has grown to be so diverse, accepting of all and “land of great promise.”  Although his definition of an American is I feel another way to describe a hard worker with integrity, I do not know the definition of an American nor think there can be a single one due to the fact that an American can be a lot of things yet one type of “nationality”. Furthermore I say the desires of immigrants to come to America  are still the same as of the eighteenth century because the people have come to start new and aim for a greater life. 

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