Michelle Obama criticizes black youth for worship of Rappers & Sport Stars

[The Nigerian]

He made the right decision.

Getting your brains bashed into mush for a worthless Com Arts degree or eat off of YouTube views? (Dude was over 50k last time I checked)

Athletes wish they were rappers, anyway.

 

[El Bombi]

He has a point. If you want to discuss the importance of education, talking to a bunch of college graduates isn't going to fix anything. Do you think those college students are gonna say "Mrs Obama, how am I supposed to get an decent education when we barely have enough books in our class, don't have heat during the winter, and our teachers literally told us they're only here to get a paycheck?" That was my public school experience when I was a youngin. What she would need to do is take the conversation to the place that needs it most, and listen to the reason why the dropout rates are so high. If you watch documentaries like Waiting for Superman, you'll see it's not because kids want to be rappers and ball players. It's because a lot of the time we have shytty schools, creating shytty neighborhoods, which feed these kids straight to the pen.

It's like going to a church and preaching on the importance on believing in God. You're preaching to the choir.

Cosign

Like the old quote say, "All she doing is preaching to the choir".

 

[Chill]

Because they are the First Family' of the United States and not just the first family of black folks?

Damn. Didn't think that post through at all, gonna have to take this L.

 

[MikelArteta]

shes correct, im happy that rap is fading away

most black youths of today cant even name 5 black folks from the civil rights era yet can name 5 rappers, only know emmit till cuz weezy mentioned it in a song

 

[Easy-E]

That doesn't seem like something you'd tell college grads, but, it's only a few snippets.

If anything; they (Barack and Michelle) can take blame for elevating the Beyonces (entertainer) and Jay-Zs (rapper/baller) of the world and not giving the young youths the only side.

I'm grown; I know they're more.

in todays episode of shyt on my race we have the 1st Lady, Michelle Obama... Stay tuned.

I think we're way to quick to jump on that, anytime the Obamas speak on the black community.

For one; we are in need of progress and a lot of it ain't pretty. It's also; only a small snippet of what she said.

I'm sure her speech was much longer than that.

 

[Danie84]

How dare the First Lady to utter such words

 

[El Bombi]

The Obamas are talking this shytt about the black community, but are they doing anything to help. If you're not going to help, then STFU. It remind me of that house nikkaz mentality in the work place, when a niggga would shytt on his black coworker to gain favor from the white management. The black community is in a worse state now than when Bush was in office.

He is starting to be no worse than Clarence Thomas.

 

[Malik]

shes correct, im happy that rap is fading away

most black youths of today cant even name 5 black folks from the civil rights era yet can name 5 rappers, only know emmit till cuz weezy mentioned it in a song

MLK, Malcolm X, Fannie Lou Hamer, Robert Parish Moses, Stokley Carmichael, Asa Phillip Randolph.

Off the dome

 

[Ohnoits]

Well...she isn't wrong.

 

[El Bombi]

Michelle Obama is on her Nancy Reagan shytt.

 

[How Sway?]

even though she's beating a dead horse she's not wrong

 

[karim]

"Today, instead of walking miles every day to school, they’re sitting on couches for hours playing video games, watching TV," she said of black youth. "Instead of dreaming of being a teacher or a lawyer or a business leader, they’re fantasizing about being a baller or a rapper."

 

[↓R↑LYB]

THIS is what I'm talking about, dikkhead.

I don't appreciate you calling me a dikk head breh. I have feelings, and you've come very close to hurting them. I expect an apology ASAP

 

[mastermind]

The more that I think about it, the more the speech doesn't seem to make sense to me.

For starters her audience is exactly the opposite of what she is preaching about. The article says that she spoke to Bowie State graduates...but why? I mean it's pretty obvious that her audience isn't the best example of what she's referring to.

Why didn't she take herself a few miles down to those crumpled, roach infested hoods of DC and speak to the people who needed to hear it?

More wasted time, more wasted money...

Another day in the black community

as a person who was there, the speech wasnt entirely for the graduates. There were people in the audience who needed to hear that message.

And to the graduates, um go back and help out in the community to help change that path. Give your community positive influences, etc.

 

[PrinceDeeDer]

Yet this bytch rubs shoulders with high school dropouts and ex drug dealers.

well damn u hit it on the nail there she bein a hypocrite

Seems like they had no problem with people idolizing these celebrities when it had an impact on them being elected into office

exactly, its not like white people don't idolize mothafukkas like elvis, ke$ha, brittney spears, paris hilton the list goes on........