Fanya Daniels:Spectacle

I am kind of upset because I wrote on here last night and somehow it did not go through...I apologize

I think this chapter was very interesting especially in the Black Spectacle section. Me being apart of this culture it hits home for me. For someone to say that because we are traditionally oral and embodied we are not literate is what catches me off guard. I like how they brought up rap music also. We do not only sit around and listen to rap, we have jazz, the blues, R&B, gospel, poetry, and it all helps us communicates our feelings about our lives whether it is a struggle or happiness. I don't understand what people expect when this is what our culture is based on because it's the way America made us. There was a time where my ancestors could not read or write. We had to form different ways to get the message across we had a struggle of trying to be free. Rappers like Tupac I think is a positive influence and wanted to be heard...it may be vulgar or something your just not ready to hear but the message is there and its powerful and I think thats why many people don't want us in the public sphere.


Words of Wisdom
By Tupac Shakur
http://www.alleyezonme.com/lyrics/2pac/0022/Words_of_Wisdom.html

Killing us one by one
In one way or another
America will find a way to eliminate the problem
One by one
The problem is
the troubles in the black youth of the ghettos
And one by one
we are being wiped off the face of this earth
At an extremly alarming rate
And even more alarming is the fact
that we are not fighting back
Brothers, sistas, niggas
When I say niggas it is not the nigga we are grown to fear
It is not the nigga we say as if it has no meaning
But to me
It means Never Ignorant Getting Goals Acomplished, nigga
Niggas what are we going to do
Walk blind into a line or fight
Fight and die if we must, die like niggas

This is for the masses the lower classes
The ones you left out, jobs were givin', better livin'
But we were kept out
Made to feel inferior, but we're the superior
Break the chains in our brains that made us fear yah
Pledge a legiance to a flag that neglects us
Honour a man that that refuse to respect us
Emmancipation, proclamation, Please!
Nigga just said that to save the nation
These are lies that we all accepted
Say no to drugs but the governments' sceptic
Running through our community, killing the unity
The war on drugs is a war on you and me
And yet they say this is the Home of The Free
But if you ask me its all about hyprocracy
The constitution, Yo, it don't apply to me
Lady Liberty still the bitch lied to me
Steady strong nobody's gonna like what I pumpin'
But its wrong to keeping someone from learning something
So get up, its time to start nation building
I'm fed up, we gotta start teaching children
That they can be all that they wanna to be
There's much more to life than just poverty

This is defaintly ahhh words of wisdom
AMERIKA, AMERIKA, AMERIKKKA
I charge you with the crime of rape, murder, and assault
For suppressing and punishing my people
I charge you with robery for robbing me of my history
I charge you with false imprisonment for keeping me
Trapped in the projects
And the jury finds you guilty on all accounts
And you are to serve the consequences for your evil schemes
Prosecutor do you have any more evidience

Words of Wisdom
Based apon the strength of a nation
Conquer the enemy with education
Protect thy self, reach with what you wanna do
Know thy self, teach what we been through
On with the knowledge of the place, then
No one will ever oppress this race again
No Malcolm X in my history text
Why is that?
Cause he tried to educate and liberate all blacks
Why is Martin Luther King in my book each week?
He told blacks, if they get smacked, turn the other cheek
I don't get it, so many questions went through my mind
I get sweated, They act as if asking questions is a crime
But forget it, one day I'm gonna prove them wrong
Now every brother had to smother on the welfare line
The american dream, though it seems it attainable
They're pulling your sleeve, don't believe
Cause it will strangle yah
Pulling the life of your brain, I can't explain
Beg as you can obtain from which you came
Swear that your mother is living in equality
Forgeting your brother that's living her apology
Thought they had us beat when they took our kids
But the battle ain't over till the black man sings
Words of Wisdom
But the battle ain't over till the black man sings
Words of Wisdom

NIGHTMARE thats what I am
America's nightmare
I am what you made me
The hate and the evil that you gave me
I shine of a reminder of what you have done to my people
for Four hundred plus years
You should be scared
You should be running
You should be trying to silence me
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But you can not escape fate
Well it is my turn to come
Just as you rose you will fall
By my hands
Amerika, You reap what you sow
2pacalypse America's Nightmare
Ice Cube and Da Lench Mob America's Nightmare
Above the Law America's Nightmare
Paris America's Nightmare
Public Enemy America's Nightmare
Krs-One America's Nightmare
Mutulu Shakur America's Nightmare
Geronimo Pratt America's Nightmare
Assada Shakur America's Nightmare

I like when he names people and he says America's Nightmare due to the fact that these are people you need to watch out for they are smart intellectual people who will fight back with their pens, paper, books, and their words. This is what American has been scared of a Black intellectual male or female...I tell you what you can put my name on the list!!