Hi! This is my spoken word album called, “Education Emancipation.” It is comprised of four poems that explore the richness and inequality in education. I hope you enjoy!
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Hi! This is my spoken word album called, “Education Emancipation.” It is comprised of four poems that explore the richness and inequality in education. I hope you enjoy!
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March 2, 2021
The Light of Education
<p>This is the fourth and final poem of my spoken word album called, “The Light of Education.” I hope you enjoy!</p> <p>Transcript:</p> <p>Education is a light</p> <p>A light that beams upon you and me</p> <p>A light that lights the way to incomparable success, and a little bit of distress</p> <p>Nevertheless, education is a light</p> <p>A light that has the power to propel someone out of poverty and darkness with the simple tools of a pencil, a teacher, and a book</p> <p>A pencil, a teacher, and a book, seems pretty simple right?</p> <p>But why is it that some have to fight to attain the same educational rights as the rest of us?</p> <p>Namely, those who look like me</p> <p>Those who have a darker complexion and so they learn a very important lesson early on: Education is power, but you mustn’t fall into the false deception that everything is easy.</p> <p>Those words were the soundtrack to my childhood and those of many of us here today, I’m sure</p> <p>Year after year, though, as my mother repeated those words incessantly, they began to become utterly clear</p> <p>I started to see the kids in remedial classes were predominantly students of color</p> <p>And although they could do more, their light was only dimmed because somehow their future was already secure</p> <p>Somehow they were already predetermined to fail and not go to high places like Yale.</p> <p>And so they had to make their own trail and tread and trek on that trail</p> <p>But even then, the odds were stacked against them</p> <p>Because historically students of color are suspended and expelled at much higher rates as if they are just dispensable</p> <p>And even if they did all of the hard work to get there, on graduation day, they do not see many of their same peers there</p> <p>Because historically students of color graduate at lower rates</p> <p>Which means they don’t go home with a big smile on their face so their mothers can display their only sign of hope next to the box of childhood memories</p> <p>No, instead they turn to the only things they know, which according to everyone is nothing</p> <p>So they go down a very dark road that leads to incarceration, medication, depression, and utter evasion</p> <p>And they can’t help but wonder if it was all because of racial discrmication within schools</p> <p>So, yes, education is a light, with that I don’t disagree, but why is it that students who look like me suffer so very harshly?</p>
March 2, 2021
The Future of Education
<p>This is the third poem in my spoken word album called, “The Future of Education.” I hope you enjoy!</p> <p>Transcript:</p> <p>I propose the solution of emancipation within education.</p> <p>To do away with the biases and discrimination that has oppressed generations.</p> <p>Our people today are more diverse than ever before, so let us fuel the inspiration undoubtedly indebted within our population.</p> <p>Let school be the place where novel ideas prosper, and where imagination takes on its full potential</p> <p>A place that fosters creativity, vulnerability, and individuality instead of negativity and selectivity</p> <p>A place that does not lead to the path of incarceration and the excessive use of nonessential medication</p> <p>Let school be the place where the next Mark Twain learns to not contain his words, but let them flow like the rain and use them for good.</p> <p>And the place where the next Ernest Hemingway is not so earnest with his words that he uses them in a charming, unapologetic way,</p> <p>And the place where the young entrepreneur becomes the next Steve Jobs</p> <p>And while he will not invent the iPhone, truly he will have found his calling</p> <p>Malcom X said, “education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”</p> <p>Truly, these words have transported through time because although they were uttered nearly sixty years ago they still resonate with us today.</p> <p>May we all remember that education uplifts the next generation to pursue innovation and imagination.</p>
March 2, 2021
Bridges to Climb
<p>This is the second poem in my spoken word album called, “Bridges to Climb.” I hope you enjoy!</p> <p>Transcript:</p> <p>It is said that education is the most powerful weapon that can be used to change the world.</p> <p>But education is not universal, really it’s only controversial</p> <p>We live in a country where education is prized, celebrated, and precious</p> <p>Where we feel lucky to be well-educated and dedicated to the ideas of the past, present, and future</p> <p>But it was in that past, that was not so long ago, that people who had a darker complexion were separated and degraded because of the color of their skin</p> <p>But, why was it that education is still is used as a means of discrimination?</p> <p>As a means of discrimination not against the caucasian, but against the asian, latino, African, and ingigenous populations.</p> <p>Why are we still seeing the repercussions of oppression in the education system?</p> <p>We may have come a long way from Ruby Bridges, who was one of the first African-American students allowed in an all-white school, but we still have so many more bridges to climb.</p> <p>So many more barriers to topple and so many more role models to uplift.</p> <p>So let us be the generation that does not resist innovation, but rather the one that ends this woeful discrimination within education.</p>
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