One of the things that I constantly trip off of is nigga's lackadaisical, sometimes ambivalent, and at times, their explicit apathy towards education. For example, niggas will complain about how wack the NYC public schools are, but the Asians and good white folks that send their kids to Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, and Brooklyn Tech, (three of the best public high schools in the nation,) and the feeder schools that send their students to the those high schools don't seem to have those complaints. It seems that the New York City public school system is working just fine for them.
I always found it disheartening that my hometown of Richmond, CA (which is about six miles away from UC Berkeley,) that I didn't know anybody who went to Cal or that my former school district doesn't send a lot of students to Cal, Stanford, UCLA, SC, or USF. What really fucked my head up was when I learned where Columbia was at when I moved to NYC. For those of you who don't know, Columbia is in Morningside Heights, and the next neighborhood over is Harlem. Here you have a university that's ranked number one in the city and state, in the top five in the country, damn near right outside of your door, but niggas aren't taken advantage of the opportunity. The same with City College and New York University, though the thing with City College is when the Ivies stopped discriminating against Jews and Catholics the quality of the academics fell off.
Unfortunately, I've come to the conclusion that on a whole, education is something we as people don't take seriously and hold dear. We give lip service to the importance of education, but at the end of the day we're not serious and we're not trying to win. Look at Asians, those muthafuckas came over here, not being able to speak any English, two years later, they're getting straight A's, five later they're skipping a grade, ten years later they're getting full ride scholarships to the best schools in the nation. While niggas are saggin' skinny jeans, young girls are having babies at sixteen, some are selling dope and gangbanging, and are subject the ones that are trying to better themselves to intense scorn and ridicule, then have nerve enough to call the academically inclined kids, "nerds," or accuse them of being "white."
People will argue that reason by blacks lag behind in school is due to a lack of funding, lack of supplies, dilapidated buildings, and old technology. However, you can have fully funded schools, getting discounts from Staples to be fully stocked with supplies, brand new or marbled out buildings like the big library on 42nd St. and state-of-the-art technology, but if niggas still have the same mind set they have now the result will still be the same, it will just happen in nicer facilities.
I always found it disheartening that my hometown of Richmond, CA (which is about six miles away from UC Berkeley,) that I didn't know anybody who went to Cal or that my former school district doesn't send a lot of students to Cal, Stanford, UCLA, SC, or USF. What really fucked my head up was when I learned where Columbia was at when I moved to NYC. For those of you who don't know, Columbia is in Morningside Heights, and the next neighborhood over is Harlem. Here you have a university that's ranked number one in the city and state, in the top five in the country, damn near right outside of your door, but niggas aren't taken advantage of the opportunity. The same with City College and New York University, though the thing with City College is when the Ivies stopped discriminating against Jews and Catholics the quality of the academics fell off.
Unfortunately, I've come to the conclusion that on a whole, education is something we as people don't take seriously and hold dear. We give lip service to the importance of education, but at the end of the day we're not serious and we're not trying to win. Look at Asians, those muthafuckas came over here, not being able to speak any English, two years later, they're getting straight A's, five later they're skipping a grade, ten years later they're getting full ride scholarships to the best schools in the nation. While niggas are saggin' skinny jeans, young girls are having babies at sixteen, some are selling dope and gangbanging, and are subject the ones that are trying to better themselves to intense scorn and ridicule, then have nerve enough to call the academically inclined kids, "nerds," or accuse them of being "white."
People will argue that reason by blacks lag behind in school is due to a lack of funding, lack of supplies, dilapidated buildings, and old technology. However, you can have fully funded schools, getting discounts from Staples to be fully stocked with supplies, brand new or marbled out buildings like the big library on 42nd St. and state-of-the-art technology, but if niggas still have the same mind set they have now the result will still be the same, it will just happen in nicer facilities.