dear baby,
i just read some very disturbing news about the toronto district school board (i know, i know - we don't live in toronto and we probably never will. but because of the suave sophistication and malls, what happens there has a very strong impact on the rest of ontario - mainly us) - they decided to open a "black-focused" school. seriously? i don't get it... because there's a higher drop-out rate for black students? because we need to curb their desires to be gansta', and the best way to do this is by segregation? oh wait - i get it! by putting all the black kids in one school, they'll all either lose their desire to be rap superstars and turn white (even though they're not even around white students anymore...), or they'll just kill themselves off with drive-bys and crack! why, oh why would any educated black person want to be segregated? if the tdsb thinks the presence of gangs is too high now, just wait and see what'll eventually (and probably soon) go down. schools already post signs saying "no colours". there are already metal detectors in entryways. there is already and overabundance of gang violence in all our communities. why add fuel to the fire?
and let's all take a stab (no pun intended, my homies) at where the funds will be appropriated from for this venture. i mean, we all know there's not a surplus or anything like that - we live in ontario, for christ's sake! alberta, maybe, but definitely not ontario... my guess? from the people that have the hardest time defending themselves, and from the ones who need it the most - the handicapped. my brother (and your uncle) is now 25-years-old. and for the past, oh, 25-years, your family has been witness to possibly the most disgusting displays of government ignorance ever (well, probably not ever, i'm sure there's been worse, and there's always tomorrow to look forward to!). see, people like your uncle need assistance. they need people to help them - they're not just looking for hand-outs. i've seen more budget cuts, cut-backs, and funding cuts than suge knight's seen warrants... it's been sad, of course. but if funds from people who truly need them are being directly siphoned (ok, blatently for a change) to fund something those involved with don't even care about, well, it makes me sick. most of the people who should benefit from the school probably won't even care! they probably won't even go! the implications to my brother, though, will be devastating.
one good thing that could possibly come of this is there may be less upper-middle class white brats acting ghetto... that would be a definite plus in my books. but unless they contain rap city and 50cent cds to these new geared-to-colour institutions, well, the wannabe white kids will still wannabe black! you know, of all the races that have been discriminated against in the past, why the blacks? is it because they can dance? because most of them can carry a tune? or because most of them are perceived to be carrying a gun or the keys to a stolen whip with phat dubs (or something like that...)? could it be because ebonics are cool? i mean, the jews have their own language, style (yarmukles, anyone?), even their own holidays! and if you want to talk about persecution, well, i realize being hung from a tree must've sucked - a lot - but c'mon, being taken from your home and family, nearly starved to death, then, tricked into "taking a shower", only to be gassed? the kkk was awful, that's certain... but where do you think they derived their ideals? and the nazis could've kicked their white-robed asses (if they weren't technically on the same side, i guess...)! a rap about being shoveled into a huge hole with thousands of dead people would be way more powerful than, say, one about having to sling crack on the corner to buy new rims...
and i'm sure if more people than my immediate friends read this, the assumption may be made that i'm crossing the line a bit. maybe i am, but honestly, i'm tired of all this ghetto-gansta-i'm-better-than-you-because-i-had-to-hustle-to-buy-this-$400-jacket-shit! it's a joke! i mean, get an education, get a job, get a mortgage on a goddamn three-bedroom because you'll never make it big pushin' rhymes like weight... i've had to let go of my aspirations of grandeur - you all should too! a separatist attitude isn't going to change any of the ghetto-fab kid's outlook - it will only promote it. and besides, where will our kids learn to dance? you can only learn so much from rap city... and frankly, mtv doesn't even play videos anymore...