"Warrior kings sent to the bing and left to die
Girls confuse sex with love so they extra dry
And got birth control stuck to they necks and thighs"
-Styles P & Talib Kweli, "testify"
With a scant few days before this whole presidential brouhaha, I'd like to campaign for change. Change in the way that educations gets talked about. As a product of inner-city schools aka a child of the ghetto, myself and others know full well of the realities of urban education and its inequities. It is the reason many of my friends do the work they do in an effort to right wrongs. The old David versus Goliath process at work again. Yet, we still working on the aim of our stones. Jay Matthews briefly mentions the need to refocus the scope of how education reform is mentioned and framed. The ED in '08 movement looks promising, but then what? After all the confetti hits the floor, who is going to bust out the brooms and vacuums and get to work? I'm feeling a bit numb kind of like how all the debate talk about Iraq and Afghanistan left me wondering what about all the dead bodes piling up in inner city America.
Here's the trailer for the documentary, 2 Million Minutes:
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