Urban Decay
I was listening to the local Hip-Hop station last night and they were taking phone calls from anyone who wanted to say anything in regards to urban life, hip-hop, R&B, politics...etc.
Anyway, The DJ/Host took a call from a 17 year old girl.
DJ: You're on the air, what would you like to talk about this evening?
Girl: Hi, I wanted to talk about the problem with the school system in America.
DJ: Okay.
Girl: Yeah, the school system in America is set up to make kids fail. They make it so most of the kids fail.
DJ: How do they have it set-up for failure?
Girl: Cause the way they grade stuff. 69% or less is a D grade down to a F, and that means if you not gettin' a 70% grade or higher you can't graduate. They set it up like that on purpose so kids fail.
DJ: See, that's what I like to see. Urban youth concerned about black culture, so much that they call into shows like this to point out how the American school systems are structured to make kids fail. Thank you caller.
There is no punchline here. That's the actual broadcast that went out on the air to anyone listening. Misinformation and conspiracy theory bullshit from the mouths of people who clearly don't view success as something that should be worked for.
Atleast her math was good enough to determine that you need to score in the 30th percentile to receive a passing grade. I could go on about this for a while, but I think it's fairly self-explanatory as-is. The DJ didn't correct her, he didn't try to convince anyone that people aren't just handed success because they showed up somewhere. He took her call and let it exist as fact.
This isn't even a racial based problem to me, I've grown up around lazy dumb suburban white kids with the same theory. My problem is with the radio host, and the station not having the moral backbone to actually try to better the community they say they exist to help.
WTF?!?!?!?
Anyway, The DJ/Host took a call from a 17 year old girl.
DJ: You're on the air, what would you like to talk about this evening?
Girl: Hi, I wanted to talk about the problem with the school system in America.
DJ: Okay.
Girl: Yeah, the school system in America is set up to make kids fail. They make it so most of the kids fail.
DJ: How do they have it set-up for failure?
Girl: Cause the way they grade stuff. 69% or less is a D grade down to a F, and that means if you not gettin' a 70% grade or higher you can't graduate. They set it up like that on purpose so kids fail.
DJ: See, that's what I like to see. Urban youth concerned about black culture, so much that they call into shows like this to point out how the American school systems are structured to make kids fail. Thank you caller.
There is no punchline here. That's the actual broadcast that went out on the air to anyone listening. Misinformation and conspiracy theory bullshit from the mouths of people who clearly don't view success as something that should be worked for.
Atleast her math was good enough to determine that you need to score in the 30th percentile to receive a passing grade. I could go on about this for a while, but I think it's fairly self-explanatory as-is. The DJ didn't correct her, he didn't try to convince anyone that people aren't just handed success because they showed up somewhere. He took her call and let it exist as fact.
This isn't even a racial based problem to me, I've grown up around lazy dumb suburban white kids with the same theory. My problem is with the radio host, and the station not having the moral backbone to actually try to better the community they say they exist to help.
WTF?!?!?!?
posted by Charles Junk at 2:52 PM
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