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kwsherwood (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This is an interesting compilation. But to the English teacher and others out here ... please note that there's another voice, not Langston Hughes, doing the reading. And the Cab Calloway is interesting as atmpospheric video ... but it's also not 'quite' what's going on the in poem.
wojtek0000 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
my favorite LH poem. ahhh
aggal9274 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This is amazing. I will play it for my students in my English class. Hughes is a fantastic poet who used his voice to speak about the sorrows of the African Americans. Thanks for posting this!
Iamjustherek (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Yes, it should be caught up by now but remember it took integration a while too. I'm guessing that it'll slowly pop in one at a time. But right now I really wanna stop this conversation. If we really liked Langston Hughes we shouldn't be cluttering up his poem's comment box.
Rena721 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
So you think because integration came to fast in schools the curriculum didn't catch up to speed? So over time things may change? That logical thinking. But some would say it's been too long already. I mean it's been what 40 years?
Iamjustherek (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Okay, I do admit theres an imbalanced in the system. But you gotta look back on America's history. Obviously they kept a lot of other races out of schools so I think intergration came too fast for them to change it. But I think in the future there will be more cultures being taught.
Rena721 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
It's not assumptions its observations. Why is it we hardly hear about important people from other races as much as we do whites? Clearly I am not making it up. It's obvious.... there isn't an equal balance.... I am not one of the ones who blames everything on racism so to tell me something is not racism you would have to literally floor me with evidence that its not.
Iamjustherek (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
But like I was saying before... you can't just assume that someone higher up is racist. That could be dangerous. Though I love his poems, Langston Hughes just isn't as popular or as easily recognizable as Shakespeare.
Rena721 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Oh? Strange how YT does things.... Alright :)
Iamjustherek (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Nope, I didn't push anything but positive. |
