Number six: That goddamn credit, dead it/You think a crackhead payin’ you back, shit, forget it. For “crackhead,” think “student with a late paper.” For “credit,” think “extension.”
Anyway, I don't really know much about how useful his advice is here, seeing as how I'm not a professor and all, but the comments rock. I mean, wow. The debate rages over whether it was appropriate to have "that sort" of language on an education site, with many people talking about whether or not it's ok to say "fuck" in class. I had professors drop "the F-bomb" in class, and I was a-ok with it (as you might be able to tell), but as far as I can tell, this is a fuckin' web site, not a classroom. The dude's making a point. Anyway, the whole thing derails into some sort of screed against misogyny in hip-hop for absolutely no apparent reason, and then you get this sort of shit:
"I am stupefied, nigh aghast, at several of the dubiously contempt faculty that believe hip-hop somehow precludes education. If anything, I would imagine any culturally versed faculty member might appreciate the musical metaphor. As scholars, should you not broaden your horizons and conceptualize ideas in new, abstract, and creative ways?"It goes on in this vein for, um, quite a while. And, like, good on ya, dude, I'm totally with you, but who the fuck talks like that in a blog comment? Excuse me, I mean: Whilst I appreciate the erudite nature of the above respondent's discourse, I find its timbre to be a tad inapt for this particular medium.
Pretentious motherfucker.
Also, s/he includes this sentence:
"Ebonics, through psycholinguistic studies, has been found to contain it’s own unique language structure (see Jean Wofford or Robert Williams)."Which contains a rather pet peevish error on which I will not comment, as the laws of the internet dictate that if I do, I will shortly make a similar error, but DUDE.
Anyway, funny stuff.
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