tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279827.post8563427777891471672..comments2023-06-16T05:32:41.802-04:00Comments on Dream Refuge: Come On People - Bill Cosby & Alvin F. PoussaintWilliam Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447935744970908817noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279827.post-44024497405358968242007-10-15T18:15:00.000-04:002007-10-15T18:15:00.000-04:00As I write, "Soul Sista" is groovin....I am unfort...As I write, "Soul Sista" is groovin....<BR/><BR/>I am unfortunately renting a cheap room in a slumlord house until my new place is ready. Every spare space is being rented out so the "living room" is turly a space for this older gentleman, Julius.<BR/><BR/>He's a cool guy, if you don't mind being blasted awake at 4:30 every weekday and 6 a.m. every weekend due to his lack of hearing and his need to hear the news repeated several times until his Wall Street Journal arrives.<BR/><BR/>As a teacher, I operate on minimal sleep, but this has been a form of psychcological warfare.<BR/><BR/>However, a believer of serendipity and in things operating on more otherworldly, metaphysical levels--far beyond the greatest of us mere mortals, I heard about Cornel West & BMWMB's CD early this past Saturday when I would have been dead to the world.<BR/><BR/>I immediately rolled over and jotted down Never Forget and bought the CD later that afternoon; a gift to me and those I teach.<BR/>I have been trying to find an angle for a club to engage our young scholars at Manhattan Hunter Science High School for a few weeks, Internet safety, Environmental or Political Awareness to Journalism. However, after listening to your Spoken Word album "Still Here", "The N-Word", "911", my men, Prince and Andre 3000 on their "Dear Mr. Man," and Chronomentrophobia" to mention a few, I came up with "The Cultural Revolution Club: Analyzing Hip-Hop Culutre, Past and Present".<BR/><BR/>I printed up your interview on MP3's website, happend to see Dr. Alvin Poussaint and Bill Cosby on Russett's Meet the Press yesterday with their new book Come On People and want to expose my scholars to clean (and not-so-clean)and socially important texts from all those mentioned in that article along with Immortal Technique, Aesop Rock, Silvio Rodriguez' "Mi Unicornio Azul", Ozomatli, Cafe Tacuba, protest, folk, country and dozens more to move this generation from complacency to activism as Drs. Poussaint and Cosby and your album's first cut "Bushonomics" advocates.<BR/><BR/>I plan to include CRASH, BABLE(have never viewed this latter one, but I've heard it's similar to CRASH) and other resources that we can use as jumping off points for greater analysis of the problems, the accomplishments and the paths to peaceful solutions for a better tomorrow.<BR/><BR/>From one Black Man Who Means Business,<BR/>Thank you Drs. West, Poussaint and Cosby!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com