Thrasher !

On Last Thursday a handful of my classmates and I went to the African American Museum and witnessed a powerful play about the 1811 Slave Revolt. The play was set around the Andry plantation where the slave revolt started. In relating this play to Sociology I noticed a few things. Something that was quoted in my Sociology notes on 8.30.11 was "Culture is a way of life". I totally agree with that quote! When talking about culture I think about religion, food, ritual, music, clothing, and language. Around the time of the slave revolt most Africans were practicing Voodoo, etc. These were religions they practiced I'm their homeland. When they were brought to the United Sates and forced to accept the Catholic Religion. When it came to their language they spoke they were forced to speak the language of slave owner. As for as food and clothes They dresses in the style most people preferred to dress in the 19 century.
Another thing I realized was some Gender Structure. Most (light skinned) women worked in the house as maids and the men worked in the field.
Overall I really enjoyed the play and saw a couple of relations between the play and sociology. I would have enjoyed that my whole class could have experienced this with me , but maybe next time.
-Buttercup/Breanna C.

1811 Slavery Volt

The field trip we atteneded about the 1811 Slavery Volt was epic. I witness a lot of different music, culture, words, etc. There were a lot of different actors. When we first arrived there were slaves standing on the sides of the walkway. They were slaves that died trying to fight away for freedom. The play showed the ending at the beginning. Almost like foreshadowing the events that lead up to the ending. The first scene was at a dinner table. Where the prince kept making the black slave do anything his white dinner guest wanted. They would make him run around the table picking their glasses up. The slave was the brother of Charles Deslondes. He was the leader of the slavery volt. They treated him with such disgust about himself. I'm sure he did get fed up because he ended up killing them all. The part I like most about the poem was the end. When Charles's mother gave her daughter , his sister the power to carry on. While the rest of the people went to the battle. She was the one that survived. The mother drew lines on them with chalk. And she made it like her passing down her torch. She taught her daughter dances and she taught her that she was powerful enough to keep their culture going even though she wouldn't be there. The part that I really didn't understand was the middle scene. Where this white woman was in this room. She wasn't able to do anything because she was ill. She couldn't have any company or anything because people might catch what she had. But her maid kept coming in risking her own health. I didn't understand what this had to do with anything though. I really like the African music thought. There were actual people beating on drums and things. And there was also a band where the people played the violin when something important was happening. I do wish that there were more of a contribute to women though. Charles and his brother were like the stars of the play. Almost like the leading men of the whole thing. The only part that had to do with woman was the daughter in the end. But the slaves from the beginning of the play died. I think there should have been a little more involvment with them in the play also. Because the white woman had a whole scene to herself. And back them I'm sure white people weren't that important to the slavery volt. They didn't have much apart in it either. but i think the play was actually worth going see. Instead of just using it as an excuse to be out of school. It was really cool.


-Kirktisha Cheneau

THEY AINT HIRING KIDS FROM MY NEIGHBORHOOD YOUG MEN OF COLOR NEGOTIATING POOR PUBLIC SCHOOL AND POOR WORK OPTIONS IN NEW YOURK CITY

ONE AFTERNOON AS I SIT ON A CROWDED SUBWAY CAR EN ROUTE TO THE CAMPUS OF EASTERN UNIVERSITY MY FIELDWORK SITE THE CHATTER OF PASSENGERS IS SUBBENLY DORWNED BY THE AMPLIFED VOICES OF THE TWO MEN. MANY PASSENGERS WHO HAD NERVOUSLY DIVERTED THER EYES TO THEIR NEWSPAPERS VISIBLY AFRID OR CAUTIONS FOR THEIR OWN SAFETY WHEN THESE YOUG MEN ENTERED TGHE TRAIN WITH RAISED VOICES ARE NEW GRINNING WITH RELIEF AND STARING IN WONDSERMENT AS THE B YOIUNG MEN SOMERSULT INTJHE MIDDLE OF A CONGERSTED SUBWAY B CAR CAR LOCKING ARTEMS AND FEET.LIOUBREIA BLACKMON> bubbaliciaes

CULTURE TRAP TALKING ABOUT YOUNG PEOPLE OF COLOR AND THEIR EDUCATION

IDEAS NEVER CONTAIN IN THEMSELVES ALL THE REASONS FOR THEIR INFLUENCE AND THEIR HISTORICAL ROLE. THOUGHT ALONE CAN NEVER PRODUCE THOSE REASONS FOR THIS INFLUENCE DERIVES NOT SIMPLY FROM WHAT THEY ARE BUT FROM WHAT THEY DO OR BETTER STILL FROM WHAT THEY GET DONE IN SOCIETY. MAURICE GODELIER THE MENTAL AND THE MATERIAL 1986.> loubreia blackmon> BUBBALICIAES

OUR SCHOOL SUCK

they aint hiring kids from my neighborhood young men of color negotiating poor public school and poor work options inn new yourk city. i think about thheir live and the lives of the young men imen iam going to interview at the colllege access initiative cai a college preparation program on the campus at eastarn university. LOUBREIA BLACKMON >BUBBLICIAES

where youth have an actual voice teenagers as empowered stakeholders in school reform the CELINAU

THE HECTOR WAS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH SCHOOL HE DID NOT ALWAYS STUDY AS HARD AS HE COULD AT THE UNGING OF A friend though he joined siates and brothas united sbu and began to work with then regulaly after school. the sbu is a youth organizing gourp that works to imporove conditions at school aroud the south and north wast bronx. > LOUBREIA BLACKMON> BUBBALICIIAES

Orleans Public Education Network Board Of Directors

the orleans puben lic education network open was collectively awed and pained by the october 14th public hearing on the state superintendents recommendation. we were pained by the deep divisions our current landscpe has produced as too many of our citizens saw one form of success coming at the expense of another group of our citys children . Loubreia blackmon< bubballiciaes.

THE VALUE OF COMMUNITY VOICE IN SHAPING THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION

ANY PUBLIC EDUATION GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE SERVES TWO PRINARY PURPOSES EDUATING STUDES AND LISTENING TO THE COMMUNITY. A SUICCESSFUL CENTER ADMINISTRATIVE BOBY WILL SERVE BOTH OF THESE GOALS. THIS DIVERS SYSTEM OF STATS AND LOCAL CHARTER AND DIRCETLY RUN SCHOOL IS PROBLEMATIC IN SEVERAL IN SEVER WAYS. > loubreia blackmon > BUBBALICIAES

NEW SCHOOL

I THINK THAT WE SHOULD DSING THE NEW SCHOOL FOR PEOPLE HOW CAN MAKE IT WORK FOR OUTHER LIKE ME HOW CAN NOT LEARNT WITH A 100 PEOPLE IN ONE CLASS A IHOPE WE GET A NEW SCHOOL LEAVE THE 7TH AND THE 8TH GRANERS HERE. >LOUBREIA BLACKMON BUBBALICIAES

MY BEST EVERY DAY LIFE

MY BEST EVERY DAY LIFE IHAVE TO LET YOU KNOW THAT IAM A TWIN AND HIS NAME IS LOUIS BLACKMON AND MY NAME IS LOUBREIA BLACKMON AND MY DAD NAME IS LOUIS BLACKMON AND HE HAND DEID WHEN II WAS 3 YEARS OLD BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE SAID BUT YOU KOWN ME AS A QUIT GIRL THAT DO NOT TOCK TO PEOPLE.IAM A GIRL THAT LOVE PEOPLE AND IAM A GIRL THAT LIKE TO HELP PEOPLE I SAY HELLOY AND HOW ARE YOU DOING TO PEOPLE I PASS. IAM DESSED FOR SUCESS EVEERY DAY ICOME TO SCHOOL IN MY UNIFORM AND FOR CHURCH THAT I FEEL JOY. I FEEL THAT WE WILL THAT WE IS GETING A SCHOOL BULLDING AND THAT OUR FOOTBALL TEAM WILL BE NUMBER OND DAY THEIR DISTRICAT AND I FEEL HAPPINESS ABOUT THAT. I HOP ONE DAY TO FOLLOW MY DREAMS AND HELP MY MOYHER OUT IAM DETERMING TO BE A BETTER STUDENT AT CHURCH BECUENTIY WON YOUTH OF THE YEAR AND PANUER OF THE YEAR AND LWAS SO HAPPY AMD THIS IS MY EVERY DAY LIFE.

Schools

New Orleans doesn't care rather these students have an education or not. As the man said in the video " We Don't Care as long as we got our money". Which is a sad case for us. 70% of our black people go to school just for the heck it. They find it enjoyable and fun but yet it isn't. Shouldn't an education be much more better for us to recieve durinig the school day than just play. On the 1st day of summer about 75 5th graders were in school, do you know how bad that sounds as 5th graders. Most of the people were black with a caucasin teacher yelling at those children for no apparent reason. Another thing is the uncertifed teachers in which call themselves teaching but they really don't. Thats another problem why children are failing and the city is gaining money for summer school. Why students complain about work being to hard and not understanding because of the teacher not doing their jobs right. As a junior in high school I feel as if people should do whats right in order to accomplish goals they have in the near future. Remember everything we learn in elementry school follows us to middle, high school and throughout college and also to our career.
Blossom( Brishawn )

My city has been Reborn!

Reborn spoke the absolute. We have a lot of children in our community who have enormouse accomplishiable dreams but do to the school system after Katrina it sometimes made this a hard task to accomplish. Citiens often did not care about the students in New Orleans and i say this because a man actually mentioned that they did not give a damn long as they were recieving their money. i find this to be a sad case, children need suport just as well as they do.
"A charter school is a pulic school that controls its own budget and cirriculum and hires it own staff."
To me most Charter schools dont learn as much as we do as students in the New Orleans Pulic school in the same peer groups.

Wow how can that many children be in summer school that is a whole entire school. after katrina things were awful one man stated if i snap than you can answer. im not some damn dog. I find that it is a racial situation, most teachers and principals at these schools are white and they treated africans so cruel and i blame this on the government. Why, because they allowed them to come to New Orleans and take over the schools of our city. After the storm charter schools hired their own teachers so therefore they were unexperiences teachers so that means that they were not getting the education that they deserve and i find that most of the students that attend charter schools such as KIPP students dont succeed in my opinon.I have the back up statement from the video that one year only 100 freshmens graduated. I feel that this is sad, our children is the future and if we cant succeed in school how can we futher our education and carreer.

<3 Bubbles/ Jen'Brica Harris

Reborn

My teacher made a very good point ! The racial make up of our school system is changing . I feel as though majority of the whites try to take things and make it their way . Majority of the cities population is 70% . Why are they changing everything ? Where are the black teachers ?

-Buttercup (Breanna C)

Reborn

Charter schools really started to become established in New Orleans after Katrina. Charter schools ate almost like a private (public) school. The video sates about 102 schools took this Charter school route. Charter schools control their budget , curriculum and hires it's own staff McDonogh 35 is one of the few Orleans Public schools still established in New Orleans. Last year about 250 of our Seniors graduated. We must be doing something right !!!

-Buttercup (Breanna C)

Reborn

Katrina
"What doesn't kill you, Makes you STRONGER!"

-Buttercup (Breanna C)

My DECA experience

Wow, as the new southern region Vice President i really enjoyed the Fall Leadership confrence with my peers. When i returned to class today and informed my classmates how things went my teacher brought to my attention that everything that i learned during my trip does involve sociology. It relates to sociology becaue they had an adiqute lesson prepared for us during opening night to teach us how to react at a dinner table during professional events. The term that he used was cultural capital. Cultural Capital was involved in the DECA trip because it futhered our awarness of the positive business attitude. Cultural Capital is teaching and appreciating the fact of having the ability of dealing with higher class citizens. During the confrence we were introduced to the attitude you should have in the marketplace, by having us work as one group of eight but then broke up up into two's and had us to work against each other on buying or selling items.


<3-Bubbles/ Jenbrica Harris

Reborn

For every 10 students that attend a New Orleans public school fewer than 6 will graduate.
-Buttercup (Breanna C)

Louisiana & the Many Faced Problem!

Many problems have taken place here in Louisiana rather it’s racism, school board problems, or even the city alone with killing and other thing. Many years ago whites thought everything should go their way. They was scared about the crime in which was taking place. Because of that they moved away in to suburbs, where crime wasn’t a problem. Another problem would have to be tuition, and also segregation. Whites believed they were to good to do anything with black, and with a such thing called tuition blacks were unable to pay.
The school board is also yet another problem here in Louisiana. It doesn’t make any sense for it to be as bad as it is. Schools here in Louisiana don’t have books to be used in class, certified teachers to teach us, and some students that doesn’t want to learn period. Dropout rates are over 70
% of students which don’t meet their goal line.
The school board and city schools are almost the same. They both have the problem with what they need to do about student dropping out and the graduation rate. Personally I would want for the graduation rate to be much higher 100% if possible for everybody. It would give not only there school, but also the state of Lousisiana a much better look.

- Brishawn (Blossom)

Your school > my school

My sociology class recently watched a video about the government and school system in New Orleans. Some focus questions that were brought up were racial change in power in city hall , the city's school board and the relationship between the school board and the city's schools. I found the previous week very interesting because I had a lot to say about it.
When thinking about the population of New Orleans it is majority Black. According to the video whites were the ones who moved to the suburbs because of crime and schools. Little do they know problems are everywhere and are hard to escape. Meanwhile the racial power in city hall has moved in the hands of the black folks. Well there is 70% of us in New Orleans.
In my last post I talked about how I would create my school system. I think it will be very successful. The city hall members in the video seemed to have somewhat of the same mind frame as myself... It's all in the COMMUNITY! Did you know that New Orleans has the highest murder rate in the nation. It takes a village to raise a child. So what is the village doing now? That's a good question to ask ourselves.
When it comes to the relationship between the school board and the city's school (in my opinion) I find it
Poor. I am a student in the city's school and I find things to be unorganized. Most of the people working for the school system seem confused and not interested. Where's the dedication? Where's the new books? Where's the smaller classrooms? Where's the money to provide our need !? We need to do better than this. I can't blame everything in the staff because sometimes it's the students too. Everyone needs to get on their "A" game and we can rise above al in excellence !

-Buttercup-____-