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I mean when you live in a world where we have attempted to "empower" everyone for doing what the hell they want and removed shamed from shameful behavior; OF COURSE she doesn't think what she is doing is wrong.

She has students in her video and she is cussing. Pretty clear to me there's an issue.

Her rapping isn't the issue to me, including the students is.
 
Her rapping isn't the issue to me, including the students is.

BOTH are issues. For Instance, We know teachers and professionals go to happy hour for drinks or may indulge in a little tree or recreational drugs…. But they do it in PRIVATE.

She would never drink alcohol while teaching, so why is she rapping and shooting videos?

There’s a time and a place. We all agree that teachers are underpaid. And I’m sure she isn’t even making money off rap. This is inexcusable.

Imagine a MALE teacher rapping about getting his d*** sucked while having his female students in a video.

He’d get charged with a sex crime…..

She’s talking about her genitals with male students in the video. She damn near could be arrested
 
BOTH are issues. For Instance, We know teachers and professionals go to happy hour for drinks or may indulge in a little tree or recreational drugs…. But they do it in PRIVATE.

She would never drink alcohol while teaching, so why is she rapping and shooting videos?

There’s a time and a place. We all agree that teachers are underpaid. And I’m sure she isn’t even making money off rap. This is inexcusable.

Imagine a MALE teacher rapping about getting his d*** sucked while having his female students in a video.

He’d get charged with a sex crime…..

She’s talking about her genitals with male students in the video. She damn near could be arrested

We're saying the same thing.

She can't cry for sympathy when she is involving students.
 
Hide your face :lol:

I mean, it ain’t just teachers, people get fired everyday for social media content.

For sure. My only complaints come when people try to police normal legal adult activities.

I wouldn’t call rapping and OF normal.

Now if someone had recorded her partying, with adult friends on her time, and singing along and that lost her job that would be wrong.
 
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Don’t like this.

Especially since he said this, a year ago.



The timing seems eerie. Neo digital colonialism. As the East (Russia, China etc) sets their sights upon Africa and their resources, young population and growing pop culture influence.



Kai Cennat in West Africa….and the first to talk about the internet outages (Nigeria & explicitly in Ghana last week) considering his dealings with Rumble, how Elon is tied to that…also feels more intentional

 
At some point we need to be honest with ourselves.

Them kids already knew that song before her 😂


…. What if some kids parents don’t like the song though? There’s a time and a place for everything. The teachers job is to teach. Not break new artists.

We know some kids parents allow their kids to listen to rap music. Parents are wilding out more than ever nowadays as a matter of fact. Does that make it good? Some kids aren’t mature enough to be exposed to certain stuff
 
Respectibility politics is racism. I think it's fair to want to be professional and critique professionalism with that lens. Professionalism, like health and many other things is viewed primarily through its proximity to whiteness
The lack of self awareness in this thread can be off the charts sometimes. The same folks who celebrate NASA engineers wearing dreadlocks at work are also dissing a teacher for her red hair and her artistic ventures off-work.

It's getting to the point where I won't be surprised if some people start advocating for the reinstatement of Black codes again.

Her rapping isn't the issue to me, including the students is.
I agree.

BOTH are issues.

Thoughts on teachers having FansOnly accounts and/or doing Pron?

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We're comparing rap to porn now? :lol: :smh: Where's the same energy for teachers who cover Marilyn Mason's catalog outside of work?
 
No we aren't comparing rap to porn.

He said side hustles are none of our business so I presented a different situation and asked his opinion on it.
 
Don’t like this.

Especially since he said this, a year ago.



The timing seems eerie. Neo digital colonialism. As the East (Russia, China etc) sets their sights upon Africa and their resources, young population and growing pop culture influence.



Kai Cennat in West Africa….and the first to talk about the internet outages (Nigeria & explicitly in Ghana last week) considering his dealings with Rumble, how Elon is tied to that…also feels more intentional


The only thing missing from Kai's African adventure is dropping an IG story with an oil lamp as his only light source :lol:


According to the article, four major underwater cables were impacted (I could only find three of them here):

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As far as why did the failure of these cables created such a large outage, I would say that there is very little redundancy in the communication infrastructure inside the continent: African governments decided to take advantage of cellphone technology to bypass investing in traditional telecom infrastructure (hundreds of cell towers are cheaper to install and easier to maintain for the same area coverage they'd get with thousands of miles of communication lines). These outages wouldn't be an issue if the ability to redirect internet traffic through land-based lines existed.

What I'm really curious about though, is the assertion that Houthis (who operate East of East Africa) caused these cables to malfunction...
 
No we aren't comparing rap to porn.

He said side hustles are none of our business so I presented a different situation and asked his opinion on it.
You brought up sex work as a side hustle as if it's in any way comparable to music (performing or associating to it).

Here's a similar example:

A high school principal in Canada will retain her position after a group of parents started a petition to get her fired over her love of a heavy metal rock band.

The outcry began after Sharon Burns, principal of Eden High School in St. Catharines, Ontario, posted two photos to her Instagram account dedicated to her fandom of English heavy metal band Iron Maiden—which often uses dark imagery of skeletons, grim reapers and more.

In response, they created an online petition calling for Burns to be transferred to another school. "We are deeply disturbed that the principal assigned to the school blatantly showed Satanic symbols and her allegiance to Satanic practices on her public social media platforms where all the students can see them," it said.

Another group of parents created the "We Need Mrs. Burns" counter-petition. "It is ridiculous that a couple of parents only judge her role as a principal only based on an instagram post," parents supporting the principal wrote. "She has made Eden a safe space for so many people. She spreads nothing but love and kindness."

Should the Detroit teacher have been reprimanded for involving her students? Sure, especially since her content is not "wholesome." Should she have been fired? I don't think so. I think that sentiment stems from what "respectabilities" folks associate rap music with.
 
The sexism part of 'respectibility' politics just as important too. A serious conversation or critique about black culture has to let go of the social media/ barbershop fodder

Does as much to divide as it does to distract us
 
I'm not referring his employment. I referring to his 15 minutes of Black Excellence wearing locs in his headshot. That dialog is getting killed.
 
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