Wednesday, August 26, 2009

 

First Cyber Assignment

Good afternoon students!

Today we will familiarize ourselves with the class blog, get personal email addresses (if we don't already have one) and create a personal blog to store classwork this semester. This will help when you get ready to create your portfolio.

August 29, 2009 is the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the largest disaster to hit our nation this century. People are still spread out throughout the Diaspora, many in the San Francisco Bay Area. Each student will get a poem, copied from a book I helped develop called: Words Upon the Waters: A Poetic Response to Hurricane Katrina. Visit http://wordsuponthewaters.blogspot.com to see photos from our benefit last year for hurricane survivors in New Orleans and Mississippi.

Post your responses to the poem you received here. Watch the Kanye West video on YouTube. Interview: Song: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/34143/george_bush_dont_like_black_people_music_video/

If you have headphones, use them.

Here are the lyrics:
George Bush Don't Like Black People

By Legendary K.O.

I ain't saying he's a goldigger,

but he ain't messing with no broke niggas
I ain't saying he a goldigger,

but he ain't messing with no broke niggas

George Bush don't like black people
George Bush don't like black people
George Bush don't like black people
George Bush don't like black people

Hurricane came through, fucked us up round here
Government acting like it's bad luck down here
All I know is that you better bring some trucks round here
Wonder why I got my middle finger up round here

People lives on the line you declining to help
Since you taking so much time we surviving ourself
Just me and my pets, and my kids, and my spouse, trapped
In my own house looking for a way out (pause)

Five days in this motherfucking attic
Can't use the cellphone I keep getting static
Dying 'cause they lying instead of telling us the truth
Other day the helicopters got my neighbors off the roof (off the roof)

Screwed 'cause they say they coming back for us too
That was three days ago, I don't see no rescue
See a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do
Since God made the path that I'm trying to walk through

Swam to the store, tryin' to look for food
Corner store's kinda flooded so I broke my way through
I got what I could but before I got through
News say the police shot a black man trying to loot

(Who!?) Don't like black people
George Bush don't like black people
George Bush don't like black people
George Bush don't like 'em

I ain't saying he a goldigger,

but he ain't fucking with no broke niggas
I ain't saying he a goldigger,

but he ain't checking for no broke niggas

George Bush don't like black people
George Bush don't like black people
George Bush don't like black people
George Bush don't like black people

Five damn days, five long days
And at the end of the fifth he walking in like "Hey!"
Chilling on his vacation sitting patiently
Them black folks gotta hope, gotta wait and see

If FEMA really comes through in an emergency
But nobody seem to have a sense of urgency
Now the mayor's been reduced to crying
I guess Bush said, "Nigga's been used to dying!"

He said, "I know it looks bad, just have to wait"
Forgetting folks who too broke to evacuate
Niggas starving and they dying of thirst
I bet he had to go and check on them refineries first

Making a killing off the price of gas
He would have been up in Conneticut twice as fast
After all that we've been through nothing's changed
You can call Red Cross but the fact remains that...

George Bush ain't a goldigger,

but he ain't fucking with no broke niggas
George Bush ain't a goldigger,

but he ain't fucking with no broke niggas


Come down Bush, c'mon come down
Come down Bush, c'mon come down
Come down Bush, c'mon come down
Come down Bush, c'mon come down

George Bush ain't a goldigger (Hmmn)
George Bush don't like black people
George Bush don't like black people
George Bush don't like black people


Come down George, c'mon come down
Come down George, c'mon come down
Come down George, c'mon come down
Come down George, c'mon come down

(Fade out)

From: http://www.nathanielturner.com/lyricstogeorgebushdoesntcare.htm

Comments:
201A 1:00pm-2:50pm
My name is natalie hopkins. I really enjoy this poem. the author seems to be angry. she express her feelings with rthym keeps you going makes you want to keep readinig. she uses similies in metaphors to get her point out there. I wolud definitley incourage more people to read this peice.
 
Hi Professor Sabir,
I’m from your English 201a 1:00 to 3:00pm class. I read the poem “Daddy Stubborn” by Anna de Leon. I understood the poem a lot and felt where she was coming from because I had grandparents who didn’t want to leave there house and stayed on top of their roof until a man in a boat found them. To me it’s nothing to do with being stubborn it’s more of if that’s all you know then why would you leave. I enjoyed the poem a lot and I think her dad had a mutual feeling that my great-grand parents had.
Renelle Cullors
English 201 a 1:00-3:00
 
Denice Satchell
English 201A 1-3 P.M.
Angel in the Doorway by: Kim McMillon
This poem was very deep. As I read it I could recall the images from the news of families stuck on top of roof tops or bodies floating in the disgusting water after hurricane Katrina hit. You could feel the pain that this poet was trying to convey, however at the same time she did a very good at creating a balance between feeling that pain and creating a sense of comfort with lines like “I’m told my heart is a doorway with an angel very near”. In a way she is telling you to keep the faith even in your worst moments and things will get better. When I first read the poem I did not like it, it was after the second or third time that it grew on me.
 
Julianne English 201B 1-2:50

Hi Sabir

The Poem by Afi Nkhume called My World. I understand what the person said about the world. They love the world how they like the trees and wind. But they don't understand why can't the world have peace in the world.

I understand what they are saying, it so hard to have peace in the world.
 
K. Adams 201-A
What I took away was that she wanted to leave her mother behind and try to live her life, and not be poor anymore.
It seems like the poet was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Feeling quilty, should she leave her mother in this awful situation or should she fea without leaving a trace.
 
Rhonda Washington
English 201A
Mw 1-2:50p
August 26,2009


I had a wonderful summer this year. I took the time to vacation and do alot of fun things with my kids. I knew that starting school this Fall was going to be a challenge for me. I have not been to school in fifteen years. I am excited about the new information I will be learning in your class. I am looking forward to growing and expanded my skills of the english lanuage.I was saden to hear about your injury you had this summer. But glad to hear you did not break any bones. I am glad your summer was nice as well. I look forward to learning from you this semester.
 
Tomasita Ponce
English 201A
1-2:50p.m.


Im glad we have Obama as a president. The moment i seen in the news that he was officially our united states of america president, for the first time, i said to myself, I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! I'm sure if Obama was president when the hurricane katrina hit the orleans, the situation would of been a different story. Unfortunatately Bush was our president, not the best since he did nothing to help. I agree with all Kanye West and all those who hate George W. Bush for his actions, or actually because he did nothing but made our country disappointed!
 
Karen Folgers "MOM"
What I took away was that she wanted to leave her mother behind try to live her life, and not be poor anymore.
It seems like the poet was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Feeling quilty, should she leave her mother in this awful situation or should she flea without leaving a trace. She also feels that she wasn't the cause of her mother living in a poor community.
K.Adams 201-A 1-2:50pm M-W
 
Faize Sari 201A 1-2:50pm

Hello Professor Sabir,

I had a great summer and of course it wasn't long enough. I hope your arm is getting better.
I feel the great positive energy you posses. I now you are going to teach use so much, so I'm going to thank you inadvance.
 
Kelley Yuen
English201B
1-250pm MW

Away the Work of Poets
By Kim Shuck

This poem is really sad. It talks about the problems that Hurricane Katrina victims are facing. There are many songs out there, singing to the missing families and friends. Their neighborhoods are gone, their belongings, and some people are lost in contact with their families, friends or even a pet. Everywhere you walk will be difficult to look at; the dirt, the bacteria, and the bodies are found are really hard to believe how unfair this is.
 
The author of the poem RANT is Karla Bundage 201A 1:00pm-2:50pm
My name is natalie hopkins. I really enjoy this poem. the author seems to be angry. she express her feelings with rthym keeps you going makes you want to keep readinig. she uses similies in metaphors to get her point out there. I wolud definitley incourage more people to read this peice.

1:48 PM
 
English 201A
Kyshon Meyers
1:00-2:50
8/26/09

I'm one to think that hurricane Katrina was not just Mother Nature alone. A category five hurricane shouldn't destroy a city in the manner that Katrina did. For example, in Cuba during hurricane season, it’s not uncommon for a storm the size of Katrina to pound the shores of the small island, with no casualties. Cuba is a small island that can prevent a category five hurricane with a death rate on average of under three people every two storms. If this is so, then why America, one of the strongest and (credit wise) one of the wealthiest nations on the face of the planet prevent a storm like Katrina from taking the lives of many many people and damaging property damage well in to the billions? Some say it was a government plot to wipe the black community out of New Orleans and using Katrina as a scapegoat, the president knowingly allowed many lives to be lost by not calling on the National Guard to protect the lives of those lost in Katrina. The city of New Orleans was one of the blackest populated cities in the country at the time. This brings up many conspiracy theories and even more shots at corruption in the high offices of our nation. In my opinion, the above poem in regards to Katrina is a vent or a release of frustration that many people in the superdome, the storm, and the city itself felt knowing that their government had the power to save them but didn't. The government had everything that a nation would need to help its people out of a watery death. This brings up the feeling that was expressed in the poem "Gorge Bush don't care about black people."
 
Jimmy Sengthavilay
English 201A
1:00pm - 2:50pm
“As American As Iraq” By Gene Hwang
The devastating event that happen in New Orleans really change the view of a little state in America looking like Baghdad and Mississippi as Afghanistan, for them to compare a state to a country fill with violence and war is a big issue because if we begin to look away it would be hidden and tuck away in yesterday past. To picture what is happening in Abu Ghraib is like picturing what is happening in the Superdome in New Orleans, which really put the American government in front page view of the world. The American governments are always mourning to help other but not the citizen of America. So what is America without the middle class people, in my point of view the United State government should worry more about the people in America from lower class to middle class, because these are the people that make up more than half of the population in America. Most black people that are devastated after the hurricane Katrina event are just sitting there with marine with M-16 ready to shoot; the American government should be there to help not to enforce more law in a devastating event. They should be sending food and water but there sending guns and bullet, from the last time I heard human are not able to eat metal. Why did the governor of Louisiana sent people who knew how to kill then people who know how to help. The ironic part of all of this is that this all happen in America and not only that but to the citizen of America. Black people were getting treated like how Iraqi was getting treating during the war, concealed behind dirty lies of the government.
 
Mary Perez
201A
1pm-2:50pm
The poem that I read is called Smokey Miracle, by Wanda Sabir. Apparently, the poem was written for her father who is now gone. She describes how his death was in the beginning of the poem and really uses strong text to describe. “I dreamt of daddy last night and today I remember his slow death. Diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, black skin”. The last two words “black skin” I believe she is talking about the race who is most targeted to the illnesses she talked about. I hate to say I really enjoyed this poem, for the fact that its not a very pleasant topic but it helps me relate to my own personal events.
 
Jonathan Kim
ENGL 201A 1pm-2:50pm


Mom by Karen Folger Jacobs
---------------------------

I read this poem and picked it out not knowing it was about hurricane Katrina at first I just picked it out to relate to something more.
I respect my Mom and love her with all my heart but I do feel in ways on situations where I don't know what to do and want to just avoid problems not discuss certain issues and move forword, there are things I want to tell my Mom like leave me alone or be quite but that's my Mom is that crossing the line? And there are some days where I feel like she should have no buisness with getting involved in like who I am seeing or going out with etc. "Where do my boundaries end and hers begin?"
Does my Mom have the right to take my car away when she doesn't pay for gas or even my car.
 
Faize Sari 201A MW 1-2:50pm

The poem was a harsh reality of what the people who survived faced. It made me sad and also angry! The White house and its administration under Bush was appalling and inhuman. I idea of people in life and death situation being ignored is unreal.
 
Rhonda Washington
English 201A
MW 1-2;50PM
August 26, 2009

Good Afternoon Professor Sabir,

I think that kanye west lyrics were maybe a little volger, But needed to be said. I think that very few people had the courage to tell george bush that he was handling the situation poorly. Our goverment can not treat Afro-americans and lower class people as though they don't matter. Never in history had a natural disaster occuried and the goverment took as long to aide suffering americans. I was angried very deeply , this is something we should never forget.
 
Rhonda Washington
English 201A
MW 1-2;50PM
August 26, 2009

Good Afternoon Professor Sabir,

I think that kanye west lyrics were maybe a little volger, But needed to be said. I think that very few people had the courage to tell george bush that he was handling the situation poorly. Our goverment can not treat Afro-americans and lower class people as though they don't matter. Never in history had a natural disaster occuried and the goverment took as long to aide suffering americans. I was angried very deeply , this is something we should never forget.
 
Margaret Coleman Eng 201A

This poem "Tempest" is about the ocean. A brief but detailed summary of how an ocean behaves, the beauty if possesses and also the ability to create damaging effects.

Author-devorah major

The first thing I like to comment on is how the author referred to the ocean as "she". The author creates this picture of “Tempest” as a calm, soothing and nurturing woman. Then as a spiteful, pitiless, lonely woman. I've looked at the ocean and was caught up in my own thoughts that I never saw the ocean as a living, breathing, thinking individual. The author has broken "Tempest" down in detail from her powerful, unpredictable movements, to her transformation of beautiful colors, to her ability to feel. My favorite part of the poem is the beginning; "Does the ocean understand the land she smooths and softens, puts a value on the minerals she extracts, from the shells she has ground, from bones she has chewed, from wood she has sucked, from iron she has pounded".

I instantly related this poem to a woman’s’ life. I related it to her journey into womanhood.
 
Yolanda Brewer
201A 1:00pm-2:50pm

My poem was "Graveyards for the Living Dead”. The poem was showing a lot of helplessness. I saw a lot pain. It seems like the author felt helpless for himself and for the people around him. He obviously wanted to reach out to others but could not help anyone else because he could not help himself. It painted a picture of the heartache, fear, shame, vulnerability and unpredictability of the situation.
Here are a few lines that sum up most of the feelings;” Stuck up here on this roof...alone...a lonely witness...""...As the waters keep rising and there is nothing I can do but keep watching & hoping while I am force fed the horrible drama of this nightmare...""...Will I ever get out of this thing alive????? Or will the next body seen floating be mine?????
 
ENG. 210A 8:00 to 8:50 AM
My nmae is Anthony I respect what he is saying cause katrina is about 3 years old and there are still people suffering, businesses still shut down, homes still evacuated,. I think personally Kanye West is wronge about Geroge Bush not liking black people I think he dont care about the people who are living in poverty at all. If Katrina hit somewhere in the mountains where people who are a little bit more privliged than others I really think things would have happen way differntly. And I think that is just plain out wronge.
 
Casey Henneman
English 1A 8:00-8:50 a.m.

Hey prof,
I really enjoyed these lyrics that Kanye West put together. I'm sure there were more people than just Bush that could have done something more but I get the jist of it. I find this poem very informative because I didn't know much in detail about huricane Katrina but now I know that more could have occurred when they were trying to evacuate the people out of those states.
 
English 201A
8-850
Adriana Jones
i feel like hurricane katrina was a very sad time for everyone not just the people who were in it and the people who had family there like it shows that the government does not care about black people i was watching a tv show about katrina and it showed how those people suffered it was really hot there and people were suffering. i also was watching another tv show and it showed that stuff was still not correct in new orleans.
 
201A 8:00am-9:00pm

The song was truthful. It expressed the tragedy not only of the hurricane itself, but the some of the sentiments and facts behind it. I was Iraq during the time Katrina happened. I remember we were huddled together around a tv watching the despair. Only until I came back home, after my term, did I actually met some people who were directly affected by the event.
 
Mai Bee Lor
English 1A: 8-8:50 am
George Bush Don't Like Black People by Legendary K.O

When reading this I felt sadness, frustration, and anger. I believe the author felt some what the same too. It's sad to look at the reality that during this tragedy George Bush didn't have any urgency to help and clean up the destruction. I would only cry and hope, but we all know that sometimes that isn't enough. Bush was our president and he should have been there. You can't leave no one behind.
 
ENG. 210A 8:00 to 8:50 AM
My name is Anthony I respect what he is saying cause katrina is about 3 years old and there are still people suffering, businesses still shut down, homes still evacuated,. I think personally Kanye West is wronge about Geroge Bush not liking black people I think he dont care about the people who are living in poverty at all. If Katrina hit somewhere in the mountains where people who are a little bit more privliged than others I really think things would have happen way differntly. And I think that is just plain out wronge.
 
Sha'Kita English201B 8-850am

I really like this song it seems to be true. Bush took his sweet time getting to New Orleans and didnt seem like he cared about anyone elses problems except his own. How self-fish I genuinely believe he doesnt like black people if it would have been any where else in the world where the majority was mostly white he wouldnt have taken that long to get there.
 
grant thomas
english 201A
8:00-8:50

Hurricane Katrina was a bad way to go out. I just want to give kanye west his thanks for showing the people he cared about them and what happen. As i was reading he was pointing out fact's that other people couldn't see, while as understand the big picture. He states the line "George Bush dont like black people", i felt he meant by that is he didnt give the people in New Orleans a heads up about the hurricane.
 
Arely Razo Eng.201B 8-8:50

I felt that what he said was true about how Bush did not do anything when hurricane Katrina happened. I liked this poem because it was very truthful. Many people did suffer a lot because they were not able to get any help. I did not feel that it was right that an innocent person was killed just because he was trying to survive. It really did seem as if all that Bush cared about was helping the people that are wealthy because it's as if he felt that losing another person would do nothing. They should not have told the people that they were going to send someone to help them when in fact all they were going to do was make them wait and have to do everything by themselves. I can understand why many people do not like Bush. Instead of havng a little airplane to save some people they should have had a bigger one so that they could take out more people at a time. This was not the only time that Bush sat back and did nothing he did the same thing when the September 11 attack happened. Instead of waiting he should have done something right away because it was an emergency. I don't feel that Bush was a good president and it is good that Obama is now the new president of the United States. He will make a difference in the world.
 
My name is Cynthia Phan, from the 8:00 to 9:00 am English 201A class.
As I was reading this poem it brought me back in recalling what the victims of hurricane Katrina had to go through. Even though i was not there to see what was going on, but just by seeing the images on television I felt really sad that there was people from the lower class family who was suffering and the government wasn't trying fast enough to help get them to safety. It was like they didn't care like the Arthur mentioned in his poem. Many areas were flooded making it harder for the people to survive, but there was many other recues tactic that could have been take into action.
Knowing that other people beside the government cares and wants to help makes a big difference because victims like that would need as help as they get to get function well.
 
Elizabeth Garcia
Eng 201A 8-8:50

Profesor Sabir,

While I was listening and reading the song lyrics of George Bush Don't like Black People By Kanye West I can tell that he was talking for many people and that it wasn't just his own opinion. He was going by facts ansd he was expressing in his lyrics how many people who were affected by the Hurricane Katrina. It was because how George Bush did not act like he cared and wanted to help so that is why he named the song "George Bush Don't Like Black People". Especially if he blamed them for stealing when getting food for survival in a broken up store. If other people were doing it why when a black person did it they were blamed for crime. Is it fair? They don't think so.
 
Matthew Fella young-201A-8-8:50

I think Kane West really expressed not only how he feels about George Bush, but also expressed how most African-Americans feel. How selfish he was and probably still is but by also saying that he didn’t do nothing to help the city of New Orleans when Katrina hit. I like how he put himself in the victims place at that current time by saying, “Five days in this motherfucking attic
Can't use the cell phone I keep getting static
Dying 'cause they lying instead of telling us the truth
Other day the helicopters got my neighbors off the roof (off the roof)

Screwed 'cause they say they coming back for us too
That was three days ago, I don't see no rescue
See a man's got to do what a man's got to do
Since God made the path that I'm trying to walk through

Swam to the store, trying' to look for food
Corner store's kind of flooded so I broke my way through
I got what I could but before I got through
News say the police shot a black man trying to loot.”

He really makes the point that George Bush is selfish and don’t care about not only black people, but America and that shows by the gas prices going up while he doesn’t need to worry about it because has in his private jet to go anywhere he wants to go, and by the going to war and by going there for no reason.
 
Kevin Munson
english 201a
8:00-8:50

This was a very interesting piece. There are still people who havent made it back home. Bush is supposed to be the president of the united states and help make the world better in anyway he can. When this disaster occured he didnt do enough if anthing to help. People had to fend for themselves because he didnt take action like he should have. This song leads me to believe that the majority of the people in need were black. For bush not helping, kanye states that Bush doesnt like black people.
 
Arely Razo Eng. 201B 8-8:50

I am responding to Renelle Cullors in Eng. 201A 1-3. It must have been very sad for her grandparents to have seen the place that they live in be destroyed by water. She really can relate to what the author wrote. I also enjoyed the poem. I think that many people felt the same as her grand parents. I know that i would feel the sameway.
 
Rikkia Sledge
Eng. 201A
8-8:50 am

Hello Professor Sabir,
I like this song for the main fact that the author is honestly speaking the truth, not just the fact that George Bush doesn't like black people, but the fact that the government waited days after the hurricane hit instead of taking action as soon as possible to me that was very screwed up! I remember watching television and the Red Cross came on and they were talking about this little boy who was about 6 or 7 years old and he had led his brothers and sisters to safety. That was so courageous to me; I couldn't believe what I heard. I actually had friends that lived in New Orleans at that time and they had to move out to California it was so devastating to hear their stories.
 
Elizabeth Garcia
Eng 201A 8-8:50


Responding to:
Arely Razo Eng.201B 8-8:50

I liked how you expressed your opinion about "George bush Don't like Black People" I agree with everything you said.
 
Tonny Mai
Eng 201A 8:00-8:50am

About this song, I agree on what is being said. If it wasn't black folks out there stuck on top of there own roofs and attic, he would of jump right into action and done something about it. Yet he didn't, it took him almost a week before he even visit the destruction of hurracane katrina. By that time there were still people stuck with no food or anything. As of today there are still thousands of people still suffering from there lost and love ones. It was all because George Bush not stepping into action as the president of the United States. George Bush does not care about black people... Enough said.
 
Responding to Casey Henneman comment.
I agree with the comemnt that was made how it wasn't just the government that didn't care. I know that there are people out there who cares and some who don't.
Cynthia Phan,
English 201 A
8:00 to 8:50am
 
Commenting on Elizabeth Garcia
Eng 201A 8-8:50

Profesor Sabir,

While I was listening and reading the song lyrics of George Bush Don't like Black People By Kanye West I can tell that he was talking for many people and that it wasn't just his own opinion. He was going by facts ansd he was expressing in his lyrics how many people who were affected by the Hurricane Katrina. It was because how George Bush did not act like he cared and wanted to help so that is why he named the song "George Bush Don't Like Black People". Especially if he blamed them for stealing when getting food for survival in a broken up store. If other people were doing it why when a black person did it they were blamed for crime. Is it fair? They don't think so.

-I agree with what you said that it is how most black people feel about Bush. It is unfair that he didn't rush to help them and were blamed and punished for taking food needed to survive. that is not cool.

Mai Bee Lor
 
Hi Professor Sabir, I'm from your English class 201a 8:00-8:50. I read the song lyrics, George Bush Don't Like Black People, by Kanye, and it sound that the singer of this song is angry at George Bush for not helping the black people after Hurrican Karina. I feel that Bush is a stubborn man who just care for himself and the things he value. In this song, the singer explain how selfish Bush is for not helping the people in need for help. Many people died from Hurrican Katrina, because Bush didn't take the priority of bringng more rescue boats to save the black folks. I feel the same with singer that Bush is a selfish man, who cares more about his refineries then the people. I enjoy this song. It express alot of feeling toward the hurrican katrina and George Bush.

Raymond Mai
English 201a 8:00-8:50
 
Demel Bullock one of the student in your 8 to 8:50 English 201a class wrote...
Good day to you, I feel that the author has every right to feel the way displayed. I can hear and feel what her feeling may have been writing this being my dad grew up in the magnolia projects,and half my family still lived in New Orleans when Katrina came to visit. All though they evacuated later to return to damaged homes and great loses they still had breath to move forward. I haven't been there since the Mardi Gras parade in 07 but even then, almost two years had past and the whole 9th ward was still a big vacant lot almost. What going on? I think it was good for the author to be able to put forth some humor on such a subject.
 
Kholood Gaid
English 201 1-2:50pm
Professor Sabir

It was soo sad about the hurricane katrina. When i read the poem and listened to it, i diffently agreed and felt why the author of the poem wrote this song and how she hate President Bush. I mean i already hated him for what he has done to iraq and how he made many innocent children suffer and lost their families. I was not very suprised what president Bush has done to the united states, leaving the people of the hurricane katrina without any help. It was soo shame on every citizen of the united states, because we have not done anything to help them or to make president bush to do something, we didnt united to ONE voice to say something about all the people who are gone in the hurricane katrina and suffered. I think Presdent Bush only loved himself, but i hope we can make a change and have new hope for this new president.I was soo happy when President Obama was selected for president, i felt he will do something good for people, he will understand them more than ANY president of the united states.
 
Lornna Taylor
8/29/2009
8-8:50am

The lyrics in this song describing The Hurrine Katrina Catastrophe are described nothing more as Truthful. Everything that Kanye West says in this song, actually happened. The lyrics in this song are passion filled. Kanye putting himself in the shoes of thousands of people, trapped in horrendous conditions, all because of their race and Economic status. The victims of Hurricane Katrina were left for days in conditions that I personally could have never imagined. While the President of the United States, sis around golfing, enjoying his day, his Americans are dying because of his unkempt concern. I agree with this song, and what Kanye West is standing up for.
 
Mai Bee Lor
English 201A: 8-8:50 am
George Bush Don't Like Black People by Legendary K.O

When reading this I felt sadness, frustration, and anger. I believe the author felt some what the same too. It's sad to look at the reality that during this tragedy George Bush didn't have any urgency to help and clean up the destruction. I would only cry and hope, but we all know that sometimes that isn't enough. Bush was our president and he should have been there. You can't leave no one behind.
 
Commenting on Elizabeth Garcia
Eng 201A 8-8:50

Profesor Sabir,

While I was listening and reading the song lyrics of George Bush Don't like Black People By Kanye West I can tell that he was talking for many people and that it wasn't just his own opinion. He was going by facts ansd he was expressing in his lyrics how many people who were affected by the Hurricane Katrina. It was because how George Bush did not act like he cared and wanted to help so that is why he named the song "George Bush Don't Like Black People". Especially if he blamed them for stealing when getting food for survival in a broken up store. If other people were doing it why when a black person did it they were blamed for crime. Is it fair? They don't think so.

-I agree with what you said that it is how most black people feel about Bush. It is unfair that he didn't rush to help them and were blamed and punished for taking food needed to survive. that is not cool.

Mai Bee Lor. English 201A 8-8:50 am
 
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