Monday, November 02, 2009

 
Today in the afternoon class we watched a video on Marc Bamuthi Joseph about an earlier dance piece called Scourge. We then completed Bastards of the Party. Students worked in small groups and alone to develop a summary of the film.

I suggested, based on a comment and observation Rhonda made about the director, to look at the film as a journey and discuss how the director's perspective might have shifted over the course of the film from one idea or position to another. What was his initial premise and how and why did it shift?

Please post here. Revise the post. See my revision for an example.

We then returned to Section 8, Parallel Structure and looked at poetry from The Rose that Grew from Concrete that illustrates this.

Homework is to continue developing thesis sentences (earlier class from themes fromBastard(4 sentences).


Afternoon class, prepare to write Essay Exam 3 in class on Wednesday, Nov. 4.

Comments:
Renelle Cullors
Professor Sabir
English 201a
2 November 2009

“Bastards of the Party”
I caught the movie from the end but from what I saw today it was the people he interviewed. A man in the hospital who I guess had just got shot, talking about how you shouldn’t name your kid after you. Meaning your nick name if you are in a gang. Give a child his own name because it’s like passing down you old problems in the street. But to me the people only want to find a way out after they get shot or something bad happen to them. But in the film they also shows when one of the twin boys died and it show Cle reaction when he was a blood and after. Saying when he did bang that he would’ve killed the killer but after he says that if it was now he wouldn’t have killed him. At the end of the movie it showed a bunch of people that banged that either died of got life in prison, which they had a little boy who looked about 14 who had life. I think that was sad from the simple fact he wasn’t able to grow up and most people that bang don’t know no better.
 
Rhonda Washington
Kholood Gaid
English 201A MW 1-2:50p

Thoughts on Bastards of the Party:
We think that Cle Sloan was trying to portray that gangs are an end all means of self-destruction. It’s an illusion for death. Cle believes that labeling our children with street names can result in conflicts of street violence and death style. Cle wants our communities to stop gang banging and find self worth within ourselves. He has come to understand that the gang lifestyle is useless and does not fulfill the richness of the black community. We think that Cle also wants to show black youth that starting a gang or being a ganster is only leading you to death. The infinite numbers of death of black people is an example how worthless of being in a group names like crips, blood, or any other gang members.
 
Margaret Coleman
English 201A
1:00-2:50pm
I believe the author originally set out to find out why were there gang bangers and why was he one of them. From his journey of trying to figure this out he learned more than he thought he would. How gang banging connected back to the slavery days, to how the Black Panther Party vs. the US Government was embodied in this problem. After researching, reading and speaking with different knowledgeable individuals, along with his own experiences in gang violence, he was able to come to a humbling demeanor.
I believe the author wanted people to realize that that lifestyle was not necessary, you have two choices living that way, jail or death. He wanted to relay the information to the youth about how the gang violence mentality originated in hopes that it will shed some light on how to abort the mentality.
 
Vonreesha Jackson
Professor Sabir
English 201B
02 November, 2009

I think with this documentary the director wanted us to know what is going on in his neighborhood. In the documentary he shows how we are loosing our youth to the streets daily and how they dieing daily. We are loosing our Black men to the prisons so there for the mothers are left to raise the children alone. What I have gotten out this documentary is that we need to come together and help out youth and young black males. We need to show them that there is something better than the streets. Teach them the out come of what being in a gang would be. The documentary was very informative and should be shown to the up and coming youth today. I think them seeing this would help to deter them away from any gang activities or gang’s period.
 
Julianne Bauer
Professor Sabir
English 201B
2 November 2009

Bastards of the Party:

I think the director wanted us to know that if your thinking about being in a Gang or in a Gang. You have to think of the possibilties of being shot and killed or if you get shot then you will end up in being in a wheelchair, or being sent to jail for life. In the movie Cle Sloan who was being interviewed he was say that when he was a gang then if somebody goes and kills another person from another gang and he didn’t tell him, then there is a chance that somebody from another gang will probably shoot him. Gangs shouldn’t be around because there are useless.
 
Kathleen Adams
Professor Sabir
English 201 A/B
November 2, 2009

Bastards of the Party

In this documentary, the director Cle “Bone” Sloan explains how people in their own neighborhoods were turning against each other. He desired change, although he was once part of the problem. Self destruction and killings were on the rise and there were no answers. The gangs corrupted neighborhood youths: by them not attending school, and wanting to be in gangs. One little boy speaks,..."you gotta die sooner or later."

The authority figures did not make it any better, yet they made big profits off the gangs. There had been no order in most gangs as far as doing the right thing. After the Panthers dissipated, he speaks on how they went from “brother” to “self” to in the end “kill that nigga.”

In the end it was art that saved his life. He believes that if you give your child something positive to do or believe in they will do better in choices and life.
 
What I liked about the films conclusion was director, Cle “Bones” Sloan’s statement: "It's easy to kill a n--. It's hard to kill a brother," then went on to show how this dehumanizing of foes made murder okay in the black neighborhood.

I also liked the way the director took a question and answered it with a film, its title from a line in a book he discussed--City of Quartz, which looks at the history of black Los Angeles, its migration from the south, the factory closures and the impact of the loss of jobs on the communities left behind. Police forces made up of Southern recruits and the rise of resistance in the form of the Black Panther Party was also explored. The director was deconstructing the gang culture he embraced and trying to associate it with a larger social development and the chaos, much US government supported and fostered. The LA the BPP addressed 43 years ago, was the same LA the director faced, the only difference was the amount of support black people were lending to their own annihilation.
 
Julianne Bauer
Professor Sabir
English 201B
2 November 2009

Bastards of the Party:
In the movie Cle Sloan who was being interviewed he was say that when he was a gang then if somebody goes and kills another person from another gang and he didn’t tell him, then there is a chance that somebody from another gang will probably shoot him. Sloan was talking about how gangs shouldn’t be around because there are useless.
 
Revise your posts and repost. Do not remove the original posts. In a brief narrative, talk about what your noticed when you reviewed the writing and what you changed and why.
 
Revised post:

What I liked about the film's (added an apostrophe -'s) conclusion was director, Cle “Bones” Sloan’s statement: "It's easy to kill a n--. It's hard to kill a brother," then went on to show how this dehumanizing of foes made murder okay in the black neighborhood.

I also liked the way the director took a question and answered it with a film, its title from a line in a book he discussed--City of Quartz, which looks at the history of black Los Angeles, its migration from the south, the factory closures and the impact of the loss of jobs on the communities left behind. Police forces made up of Southern recruits and the rise of resistance in the form of the Black Panther Party was also explored. The director was deconstructing the gang culture he embraced and trying to associate it with a larger social development and the chaos, much US government supported and fostered. The LA the BPP addressed 43 years ago, was the same LA the director faced, the only difference was the amount of support black people were lending to their own annihilation.

My process? I put the piece in a Word Doc to spell check and then reposted it.

What I liked about the film’s conclusion was director, Sle “Bones” Sloan’s statement: "It's easy to kill a n--. It's hard to kill a brother," then went on to show how this dehumanizing of foes made murder okay in the black neighborhood.

I also liked the way the director took a question and answered it with a film, its title from a line in a book he discussed--City of Quartz, which looks at the history of black Los Angeles, its migration from the south, the factory closures and the impact of the loss of jobs on the communities left behind. Police forces made up of Southern recruits and the rise of resistance in the form of the Black Panther Party was also explored. The director was deconstructing the gang culture he embraced and trying to associate it with a larger social development and the chaos, much US government supported and fostered. The LA the BPP addressed 43 years ago, was the same LA the director faced, the only difference was the amount of support black people were lending to their own annihilation.
 
Kathleen Adams
Professor Sabir
English 201 A/B
November 2, 2009

Cle “Bone” Sloan, explains, how the gangs corrupted neighborhoods, and their youths: not attending school. Self-destruction and killings were on the rise and he became puzzled. The authority figures did not make it any better, yet they made big profits off the gangs. There had been no order in most gangs, to do the right thing.

He questioned what made people in the same neighborhoods turn against each other. He desired change, although he was once part of the problem. After the Panthers dissipated, Cle speaks on how people went from saying… “Brother” Then it was all about “self” to committing genocide “kill that nigga.”
In the end, art saved his life. He believes that if you give children a good mentor, something positive to do or believe in they will make better choices in their lives that will last a lifetime.




My process was to read everything repeatedly, and take out some of the wordiness. It sounds more together and in order would you agree?
 
Rhonda Washington Kholood Gaid

English 201A MW 1-2:50p

Thoughts on Bastards of the Party:
We think that Cle Sloan was trying to portray that gangs are an end all means of self-destruction. It’s an illusion for death. Cle believes that labeling our children with street names can result in conflicts of street violence and death style. Cle wants our communities to stop gang banging and find self worth within ourselves. He has come to understand that the gang lifestyle is useless and does not fulfill the richness of the black community. We think that Cle also wants to show black youth that starting a gang or being a ganster is only leading you to death. The infinite numbers of death of black people is an example how worthless of being in a group names like crips, blood, or any other gang members.
 
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