"The Miseducation of Hip-Hop Discrimination in Education"

Hip-Hop is a form of music and lyrics that many can relate it.  Hip-Hop is about gang fights, drive by shooting, and people getting stabbed.  How you choice to dress if your own right of expression.  You should never judge a book by it covers, many have said.  Jason Hinmon was a college student that transferred to the University of Delaware from Morehouse College in Atlanta.  Hinmon was portrayed as a hoodlum, because he wore hoodies and had dread locks in his hair.  Hinmon states" I came to class and my professors didn't know how to deal with me". "I could barely get them to meet with me during office hours". (Evelyn 559)  Sadly, this happens to many people, because they are misunderstood.  Hinmon has the right to dress the way he choices.  Hip Hop artist do wear their clothes hanging off their bottom and hoodies over their head, but older generations only see that.  They do not know the education behind the artist. David Banner, also known as Mr. Mississippi, has a bachelor's degree in business from Southern University. He also pursued a master's in education from the University of Maryland.Sean 'Puffy' Combs, better known as Puff Daddy or P. Diddy, attended Howard University and Plies played football for two years at Miami University before transferring to the University of Central Florida, that is just to name a few.  Dressing properly for a job interview would be a good judgment call and is more professional.  It is instructors role to teach students and reach them at their level, not treat them like they are stupid or that they are trouble makers, because they do not dress the way the instructors feel is appropriate.  Dr. Thomas Earl Midgette is 50 years old and is from an older generation.  The world has evolved and he needs to also.  Higher Education has nothing to do with the way you dress.  So should all smart people wear slacks, ties, and shirts with pocket protectors?  Dr Thomas Midgette believes that hip-hop is the cause for students dressing like hoochie mamas and hoodlum.  Dr. Thomas Midgette has a right to his opinion, but it is just, an opinion.  

Gray-Rosendale, L. (2008) Pop Perspectives. Readings in Critique Contemporary Culture. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

"The Bias of Language, The Bias of Pictures"

In this essay Postman and Powers describe the difference in pictures, motion pictures, and language. They put into perspective that news anchors on television sometimes put there on twist on the news. No two anchors describe the same event with the same words, so as viewers we may not ever get the true story of what is happening around us.  Postman and Powers explain "that pictures, especially single pictures speak only in particularities." (postman and power 485).  "Unlike words and sentences, a picture does not present to us an idea or concept about the world, except as we use language itself to convert the image to idea." (postman and power 485). A motion pictures can express emotion and meaning in the picture.  You can understand what is going on at the motion.  I motion picture with sound explains where the event is happening and at what time.  A motion picture will most likely keep your attention, then just a picture or just language.  Postman and Power suggest that the new picks and choices what they feel is entertaining to viewers and not what is important.  A newspaper does not use pictures and motion pictures to get a point across.  The articles are real and full of information that every individual can read and understand.  "The fact that television news is principally made up of moving pictures prevents it from offering lengthy, coherent explanations of events" (postman and power 489).

Gray-Rosendale, L. (2008) Pop Perspectives. Readings in Critique Contemporary Culture. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc