You are an overweight, overpaid, ego-inflated pig that embodies everything I ever fought against as a higher-education organizer. You also grade my papers and ultimately decide whether or not I am "good enough" to stay in your Graduate program. I hope you are enjoying the blood, sweat, and tears of my tuition money while you brag about the Vodka in ( Read more... )

is thinking about the Middle Schoolers in the Bronx that could have snapped me like like a twig.  Where on Earth did a class made 6', 200LB Middle Schoolers come from?  The words "Classroom Management" don't really seem to capture the situation.  So, I did what any slender professorial gentleman would do - I told the massive kids that I knew some ( Read more... )

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This was inspired by sad actual events last summer...

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This is my first recording of Slant Rhyming - done on a bootleg Dell Mic with a banged-out Laptop that runs Linux...I also had a lung infection...total Rappin' Punk ISH!

Enjoy!

When I'm Mopping up the Garbage ( Read more... )

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Because I am hungry!

For eons, humans have been trying to define the concept of love.  At it's most base, it is a series of molecular reactions that have formed cells for the purpose of releasing certain chemicals in the body that create pleasure and attraction to others who (somewhat randomly) generate the desire to procreate and maintain the species.  I cannot recall ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since I have posted. I may as well make it a Meme ( Read more... )

For those who have followed this blog since its inception (no, not the movie!), this used to be my mental space for my own explorations of race, culture, and white privilege. In light of some recent discussions, I think that it is time to dust it off again.

My fiance, Helene, is about to finish her bachelors and is taking an elective course on race ( Read more... )