I enjoyed the visit from Dr. Aguilar! He really spoke to us with his hand in his heart. Through the examples of his own life experiences I could really understand what type of concepts he was talking about. The most interesting part of the whole presentation is that he brought to light once again is the fact that we cannot change somethings, like he said "you can't change the fact that I am colorblind, AT LEAST NOT NOW..." I appreciated that a lot because sometimes I get caught up with the ideas that I am not doing anything(or enough) to change the world, but I can't do it on my own, nevertheless, it can't all be changed at once. I look forward to going for what I want to help change in this world, but now I hope to change only what I know will be feasible according to my surroundings and resources.
Changing the subject a bit...
The rapping explosion!
I personally would not listen to rap if I had the choice between it and alternative rock. I do have to say though that I am beginning to appreciate it because in this political rap I am not seeing the typical "lil wayne" rapper making women look like they are just wash cloths. Anyways! This article portraying rappers like Deeb, Mr. Toure, and Mr. Ben Amor is really getting to the core of what the rappers are really trying to show. I think rapping is strong and powerful so using this type of art to impact society and our generation for social change movements and all is great! Power to these great artists!
I think as SW students we all get a little caught up in the mix and think that we aren't doing enough to change things. But you're right, we can't change it all by ourselves..
ReplyDeleteI also agree with you when you said that rappers, such as lil wayne, degrade women and rap about ridiculous things. I think that when rap really started back in the day, they rapped more about political things than the new artists do now.
Definitely, if we all work together (as cheesy and impossible as it may seem) we can change the world. I really believe that and I hope one day we can change the world for the better. As far as the rap subject I am totally going for the rappers that do music for political and spiritual reasons! Forget lil wayne and all of those other rappers that think that degrading will make them special because they are not, at least to me they aren't!
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