It has been awhile, but after seeing Seven Pounds....
ROSARIO DAWSON is the Beauty of the Day
If you haven't seen Seven Pounds, it's a different role for Will Smith. Check it out.
Here's the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9nn0eKwxHY
I am pretty sure everybody knows this story by now,but if you dont...here you go:
A white social studies teacher attempted to enliven a seventh-grade discussion of slavery by binding the hands and feet of two black girls, prompting outrage from one girl’s mother and the local chapter of the NAACP. After the mother complained to Haverstraw Middle School, the superintendent said he was having “conversations with our staff on how to deliver effective lessons.” “If a student was upset, then it was a bad idea,” said Superintendent Brian Monahan of the North Rockland School District in New York City’s northern suburbs. The teacher apologized to the mother who complained and her 13-year-old daughter during a meeting Thursday that also included a representative of the local NAACP. But the mother, Christine Shand of Haverstraw, said Friday she thinks the teacher should be removed from the class. “I think the teacher should have gotten some discipline,” Shand said. “I know if that was me, I would be uncomfortable going back to that class. Why should my daughter have to switch?” Monahan refused to say what, if any, measures were taken against the teacher, Eileen Bernstein, who was still working on Friday. The school district said she was not available for comment. “We encourage our teachers to deliver the curriculum in a variety of ways, to go beyond just reading the textbook,” the superintendent said. “We don’t want to discourage creativity. But this obviously went wrong because the student was upset.” On Nov. 18, Bernstein was discussing the conditions under which African captives were taken to America in slave ships. She bound the two students’ hands and feet with tape and had them crawl under a desk to simulate the experience, Monahan and Shand said. Monahan said the girls were not the only blacks in the class. Gabrielle Shand burst into tears at home, her mother said.
“There are other ways to demonstrate slavery,” Christine Shand said Friday. “It doesn’t matter the color of the kids, it’s just not right to tie them up. My daughter is still upset, still embarrassed. She didn’t go to school today.”
CREDIT TO NY DAILY NEWS
Well in my opinion, this teacher did go too far, but I believe that the media is milking this story as far as they can. Who knows what the real story is? I mean these children are in seventh grade, therefore they have a voice. They could have resisted the teacher and stated that they did not want to be bounded. The only issue with this story is the fact that the children were black. The teacher should have chosen children from any racial background. But that's just my opinion. Share your voice, what do you think?
In "Brooklyn (Go Hard)", Jay-Z samples Santogold's "Shove It," for an ode to Brooklyn. And, indeed, it goes hard. The song will be on the soundtrack for "Notorious," the Notorious B.I.G. biopic (in theatres January).
Also, Drake (or Jimmy from Degrassi) has made a cute little remix to Lykke Li's "Little Bit." With a special appearance by that damn auto tune. Can that trend be over already *cough*kanye*cough*? But the auto tune doesn't really take away from the song, so I approve.
