URBAN is the new BLACK
Yes my friends, Uncle Charlie had a sister making mint juleps double time last week. I've been DYING to blog and visit my fav blogs like I want to, but alas.....homework once again took priority over all of you. My sincere apologies....wait....eff that, I'm not apologizing, I'm getting my learn on. You all should be doing the same if you haven't yet accomplished that and well, if you have there is always something new to learn. Anyways, my blogfriend and fellow non-gay Justice League member, Slaus emailed me last night and with a simple sentence lit the fire under my yellow arse. This post has been sitting in editville for a couple days so I got right on it.
Have you been over to Original Thought Mag yet? Well what the hell are you waiting for? *waits for Jay-Z* Damn guess he's not showing up to finish the bar...anways, if you want to read about about Ninja's personal business, check out my article . For those of you who have already been over there and checked it out, I can't thank you enough for the encouraging words, the thank you's and your own personal stories that you've shared with me. The topic of my article truly changed my life, and I am grateful I am able to share it with you. Now on with the show:
URBAN ur·ban---adjective
1.of, pertaining to, or designating a city or town.
2.living in a city.
3.characteristic of or accustomed to cities; citified:"He is an urban type."<---note it doesn't say "This Black guy is an Urban type."
Did you know this is just a euphemism for all things Black? Okay we'll throw Hispanic in too cause....well...their brown too. Oh yeah, and poor, so basically they are Black too. Since I have been taking these Education classes I have been smothered by the word URBAN.
Gather round Ninja babies, this here griot has a story about the word URBAN to tell you:
URBAN Educational Setting=Inner City School, School in the Hood, Predominately Black School
URBAN School District=Where the Blacks & the Puerto Ricans go to school (see: the CITY), and ofcourse the smattering of Asians, and some YT's but other YT's call them "white trash" (see they even label and define their own!!!!)
URBAN Planning @ a Community Agency=Underpaid social work trying to figure out how to make the Hood better
URBAN Music Department=the sometimes big, sometimes small but always loud, music section in the store where Hip-Hop, R&B and Latin (see:Reggaetón-LMAO) is sold.
URBAN Reading Section= the little part in the bookstore where the nigglature is. Don't get it twisted, Pinga 
and his many cousins have Spiclature to read and it's on the same shelf. SIDENOTE: Shout out and much love to Slaus, Ambboogie and Beth, my fellow bloggers that slay me on the regular over at O Hell Nawl.....can we call that Urban Humor? LMUAO!!!**
In case you haven't understood me, URBAN is the new Black. DAMN! We stay behind a wall of disguise! Nigger, Negro, AfroAmerican, Nigger, Black-American, Nigger, (plain ol') Black, Nigger, African-American, and now....
URBAN......Nigger
Seriously for a people that have displacement ingrained into the very essence of who we are, we steadfastly allow others to label, define, describe, and NAME us! Now our children shall bear the brunt of this new URBAN phenomena of URBAN=Black, because wherever they choose too live that has a few brown hued folks clustered together will shortly be labeled URBAN and they will send our granchildren to an URBAN school where all the teachers look pretty gotdamned SUBURBAN. *cues Coolio*
What and who are we going to be? Ya'll tell me what you think, because I know what I think and every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, in two different Education classes , I school these naive children taking these college classes with me, about what I think. Why? Well remember, my old ass is back in school after oooooooh so many years, these fresh faces I'm in there with are going to be teaching your children and grandchildren one day and they all just can't wait to save all the little Urban babies from themselves. It's my duty to burst their bubble. If I don't then well these folks will take over:
Now ain't that some shit?
What do you, Constant Blog Reader, think of how this word is being used?
**Laughin My Urban Ass Off
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