Little black girl writes a poem

[FridgeMagnet]

I can believe that a seven-year old wrote that, particularly a bright one with pushy parents who's been exposed to lots of poetry and rhetoric. It would be quite possible to put something like that together, particularly as it reads as a collection of rather disparate elements.

 

[goldenecitrone]

What a crap poem. It doesn't even rhyme. I prefer Tracy Chapman, any day.

 

[nino_savatte]

There seemed to be some doubt about whether or not this child was for real. I did my own research, and yes - the child is for real.

Do I think that her poems are "all-that" (american phrase)? No - I think that they are terrible.

Do I think that this is a case of proud parents using the system to promote their kid? Yes.

Do I think that this is one of JC's wind-ups? Yes. Actually, I quite enjoy it when he posts stuff like this. I enjoy playing with google - you should see some of the places I end up in. I also enjoy watching the reaction from people, who really should know better imo, jump on the trash-johnny bandwagon.

Anything else?

The "jump on the the trash-johnny bandwagon"? Thanks for reducing this discussion to one about the vanity/ego of Johnny.

You may find him witty and amusing but as you've admitted, it's a windup and that says a lot about you too, especially when you say

Do I think that this is one of JC's wind-ups? Yes. Actually, I quite enjoy it when he posts stuff like this.

You enjoy this sort of thing do you? I won't be taking you too seriously in future in that case...not that I did anyway.

In case you weren't aware of it, this is commonly known as "trolling".

 

[spring-peeper]

In case you weren't aware of it, this is commonly known as "trolling".

To respond to this correctly, I would have to start taking your actions and compare them against the faq.

Nothing contructive would be accomplished other than more mudslinging and there really is enough of that on the site.

I accept people for what they are, not what I would like them to be.

I think that stopping now is a good thing.

 

[nino_savatte]

To respond to this correctly, I would have to start taking your actions and compare them against the faq.

Nothing contructive would be accomplished other than more mudslinging and there really is enough of that on the site.

I accept people for what they are, not what I would like them to be.

I think that stopping now is a good thing.

Are you threatening me? What are you saying? That you're going to report me? For what, precisely?

I challenged you on your 'points' it's not my fault that your ego can't take the criticism.

Your friend, Johnny has trolled and trust you to stick up for him.

 

[friedaweed]

I wrote the bible when i was 4

It's a nice poem

 

[maes]

Yes, but there's no racial element to that view.

If I remember correctly Aristotle describes them as different races, as well as saying that foreigners and women come under the same inferior category.

 

[phildwyer]

If I remember correctly Aristotle describes them as different races, as well as saying that foreigners and women come under the same inferior category.

You do not remember correctly.

 

[maes]

You do not remember correctly.

ok

 

[jayeola]

<can't be arsed>

<ditto>

 

[Jo/Joe]

Is a strange poem for a 7yr old to write. Columbus and Henry Morgan not the first people who springs to mind regarding slavery to be honest.

Dragging Darwin into race/politics does the man a great disservice.
If someone chooses to misunderstand and mangle his science to prop up whatever stupid social theories they have that isn't relevant to him.
It's like the stupid idea that Einstein is responsable for the invention of the atomic bomb.

Yeah, that girl is a fookin' moron.

Seriously, great poem, a bit clumsy thematically (eg darwin). Enjoyed it though.

 

[tangentlama]

the girl understands meter and rhyme
not who was Darwin or paradigm
she's young, give her some slack
what difference does it make that she's black?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Is a strange poem for a 7yr old to write. Columbus and Henry Morgan not the first people who springs to mind regarding slavery to be honest.

Dragging Darwin into race/politics does the man a great disservice.
If someone chooses to misunderstand and mangle his science to prop up whatever stupid social theories they have that isn't relevant to him.

Sort of like something a bright seven year old might write.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

It might be shit, but it does show a grasp of vocbluary and concepts above the level of any seven year old I've ever encountered.

"Mozart's musical ability became noticable when he was about three years old."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart#Family_and_early_years

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

This WHOLE thread is JC2 getting YOU to think he's_the_man...but he's NOT..he's more clever than that...note his complete and utter lack of responses except for swipe at a woman for questioning him?...JC2 is a prick!

You keep trying to bring it back to me, 'boskysquelch'.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

i dont think she wrote this poem, she is seven for fuck's sake. i could not have written something like that at that age, i liked writing stories and i cared about animal rights, most kids that age are not interested in political concepts as advanced as what she is describing, they simply want to be kids.

Or, maybe she's especially gifted, and you aren't. Maybe.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

did you read the rest of the tome on that cache...funny/curious that I can find NO other reference on The Net to it?<<<via Google of course.
:

Another appearance [page 7 of 28]:

http://www.ci.mount-vernon.ny.us/seasonal_activities/summerbreeze/pdf/Summer Breeze ONLY.pdf

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

'Little black girl writes a poem'... I thought the thread title was a dig at the obvious manipulativeness of it all; I'm disappointed to see the likes of JC2 falling for it.

P.S If something contains the word 'paradigm' it is not poetry...

How exactly have I been taken in?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

btw spring-peeper I have quite often observed that whenever JC2 gets into a corner you seem to appear and show yourelf to be an ally of sorts...curious.

But hey...I'm just one of a group of British people on the Internet who opinion you rate more lowly than the Council of New York...

You figured all this out after only 3000 posts, 'boskysquelch'?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

What a crap poem. It doesn't even rhyme. I prefer Tracy Chapman, any day.

I get it: they're both black!

 

[Derian]

You figured all this out after only 3000 posts, 'boskysquelch'?

He's changed his user name. His tagline makes it clear who he was previously. Why the inverted commas? Twice?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=our_schools&id=3989316

 

[Derian]

I get it: they're both black!

What are you implying here?

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I can't believe that this blackhole of non-issueness has generated five pages of replies.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

What are you implying here?

Ask the poster who brought up tracy chapman.

 

[Derian]

Ask the poster who brought up tracy chapman.

I don't need to. I'm asking you what YOU are implying by your response.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I don't need to. I'm asking you what YOU are implying by your response.

I'm implying that the poster I was responding to wanted to make a snide comment about the little girl, and the only way he could think of doing it, was to compare her to some unrelated black person.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

err...HOW MANY years?

Britain: 1805. The US: 1865, for the whole country.

 

[Derian]

I'm implying that the poster I was responding to wanted to make a snide comment about the little girl, and the only way he could think of doing it, was to compare her to some unrelated black person.

I expect he'll answer for himself in the morning. But I interpreted his comment as a humorous comment about the poem:

What a crap poem. It doesn't even rhyme.

Seems clear to me.

Then

I prefer Tracy Chapman, any day.

And lots of Tracey Chapman's lyrics do rhyme, as seems to be his preference e.g.

Across the lines
Who would dare to go
Under the bridge
Over the tracks
That seperates whites from blacks

Choose sides
Or run for your life
Tonight the riots begin
On the back streets of America
They kill the dream of America

Little black girl gets assaulted
Ain't no reason why
Newspaper prints the story
And racist tempers fly
Next day it starts a riot
Knives and guns are drawn
Two black boys get killed
One white boy goes blind

Little black girl gets assaulted
Don't no one know her name
Lots of people hurt and angry
She's the one to blame

You know what Johnny - I think you weren't being entirely nice there. There was no need for it.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

But the mood was mostly upbeat. The rally included performances by traditional African drummers, a troupe of a dozen or so men and boys who demonstrated their physical fitness by demonstrating push-ups and pull-ups in difficult positions and a poetry reading by 7-year-old Autumn Ashante.

Autumn suggested that violence in black communities can be traced to the 400 years when Africans were "ripped and torn like an aborted fetus" from their homes and shipped to slavery in America. She ended the poem with a call to "stop the killing."

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051121/NEWS02/511210340/1017