Habits+of+the+Heart

Habits of the Heart
"That's some rough girls from Rutgers, they got tattoos.. thats some nappy headed hoes." -Don Imus, [|Rutgers racism statement] (listen to 5 and 8)

"Let me provide a context for (the girls of Rutger).. .there's a difference between premeditated murder and an accidental gun shot... This program has been for 35 years, has been a program that makes fun of every, everybody." - Don Imus second on air apology

"Racism: Any action, practice, or belief that reflects the racial worldview — the ideology that humans are divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called "races," that there is a causal link between inherited physical traits and traits of personality, intellect, morality, and other cultural behavioral features, and that some "races" are innately superior to others." - Answers.com definition

"The real inequality which is produced by fortune or by law is always succeeded by an imaginary inequality which is implaneted in the manners of the people." - Alexis Detocqueville, __Democracy in America__ (p. 414)

"I hated Shirley [temple]. Not because she was cute, but because she danced with [|Bojangles], who was my friend, my uncle, my daddy, and who ought to have been soft-shoeing it and chuckling with me. Instead he was enjoying, sharing, giving a lovely dance thing with one those white girls whose socks never slid down under their heels...I had not yet arrived at the turning point in my development of my psyche which would allow me to lover her. What I felt at that time was unsullied hatred. But before that I had felt a stranger, more frightening thing than hatred for all Shirley Temples of the world." - Toni Morrison, __The Bluest Eye__ (p. 19)

Changes (verse 3) It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes. Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live and let's change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do what we gotta do, to survive. And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace It's war on the streets & the war in the Middle East Instead of war on poverty they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me And I ain't never did a crime I ain't have to do But now I'm back with the blacks givin' it back to you Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up, crack you up and pimp slap you up You gotta learn to hold ya own they get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone But tell the cops they can't touch this I don't trust this when they try to rush I bust this That's the sound of my tool you say it ain't cool my mama didn't raise no fool And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped & I never get to lay back 'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs some buck that I roughed up way back comin' back after all these years rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is media type="youtube" key="-T7uKvpzVXI" Reflection on Habbits of the Heart