Taylor the Teacher

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Lord knows I’ve tried, been a witness to homicideDrivebys taking lives, little kids dieWonder why as I walk byBroken-hearted as I glance at the chalk line, getting high
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It’s really weird to me what I didn’t know as a kid. I still don’t know as much as I should know about this incident, but my memory of the Iran Hostage Crisis is this:
I was sitting on the floor, “Indian-style,” listening to the teacher. She sat in one of those black plastic chairs with […]

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Ken once asked me if I would write about Eminem, Tupac, and Ice Cube even if I didn’t care about Google. I know Ken, so I’m not insulted. [Besides, a glance at my Google pagerank should put that accusation to bed.] If anyone else asked me, I would be offended. Or I’d assume they didn’t […]

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~~ I love Allen Ginsberg’s Howl. So many interesting turns of phrase. But I’ve only just discovered it. I once assigned Ginsberg to a 9th grader and his mother had a fit. Oops. “Windows of the Skull” came from that poem, which I title this post because it’s more like a Twitter bomb than a […]

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This is a paper I wrote for a class I took in my Master’s Program called “Life of Tupac Shakur.” I found the class interesting, and thought I’d publish some of what I learned.

 
The year 1971 was a hell of a year to be born for anyone (I know, since I was born two weeks […]

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The parents in the town I live in are all up in arms because of the increasing gang activity. Understandably so.
Their idea of doing something about this is to have a meeting about the negative impact of gansta rap. They specifically mentioned Tupac on the news. Because it’s all his fault, right? There […]

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