Breh, am I misunderstanding the Autobiography of Malcolm X?

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Trying to think back on all the things we read in HS for English classes, all I can remember right now is one Greek myths class, Catcher in the Rye, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Crucible, and Malcolm's autobiography. :mjlol: I couldn't stand assigned reading in those days.
:dwillhuh: that's a whole lotta entertaining and insightful reading right there breh

arthur miller the gawd :lawd:
 

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damn shame
I dont know the deal now with how things work in PG, but they deliberately under educated us in that county. Dude even the AP History class was some bs, that shiit pissed me off. Shiit wasn't even remotely challenging.
 

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man I still haven't read the Autobiography, need to get some cash together and go cop a copy soon
 

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I dont know the deal now with how things work in PG, but they deliberately under educated us in that county. Dude even the AP History class was some bs, that shiit pissed me off. Shiit wasn't even remotely challenging.
it's still like that in some schools. i'd say it varies from class to class even. but there has at least been an effort to change. it's not near ideal or even productive all the time, but there's been improvement

but you know, even mo county schools can be a joke too. the reputation isn't always deserved.

it boils down to individual teachers and administrators, really
 

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it's still like that in some schools. i'd say it varies from class to class even. but there has at least been an effort to change. it's not near ideal or even productive all the time, but there's been improvement

but you know, even mo county schools can be a joke too. the reputation isn't always deserved.

it boils down to individual teachers and administrators, really
Breh I was so jealous with the level of education your got in Mo. Yes I know things weren't perfect out there.
 

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And then the disparity between kids in comprehensive and honors classes, was just ridiculous.

Comprehensive classes were just flat out poor, like they didn't even give a damn about those kids
 

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:dwillhuh: that's a whole lotta entertaining and insightful reading right there breh

arthur miller the gawd :lawd:

Some more titles are slowly coming back to me now and I remember finding just about all of them to be a major chore.
Book I remember branding as a huge pile of doodoo was the Great Gatsby and I remember being shocked a movie was made out of it.
Antigone and The Crucible were the only things I considered good when I graduated :heh:.
 

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Breh I was so jealous with the level of education your got in Mo. Yes I know things weren't perfect out there.
my parents moved to mo county solely for the schools. even where they live has jumped up incredibly in property values from the time they moved.
Some more titles are slowly coming back to me now and I remember finding just about all of them to be a major chore.
Book I remember branding as a huge pile of doodoo was the Great Gatsby and I remember being shocked a movie was made out of it.
Antigone and The Crucible were the only things I considered good when I graduated :heh:.
the great gastby was wild boring to me too. all the movie renditions are equally or more boring.

i get that it spoke on a ridiculous time in U.S. history but i just never got it. i much preferred reading non-fiction on that era to that
 

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elijah muhammad became jealous of malcolm, wanted to turn everybody against him, lik ali.

when malcolm remarked about the chickens coming home to roost referencing kennedy, elijah muhammad used that as his in

then the what you posted in the bold happened and it gave him more of a reason to kill malcolm

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