"HIgher Learning" - unlearn ????

[Da Magik]

"Higher Learning" ... hmm. It's funny how this movie made by a
black man felt like a
white women - made drama. And here we go again: black, white, male
female. Or let me make it
even simpler RIGHT and WRONG. And this "unlearn" message in the end of
the movie. What
da fuck is that suppose to mean? Let me think ... Forget, forget the
differences that separate us
so much PEOPLE. Is that's what John Singleton is trying to show US,
people? Maybe .. Maybe
NOT. Maybe is just the opposite. Forget that anything can change and
remember that the "white
man" (Ice-T, by the way - isn't THAT "ironic") will always be, the "white
man". Well fuck that
too cause I AM the white man & I hate the white man from the movie -
Michael Rapaport. However
I'm concerned with this actors particular choice (by Mr. Singleton, I
suppose) cause if ya
rememba', same Michael Rapaport played in "Zebra Head". Where he was
just a opposite: white
kid gettin' down with a sista' (cute one too), which brought all kinda'
problems too. Then again,
maybe John's Singleton's intention was too show ... that it is that
"white man", who first fucking
a "black woman", then for he kills another one: "black woman". In order
to ? Keep white
supremacy. No ... that shit makes no sense. Oops, maybe that's IT!?
"Higher Learning" in our
beautiful country (sorry, your country - I ain't no citizen yet) makes no
sense. I mean, you'll
study alright, maybe get a dope job, but then you gonna die anyway ...
Hey ! Try to listen for a change would ya?! Listen to what I'm
tryin' to say to ya. It
might make no sense at this moment, but once you'll put your own
experience and feeling into it,
you'll realize that with this "makes no sense" attitude you ain't goin'
no-were ...
Coming back to da movie: It IS cool, it does exist, it's there for
you to watch & see.
Oops went away from what I wanted to tell ya AGAIN. What was I sayin' ?
Ohh, John
Singleton as a "white man". Well at least trying to trick us and present
the movie as made by one.
Hey, but what about the "Poetic Justice". You see, you got it all wrong.
IN order to make you
more intelligent, or "informative" as professor ... would say. Johnny is
trying to be completely
different then in "Poetic Justice", he ain't tryin' to be categorized as
a black director. (Maybe he
is?) Well goin' on with my thought he AIN'T. Although there is a
mixture of black and white in
the movie (well besides one Jewish & "I don't know" one). If that's what
you see in that movie,
you are either "ghetto person" (cute ain't it ...), who just payed some
$$$ to Mr. Singleton or you
are a "white man" who left in the middle of the movie (& payed Johnny
anyway ...). What he's
trying to do not only by his movie, but also, by his actions is the
"unite" shit (or whichever way
you'd call it).
Alright ya. I know it was a long time ago you all've seen the
movie. SO if you do like
what ya read, go & see it again. I like it. Is dope & ALL that. It is
really thou for the smart ones
you know. Of course it made money (isn't he slick :), but it has da
message not many will get.
UNITE - unity - PEACE (being both use as a "what's up" & it's true
meaning ...).

Another HarD word & THE most important word in this movie is: THINK.
Simple words that ARE simple, but mean a LOT. I know U'll have a hard
time reading this but
hey ... I don't give a fuck. I just wrote it for myself anyway. You
just happen to that fool, who
was joined for a RIDE.

Da Magik

[was...@delphi.com]

What????
Although I agree with what you're saying, I think, you don't
need to elaborate that much. Kidd, there is no need to write
an E-novel.


Asia
............who happens to be a "whitie" himself

[Franknseus]

I have no idea what you're talking about or why you're talking about it
on rec.music.funky. But Higher Learning had a pretty cool soundtrack. I
like the funk instrumentals Stanley Clarke did for the score, though it's
unfortunate that they're not on the album. The Me'Shell Nd'egeocello song
is pretty cool, too.
As for the movie, I can't really figure out if you're saying you liked
it or didn't like it (what's this stuff about Ice-T being "the white man"
and what does he have to do with Higher Learning?) but I think it's really
underrated. As for the question (I think) you were asking about the
"unlearn" message, it was a theme throughout the film. Notice that all of
this shit goes down at Columbus University -- there are statues of
Columbus, George Washington, and other "founding fathers" eerily looming
over all of these fucked up events. This is to represent that the problems
we have in race relations today are rooted all the way back to the
founding of this country, the raping of the land, etc. We must "unlearn"
or at least rethink a lot of the ideas that have been instilled in us
since then.