Name: 【TED-Ed】Poetic stickup: Put the financial aid in the bag - Carvens Lissaint
Uploaded: 2015-01-29T04:52:48.000Z
Duration: 5 min 5 s
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I want everyone to put their hands on top of their head.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Put your hands on top of your head.

Just relax. Just stay calm. Everything will be nice

and smooth if you just participate and just relax, okay?

Yeah. All right, now put your hands down.

Don't be no hero. Put your hands down. Okay?

I want you to run all that financial aid.

Yeah, sucka, put the scholarships in the bag, yeah, yeah.

Put the scholarships in the bag. Yeah, you too, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, you. Yeah, yeah. You over there, go put the Pell Grants in the bag.

Put the Pell Grants in there too. Yeah, you. Go. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You, go over to that booth and get me some of them subsidized, some of them subsidized loans.

It ain't a game no more. I know you're hiding the money somewhere here.

With all this tuition you got me and my homies payin' --

Woo! -- I'm about to get gangster-scholar up in here.

Up in here. I'm about to go N.W.A. meets Beastie Boys

Cause we're not gonna take it. ♪ Oh ...

Oh, you thought this was a game. Back up, back up. Mind your business, that's all.

I'll say something else. Don't call me crazy.

Do not call me -- Rives, tell 'em don't call me crazy before I go crazy.

I'm telling you, now I'm about to go crazy. I'm about to go Tupac Thug Life in here.

Like, "I ain't a killer but don't push me. Revenge is like the sweetest joy --" Woo!

I'm about to go Biggie Smalls Brooklyn type, like,

"Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke --"

listen to my nine millimeter go bang." You know what?

Hide your kids, hide your wife, 'cause we gettin' financial aid

all up and in and around here. You think this is a game?

You think I want to be out here doing this?

Do you know how hard it was to find these guns?

I'm just trying to get my education. You know what I mean?

I'm just trying to fight for the opportunity that my great-great-great-grandfather died for, you know what I'm saying?

And all these years, all y'all been doing

is strangling the life out of my bank statement,

leaving my pockets as vacant as parking lots.

Professor Willie Lynch taught you well, huh?

Force feed my people deception and failure.

Condition our brains to malfunction at the sight

Make us pay for an education that will end up failing us.

the money we earned from our back-breaking work.

Sounds like the rust of shackles locking their way onto my degree.

Sounds like the Thirteenth Amendment in reverse.

Lecture halls shouldn't feel like cotton fields,

shouldn't sound like muffled freedom songs trapped

in the jaws of a generation's dreams. Oho! Oh, it all makes sense.

Give us enough to get by but not enough to provide for ourselves.

Keep us psychologically feeble so we lose our purpose in the process.

Stop thieving our aspirations out of our sleep.

to let green paper build a barricade in front of our futures.

I will not let you potentially rob food out of my children's stomach.

I wish it didn't come to this, but I have to for my cousins

in Haiti who don't even know what a college looks like,

for my best friend Raymond sitting in cell block nine

for the nooses hanging my GPA by its neck.

Put the money in the bag. I just want to go to school, man.

I just want to get my education. I just want to learn. I just want to grow.

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【TED-Ed】Poetic stickup: Put the financial aid in the bag - Carvens Lissaint

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