Culture Powerful song written by JCPS students asks for reparations - Young Students dress as slaves for a video demanding reparations

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – A popular music video going around shows Jefferson County Public Schools students asking for reparations.

Resource teacher NyRee Clayton-Taylor helped her students create the video. Clayton-Taylor said it all started when her students started asking about reparations, what they were and what it meant for them. Now, students like 4th grader Jeremiah Briscoe know all about what they deserve.

Resource teacher NyRee Clayton-Taylor helped her students create the video.

"They was not too young to fight against segregation and at my age I can still fight for justice,” said Briscoe.

Briscoe and 13 other students, dubbed the Real Young Prodigys, took a trip to Alabama over the summer where they visited a number of important spots critical to the civil rights movement.

Jeremiah Briscoe, a 4th grader, is one of the students in Real Young Prodigys, makers of the video.

They spent a few weeks prior writing a rap song based on the history and how it should impact their present.

Parts of their video shoot were filmed at Locust Grove Plantation. The video shows the students dressed as slaves, a decision that has brought out the trolls on social media.

The 14 students in Real Young Prodigys created the music video after a visit to Alabama over the summer where they saw several places on the forefront of the civil right movement.

"I told them from the beginning that the conversation was going to be hard and not everyone was going to like this,” Clayton-Taylor said. “Me, being naïve and lovey-dovey and loving everyone I did not expect for trolls to attack my students and to attack them with stereotypes."

The comments to the YouTube video are abusive and offensive. The young students who saw the comments on YouTube reacted better than most adults would.

"They took up for themselves by explaining themselves with facts and they were not disrespectful,” Clayton-Taylor said.

As for Jeremiah, he can't wait to push the boundaries again, creating change as he takes part in the next Real Young Prodigy’s hit song.

“It was shocking, because all the stuff I couldn’t learn in school, I learned outside of school,” said Briscoe.

Resource teacher NyRee Clayton-Taylor helped her students create the video.

This music video has me feeling all types of ways and I can't stop laughing

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The Real Young Prodigy's RAPERATIONS

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[Clop]

Did they seriously misspell "Prodigies?" Or is that meant to be a fucking terrible name? Shows what a fine job the teacher's doing.

And that revolver in the kid's hand, oh how I love that. Let's keep glorifying guns in the hands of da sassy rappin' hood, because self awareness is hard.

EDIT: I'm sorry, I have to do this.

See me after class, my nigga. (forgot to also mark the missing capitalization on "Prodigy")

 

[Stranger Neighbors]

Did they seriously misspell "Prodigies?" Or is that meant to be a fucking terrible name? Shows what a fine job the teacher's doing.

And that revolver in the kid's hand, oh how I love that. Let's keep glorifying guns in the hands of da sassy rappin' hood, because self awareness is hard.

I have no clue. That would be quite embarrassing if the teacher helped them with the name...I am super surprised by the quality of the video. I definitely want to look into who made this for them because this definitely isn't just a school teacher and some elementary school kids doing.

 

[Oskar Dirlewanger]

 

[Unog]

Putting aside the fact that "rap-erations" looks like "rape rations", the absolute lack of any sort of self-awareness of how fucking bad this looks is stunning. Like, jaw-droppingly fucking stunning.

 

[Stranger Neighbors]

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The simple fact that it ends it's sentence with "Namaste" makes me want to kill myself

 

[Neozeonian]

First thing I thought of,

Blazing Saddles, Camp Town Ladies

The best video, and audio of this seen ever done

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[Oh Long Johnson]

The end, with them letting it rain, makes Dave Chappelle look like a prophet.

 

[Clop]

I have no clue. That would be quite embarrassing if the teacher helped them with the name...I am super surprised by the quality of the video. I definitely want to look into who made this for them because this definitely isn't just a school teacher and some elementary school kids doing.

Director: https://kg-media.eu/en/ My mistake, it's a different company, just same name.
School: https://hhn2l.com/

That's a terrible page for the school by the way. After a big of searching I still have zero clue where these people even teach. I did find their mission statement though.

Hip Hop Based Education (HHBE) provides new avenues for learning, predicated on self-awareness, expression, and critical thought. While nested in the constructs of critical theory culturally relevant pedagogy and self-awareness. HHBE is a relevant theory that seeks to bridge culturally relevant teaching to the classroom. While HHBE has been reserved for middle and high school-aged students, its nonexistence in elementary classrooms is a disservice for teachers of urban populations and the youngest students who are influenced by Hip Hop through their caregivers and communities’ music, language, and cultural pastimes. This notion is further problematized considering the minority majority report of 2014, which show minority student enrollment (50.3%) surpassing White student enrollment in U.S. schools (National Center for Educational Statistics,2014). Therefore traditional pedagogic models, which privilege Eurocentric perspectives, will no longer be an adequate means of effective instruction for the majority of U.S. students. Grappling within these educational contexts, academic leaders are eager to find effective pathways which bridge the achievement gap through culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP), and equitable teaching practice and will serve as this pathway by merging Hip-Hop Based Education, CRP, and Critical Literacy to help children who are most at-promise.

"Eurocentric perspectives," eh?

The director on the other hand..


.. a bunch of white Europeans and a cat. Do I even have to make fun of this?

 

[Stranger Neighbors]

Putting aside the fact that "rap-erations" looks like "rape rations", the absolute lack of any sort of self-awareness of how fucking bad this looks is stunning. Like, jaw-droppingly fucking stunning.

Yeah I really don't blame the kids on this one. It really seems like the teacher probably had a big hand in this. The article seems to play it off like it was all the kids ideas but I seriously doubt it

 

[Unog]

Yeah I really don't blame the kids on this one. It really seems like the teacher probably had a big hand in this. The article seems to play it off like it was all the kids ideas but I seriously doubt it

Well of course it wasn't the kids. It's never the kids when it comes to shit like this, which doesn't help at all how fucking terrible this looks.

Like, god damn man, if it came out that this video were somehow sponsored by a fucking klansman I'd believe it.

Edit: Kind of makes me think of this

 

[Clop]

Yeah I really don't blame the kids on this one. It really seems like the teacher probably had a big hand in this. The article seems to play it off like it was all the kids ideas but I seriously doubt it

I most definitely have zero problems with them learning through fun activities. Just really irks me that they're learning they're being "oppressed" by a white population when they're given a fucking education, likely on tax payer dime, and then nobody even spell checks shit.

Lot of them are going to grow up hating other races because they're taught that they should deserve more than they have, and I don't even fucking know what they think they're not getting; They're on the fucking Internet in front of billions of people, doing what they love and paying nothing in return for that, and they see themselves as victims because their teacher said they are. God fucking damnit.

 

[A Useless Fish]

Director: https://kg-media.eu/en/
School: https://hhn2l.com/

That's a terrible page for the school by the way. After a big of searching I still have zero clue where these people even teach. I did find their mission statement though.

"Eurocentric perspectives," eh?

The director on the other hand..
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.. a bunch of white Europeans and a cat. Do I even have to make fun of this?

It's times like this I really wish there was a 'confused' rating. Is this white guilt? Trolling? Some elaborate 55D chess strategy to further cause racial divisions?

 

[Franjevina]

I would give billions of dollars for move-back-to-Africa program .

( gas chambers are step 2 )

 

[Stranger Neighbors]

Director: https://kg-media.eu/en/
School: https://hhn2l.com/

That's a terrible page for the school by the way. After a big of searching I still have zero clue where these people even teach. I did find their mission statement though.

"Eurocentric perspectives," eh?

The director on the other hand..
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.. a bunch of white Europeans and a cat. Do I even have to make fun of this?

HOLY.FUCKING.SHIT.

LMFAO

I can't even...

A bunch of whities dismantling "Euro Centrist teaching"

This rabbit hole definitely goes deeper

"Hip Hop Based Education"

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

"Hip Hop Based Education"

"Damn, I got Bitches Ain't Shit But Hos and Tricks 101 after lunch, homie!"

 

[The Pink Panther]

This is not helping anything. Instead of asking money from whitey we should motivating the black community to bring themselves up from our past historical struggles and actually do something to decrease the wealth gap instead of gib mes. We shouldnt be training our future children to be leeches, but hard workers whom build themselves over time with their wealth as generations go by.


The worst sin of this is that they referenced the common ghetto acronym that is the title of a much superior song, that is actually about trying to make money and a living through hardships.

 

[HowdyDoody]

That's a terrible page for the school by the way. After a big of searching I still have zero clue where these people even teach. I did find their mission statement though.

She's from an Elementary school in Louisville known as Wheatley. She's also the 2019 Kentucky elementary teacher of the year.
She's pretty open about everything
Kendrick for the kids
Her twitter
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The area where that school is placed is square in the "bad parts of town" in the west end.

Edit:
HHN2L,Inc. has only been around 2 months
Some Louisville parents wonder about the gun use

 

[The Flawless Gazelles]

gas huffing aussies made a better song, niggers should feel ashamed.

 

[Clop]

She's from an Elementary school in Louisville known as Wheatley. She's also the 2019 Kentucky elementary teacher of the year.
She's pretty open about everything
Kendrick for the kids
Her twitter
Archive
The area where that school is in is is square in the "bad parts of town" in the west end.

That just makes me even more confused as to how and why the fuck they got a directing crew from the Mediterranean Europe. Surely there must've been directing companies in the US? Even companies that would want to make such terrible propaganda using children?