Success at university takes more than good matric results and funding. It also takes cultural capital - knowing how the system works, feeling entitled to ask questions, understanding unspoken academic rules, and having people who can guide you. For many students from low socio-economic backgrounds, these things are not inherited, they are learned the hard way.
If we are serious about transformation, we must talk about the barriers we don’t see.
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White people under apartheid at the University of Port Elizabeth paid R2840 p/a for fees — 84% of its was subsidised by the state, leaving them with a debt of R440 p/a if they managed to complete a 3 year degree in 5 years. Don’t buy their “we worked hard for our things” rubbish
Would you have preferred it if one of them stayed in the closet and dated you while f***ing other men on the low?
The same people that complain about DL men are the same people that complain about men openly loving each other. FU.
She truly gets the THEATRICAL nature of R&B. It's excessive, it's obsessive, it's deranged, it's all consuming, over powering, horrifying, mystifying. It's all of it. Her love songs embody it all the time.
That's why to say she's not THE ARCHITECT behind her art is just a lie.
Back in 06 I met a hairstylist on set of a shoot. She was super cool, and I loved her work, so I made her my hairstylist. I was her guinea pig to learn/practice doing sew-ins. Yesterday, she became an OSCAR NOMINATED HAIRSTYLIST FOR SINNERS!! Go Shunika! 😭🙌🏾
this is when you use all the data points you’ve collected about yourself to remind yourself that you’ve done hard things before. you have to build a solid self concept to win, it’s a must.
Remember the dumb niggas in (high) school who’d sit at the back and say “Give me zero, ma’am”? The ones who’d ask to copy your homework EVERY SINGLE MORNING?
That’s who’s defending AI music/art the most.
Niggas who don’t know what it’s like to put an ounce effort into anything.