Don't Read Me. I'm a Waste of Time. Seriously.

Alright. I'm gonna be perfectly honest. I’m gonna go right out and say what nobody else did. I didn’t like the speech. Not because of the content. Not because he doesn’t know how to deliver a speech. Not because I don’t like black people. I didn’t like it because of his form. Not the fact that it flowed well. It was the fact that he made a large formal deal out of it, and then tried to keep his speech very intimate. I think that if he wanted to really reach the fraction of the student body that might actually apply his message, he should have delivered his speech an hour or so after school let out. Not right in the middle of the day. I think he should have widely broadcast that he would be giving the speech. And of course, we can all be pretty sure that practically every Social Studies teacher on the planet would probably say, “Hey, hey, hey! Listen to da’ speech fo’ extra credit today!” And of course, the students that would actually care about school, rather than the ones that had already given up, would go home, and earn them some extra credits. Instead, by interrupting class, or more importantly, lunch, he was, in fact, detracting from learning something that day. Yeah it was only 15 minutes, but honestly, of those of you that had class during the speech, how many of you actually did something that day in that class. I didn’t. By the end of that class we were watching Seinfeld and playing Chinese Poker. Not Learning. Who knows? During that period of academic lethargy I might have been bored enough to try drugs or something. Or drop out of school. Who knows.