The RMR - March 2011

OPINIONRedefining black

love

NEWS

Study abroad: it’s just that easy

OPINIONIs hip-hop culture

sinister?

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Table of Contents

Blackmon Road

community

still needs help;

a students call

to action

P. 5

Reality shows

reinforce ste-

reotypes

P. 9

CIAA brings in

millions

P. 8

The influence of

hip-hip culture

P. 6 & 7

If there is one thing I’ve learned from college, it’s that you can-not give 100 percent to all of your classes, each and every one of the 5 groups that you’re in, maintain a lively social life, while hold-ing down a job and keep your sanity.

College is a great place to experience anything and everything, but when you do it all at once, your physical and mental health can easily plummet. You have to decide what is important to you. Not only does cutting back conserve energy, it allows you to give more of yourself to things that really interest you. Less is more in some areas of life. I have realized that although it is great to be cordial to everyone, I prefer a small circle.

I can’t deal with my day-to-day emotions, job, school work and extra-curricular activi-ties and 10 other peoples lives. Call me what you’d like, but I know what I can and can’t handle. This doesn’t mean that my friends and classmates aren’t important to me, but for my emotional health, I have to be honest when I need my space or don’t want to deal with your neediness.

I don’t like a lot of noise or when people talk to me loudly. Talk to me in inside voice, I’m right next to you. I think recognizing and owning your personality and how you want to live your life can help your life go a bit more smoothly.

Don’t make excuses to why you don’t want to do something because other people need an explanation. As long as you know what you want to do, do what you do.

is black love on

a decline?

P. 11

top 10 spring

break spots

P. 10


Jasmine RutledgeStaff Writer

Each year, the university receives a large amount of international students from all different parts of the world. The number of American students willing to travel abroad, however, remains relatively lower than those willing to continue their education here.

One reason for this may be because of a lack of information. According to the International Center’s website, the center offers all students the opportunity to work, volunteer or study in 20 different countries worldwide.

Students wanting to get away, but still want to remain close to home have the option of studying at another college or university within the United States by using the National Student Exchange program, according to the International Center’s website.

Whether someone decides to remain close to home or decides to travel the world, studying abroad offers more than just a get-away-from-Winthrop experience. Ex-periencing different cultures and different lifestyles can impact lives the way some may never expect.

Megan Randinelli, the study abroad

graduate assistant, said traveling to London made her view other countries, the United States and even herself in a new way.

“It gave me a new sense of indepen-dence…and prepared me to be an adult,” she said.

Being alone in a foreign land and expe-riencing new cuisines and cultures are the minor things students fear when consider-ing traveling abroad. Other factors, like “postponed graduation dates and expenses,” are what really stray students away from the study abroad experience said Asahia Smith, 21, a business major.

These fears are very common, but often misunderstood, Randinelli said. She pointed out that the trips are paid the same way school tuition is paid. She said graduat-ing later than expected is not necessarily something that has to be an option when exploring another country for a semester or even a year.

“Traveling abroad does not have to prevent you from graduating on time if you have it carefully planned out,” she said. “You have to talk with you’re advisor and make sure everything is in order.”

Senior mass communication major Chelsea Nelson, spent four months in Ire-land during the spring of 2010 and plans to

graduate on time this May.“I could’ve graduated early if I wanted

to, but since I went abroad I am graduating right on time,” she said.

Nelson also addressed other misconcep-tions students may have about study abroad programs, including language barriers and being away from family for such long peri-ods of times.

“In Ireland, they speak English, but when I went to the other countries, everyone was nice and mostly spoke English,” she said.

Social networking sites like Facebook and Skype helped Nelson stay in immediate contact with her loved ones throughout her four-month trip. She said traveling abroad gave her the confidence to do anything she wanted and most importantly it made her a better person.

“I wouldn’t change it for the word,” Nel-son said.

If a student is interested in traveling abroad any time in the future they should definitely plan ahead of time. The first step is to obtain a passport early since the process can take up to eight weeks.

The International Center, located in 212 Dinkins, has applications and checklists, along with additional information about the study abroad program.

LIFE IS BIGGER THAN JUST WUStudying

abroad is not as hard as it

may seem

[you are here]

Traveling abroad does not have to prevent you from graduating on time if you have it carefully planned out.”

- Megan Randinelli

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Blackmon Road community still needs help; student encourages donations

Coming from a develop-ing country, witnessing people struggling in poverty was not uncommon to me. Yet, seeing a depressing, third-world-con-ditioned neighborhood in the United States, just fifteen min-utes away from Winthrop, was really a shocking experience.

Driving down to Archer Dr. is like driving into a totally dif-ferent world. A friendly civilized landscape with beautiful red-brick houses quickly turns into a vast area covered with rocks and dirt- no paved roads, no street-lights, and a totally undeveloped, invisible area.

The houses are ramshackle, loosely put together from clap-boards with rotting wood and sagging windows with broken glass, rust, and random trash ly-ing around. Notorious for being the “trash pile” of York County, the Blackmon Road community has been home to many poor people, mostly blacks, since the 1940s.

South Carolina identified the Blackmon Road community as one of the most environmen-tally, economically, and socially distressed communities in the state. Many residents today still live without running water, stur-dy homes and basic necessities,

such as electricity, septic tanks or heat sources.

Poverty is so extreme that lo-cal officials consider the decrease from 75 percent unemployed to 50 percent unemployed, from 2007 to 2009, a big improvement. The average annual household income is only about $7,000.

Before A Place for Hope (APFH) was established to pro-vide the community with mate-rial resources, hands-on train-ings and programs to address the physical, educational, and em-powerment needs of the neigh-borhood residents to advocate the development of the neighbor-hood, there was no “wash-house” to provide residents with laundry or showers. The residents used to have to carry water in large jugs from a nearby community center or neighbors.

According to Dr. Jennifer Disney, former president of the board of directors for A Place for Hope and associate professor of political science at Winthrop University, out of 15 households, only six are individually owned; the rest are renters and squatters so it is hard to get the govern-ment implement a community-wide master plan to bring water to the community.

As I strode to catch up with Dr. Disney, while she was ranting about the underprivileged area, there was a constant cracking

sound of rocks trampled under my feet. The land is rocky, with thick clay not suitable for septic tanks. To improve the land situ-ation of the area and bring water and sewer into the community would cost at least $3 million. In this economy, finding $3 million to serve more than 50 residents, mostly renters and squatters, is seemingly impossible.

A Place For Hope has been successfully coordinating after-school programs and computer and job training, as well as drug and alcohol counseling. Volun-teers from the Rock Hill and Charlotte-area also come to help renovate homes and distribute

food and clothing. Right now, the organization is

facing the challenge of finding a new director to coordinate new programs and raise funds for new projects after the five-year-sponsorship-contract expired last year. At Winthrop, Student In Free Enterprise (SIFE), a stu-dent organization in the College of Business, is committed to help APFH with fundraising to reno-vate houses, build new facilities and revitalize the neighborhood.

As a student, you can sup-port the community by coming to SIFE’s free cultural event- Hammertime Challenge- on Thursday March 10th at 8 p.m. in

Whitton Auditorium. SIFE will have donation tables at the site to collect money for the Blackmon Road community.

Please remember, when you are laying comfortably in your warm bed, drinking pure tap water, or enjoying your shower, there are dozens of people living just fifteen minutes away from you using kerosene heaters to survive the cold, having no well water and have to wait in line to take a fifteen-minute-shower.

To learn more about the neighborhood and APFH, or to make direct donation to the or-ganization, please visit their web-site at www.aplaceforhope.net

STUDENT REFLECTION

Ngan PhamSpecial for the RMR

Some homes in the Blackmon Road community lack solid structure and plumbing that leaves some residents without water. This past summer A Place for Hope opened a wash house with full bathrooms, washers and dryers for residents in the community.

Photo courtesy of Ngan Pham


It is easy to associate evil with heavy metal or rock music, especially when many of its artists glorify darkness by drinking blood and biting the heads off of bats. It is even believable to associate evil with crazed, seemingly possessed leaders such as Adolf Hitler or with the spooky goth culture that delights in all things highlighting death.

It is when evil creeps into our own backyards that we pretend that this evil does not exist at all. We as a people of color (African Americans, Latinos, Hai-tians, etc.) dismiss Satanists and their doctrine, but fail to see parallels of their sinister beliefs in our homes, playing in some of our CD players or Ipods.

This genre of music has its own smoke screen; disguising itself within the lyr-ics of our favorite artists. This music is hip-hop.

Hip-hop is not just music, but rather a set of suspicious doctrines that ef-fectively hide behind popular beats and catchy lyrics. In order to examine what hip- hop really is, we must first separate it from rap.

Rap, according to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, is “to talk freely or frankly;

to perform rap music.” Simply put, rap is poetry that is skillfully spoken at a speed that complements the rhythm of a song.

Hip-hop is a culture mainly composed of rapping, break-dancing, graffiti art, and mcing. Allhiphop.com quotes KRS One, a self-proclaimed pioneer of hip-hop, saying that “…in 100 years, this book will be a new religion.”

The book he is referring to is a 600-page hip-hop bible.

This proposed religion even has its own Declaration of Peace, where 18 “principles” detail the backbone of what KRS One and others claim the hip- hop culture to be.

“Hip-hop is not just rap music. Hip-hop is beyond rap music. Rap is something we do. Hip-hop is something we live,” says KRS One, according to AllHipHop.

While KRS One seems like the primary spokesperson for the hip-hop movement, other prominent hip- hop-pers such as Pop Master Fabel, Afrika Bambaataa, Grand Master Flash, and DJ Kool Herc support this movement as well.

If KRS One claims it to be a religion, then what is hip- hop’s doctrine?

Quite frankly, hip- hop’s doctrine is everything against Jesus Christ and

the God of the Bible. The problem is that this fact is not easily recognizable by fans and it’s not meant to be for a reason. The bashing of Jesus Christ is done mostly through secret under-tones, subliminal messages, and hidden languages. Only a handful of artists blatantly denounce Jesus Christ openly, but these artists have a following that is so devoted that an insult to Jesus Christ by the artist is always brushed off.

In Snoop Dog’s Murder Was the Case That They Gave Me music video, Snoop Dog is seen lying in a hospital bed when a crow flies in his room. This crow trans-forms into a sneaky, conniving Satan. Snoop Dog mocks the symbolic death of Christ by turning the Satan character into Christ, with thorns on his head and nail holes.

While Kanye West has a song that was hugely accepted by the church (Jesus Walks), he too openly mocks Jesus Christ. West creates controversy, as usual, by posing as Jesus Christ on an issue of Rolling Stone magazine where he is wearing a crown of thorns and comparing himself to Christ’s divinity.

Other rap moguls such as Mase and P. Diddy have openly blasphemed Christ by posing as Him on either album cov-ers or in music videos. Wu-tang Clan’s

website once featured a short animation that showed their trade mark bird flying to a temple where Christ is and then cutting off Christ’s head.

These rappers are not complementing Christ; they are simply making a mock-ery out of his very existence. Hip-hop’s direct attacks to Christ are, unfortunate-ly, more severe when they are done in a subconscious manner. These perverse messages are so subtle and strategic that they stimulate the mind subconsciously, thus tricking the brain into accepting a message while the person is not aware of it doing so. Hip-hop is noted to have some of the same violent affects on teens as does rock and roll and heavy metal.

Hip-hop is more than what Mer-riam Webster’s Dictionary deems “a subculture especially of inner-city youths whose amusements include rap music…” It is certainly more than the stereotypical average rapper flaunting money, women, jewelry, and cars; all of which he probably doesn’t have. Hip-hop perhaps has a darker sinister side that goes unrecognizable by its fans. The darker side of hip-hop openly objects Christ and his beliefs. After all, KRS One proclaims that we should “…stop calling out the name of Jesus. Be Jesus.”

Rap, according to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, is “to talk freely or frankly; to perform rap music.” Simply put, rap is poetry that is skillfully spoken at a speed that complements the rhythm of a song.

-- Joy Brown

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Is the culture of hip-hop sinister? Is the culture of hip-hop sinister?

Joy BrownSpecial to the RMR


The Reality CheckJasmine ‘Shorti Love’ Rutledge

There always comes a time of the year when the streets of uptown Charlotte are overly congested with some of the most expensive automobiles and people dressed to their finest abilities. Every upscale venue, whether it is a hotel or res-taurant, has been converted into a party spot and celebrities are spotted on almost every corner.

For just one weekend, Charlotte be-comes a miniature New York City, a city that never sleeps. It’s CIAA.

Since 2006, spectators from around the country have traveled to Charlotte, N.C. for the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) basketball tournament. Although the tournament lasts for an entire week, it is the weekend that attracts a crowd of well over 180,000.

The basketball tournament itself is not what generally attracts people, but the festivities associated with it instead; including everything from parties and concerts to step shows and health or educational seminars. CIAA is pretty much a big deal, even for celebrities that

enjoy making appearances to some of the hottest events in town.

From booking expensive flights and reserving hotel rooms with jacked-up rates to buying new high-priced out-fits and purchasing over priced tickets to parties and concerts, people spend hundreds, even thousands (let’s not forget the alcohol and gas prices) of dollars to ensure their CIAA experience is worth-while.

So, while people are out blowing mon-ey on preparation and accommodation, the city of Charlotte gladly accepts all of our contributions. In fact, they probably anticipate the CIAA tournament just as much as everyone else because of the large impact it has on the economy.

According to the CIAA website, the tournament generated over $214 million for the state of North Carolina since the year 2000. Last year, it generated $38.2 million in revenue in the surrounding areas of Charlotte alone.

Initially, I thought this year’s CIAA tournament was going to be one of the

weakest to come. Especially after the numerous threats by a certain group of Charlotte-area African-Americans to boycott the tournament as a reaction to the school board’s decision to have school on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Obvi-ously, talk is cheap.

Last week was the fifth time the tour-nament was held in Charlotte and hotel bookings were up by 10 percent com-pared to last year. I guess some people refuse to pass up a good time to prove a point.

Fred ‘Fresh’ Johnson, a Charlotte-area party promoter for So Fresh Entertain-ment, said that he was most impressed with the way that the CIAA weekend unites black people of all backgrounds and ages.

However, I read in an article online that Tim Newman, the head of the Char-lotte Regional Visitors Authority, told Eyewitness News that CIAA has nothing to do with race for the city of Charlotte. It’s all about the amount of money they can generate from it.

“CIAA is not black. It’s not white. It’s green. We are trying to infuse as much money as we can into the economy,” he said.

Calculations have not yet been final-ized but experts predict at least $40 million in spending (a 10-15 percent increase), despite the threats to boycott CIAA, and the fact that unemployment is still at a high.

“So, while people are out blowing money on preparation and accommodation, the city of Charlotte gladly accepts all of our contributions.”

CIAA: Not just about race but revenue

Although the tournament lasts for an entire week, it is the weekend that attracts a crowd of well over 180,000.

“”- Jasmine Rutledge

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Reality shows were once the underdog in comparison to all the other shows that came on television until MTV’s “The Real World” became popular in the late 1990s.

It became an epidemic. “The Real World” caught its viewer’s attention by providing them with weekly drama and promises of altercations caught on tape and America loved it.

Soon, every network began trying to create their own version of the reality show. “The Real World” opened the door for MTV to later create its hit show “Jersey Shore” and BET to create its phenomenon “College Hill,” both shows depicted life for people of a specific race.

People often get offended when someone says something stereotypical about their race, but they are not taking into consideration that we continue to support reality shows that convey these misconceptions.

In today’s world, we are all considered equal and should all be treated with respect without there being any stereotypes placed upon us, but that doesn’t stop it from happening.

We should all be capable of accepting diversity and shouldn’t judge someone because of their ethnicity. Shows such as “Jersey Shore,” “Laguna Beach” and “College Hill,” however, make that concept harder to grasp. These reality series claim that they depict the real lives

of the characters that are apart of them. But do they really?

“Jersey Shore” is an attention-catching, moneymaking show that has taken over the airways. It is a risky show but it is also a hit, so why wouldn’t MTV endorse them and continue to sell the brand that has gotten them thus far? These overnight celebrities have emerged from their basic everyday lives to being well known all around the country in just a few months.

They are not trying to become anyone’s definition of a role model, but unknowingly are. Our younger generations are watching shows like “Jersey Shore” that gives them false hope that they can one day grow up and be like these people.

“Jersey Shore” presents to today’s children the idea that they don’t need to go to school if they want to become successful in the real world. “Jersey Shore” displays to today’s children that life can be as simple as what they watch weekly on their television screen.

The cast of “Jersey Shore” is young and is entitled to enjoy their youth, but as they bask in their early success, they are unknowingly representing their race for the world to see. They consistently refer to themselves as Guidos, which are tight shirt wearing men who are obsessed with grooming themselves, and as Guidettes, which are female’s that are obsessed with plastic surgery and their body image. Many would agree that this is not a great way to present oneself to other races.

Many African-Americans would say the same about “College Hill” and how it portrays African- Americans as people who drink alcohol frequently, swear uncontrollably, and fight occasionally. When I asked fellow students if they had the chance, would they still partake in being a part of a reality series? They said, “Yes”.

Freshmen, biology major Courtney Provard stated that “College Hill and Jersey Shore are similar because they both focus on a particular demographic and are usually the root to many assumptions about people of certain descents. But at least with College Hill, the cast were in school.”

Even though they both contribute to races being judged on their actions, “College Hill” does cast students with aspirations of one day bettering themselves.

I interviewed Daisy Burroughs a freshman, math major, who said that “Jersey Shore is a waste of time. They are nothing but fakes who put on a show for the camera every day. If they deserve a show, everyone in America deserves a show.”

Ignorant acts seen on Jersey Shore like going to work drunk and spending nights in jail, have built the cast an audience.

Over 4.8 billion people have already tuned in this season and the numbers are continuing to rise each week. America loves them just the way they are, whether it is the real them or they are just putting

on a facade for the camera, so I can understand why they would not try to change anything.

STEREOTYPES‘JERSEY SHORE’ ONLYENABLES STEREOTYPESStars on reality shows are misrepresentingrace, sex, gives younger viewers false hope

People often get offended when someone says something stereotypical about their race

Katra Cunningham

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Katra CunninghamStaff Writer

The Roddey-McMillan Record Specializing In Diversity Since 1986 P. 10 • January 2011

Top Spring Break Spots

10ith exams projects and all the class assignments the excitement of Spring Break leaves all college students ready for a break. Many may catch up on some rest, travel home or attend a vacation spot with some sun. Spring Break

is a time to relax, unwind, and definitely travel with your friends! According to MS-NBC , here are the top 10 spots some college students will be visiting in 2011.

W

Compiled by Billie Jean Shaw

1) Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

2) Cancun, Mexico

3) Montego Bay, Jamaica

4) Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

5) South Padre Island, Texas

6)San Diego, California

7)Miami, Florida

8) Panama City Beach, Florida

9) Orlando, Florida

10) Montreal, Quebec Canada


Redefining love Chelsea BrownStaff Writer

Love in the black community is something we’ve heard of, but rarely seen. With violent and negative news within black communities, it’s hard to believe that true and pure love actually exists.

With stories of deadbeat fathers and unwed mothers, many of the percep-tions of love in the black community are negative. At Winthrop University the opinions of black love vary. Katra Cunningham, freshman integrated marketing communication major agrees.

“There hasn’t been a truly good representation of black love. It’s either the men are seen as drug dealers, gang members or neglecting fathers, or the women are seen as bitter, single moth-ers.”

Television shows have shown vari-ous degrees of black love. Shows such as “The Game” show constant drama, money and career issues altering and ending relationships. Black Entertain-ment Television’s new sitcom, “Let’s Stay Together,” profiles young, happy, loving and career driven couples in Atlanta.

While these shows are popular and well known, they can also confuse viewers and misrepresent what love, especially what black love, is. Cunning-ham believes that the “good” represen-tations of loving black couples stem from older shows.

“Shows like Good Times helped to portray a strong sense of black love. Even though Florida and James lived in the ghetto, they still loved one another

unconditionally, and raised their chil-dren together.”

In Hollywood, black celebrities rep-resent to the world what the concept of black love is. Rap star T.I.P. (T.I.) Harris and his wife Tiny’s relationship has received criticism. The couple had been dating for several years without marriage. Together they had several children and Tiny stood by T.I. during his public cheating and jail sentences.

The feelings about the two were mixed. While some believed that Tiny represented a very loyal or “ride- or- die” girlfriend, others found her commitment to T.I. ridiculous. The portrayal of black love has become misconstrued with the unconditional loyalty from the woman.

On the website, Brown Sista, blog-ger and writer L.J. Knight discusses T.I’s situation and the premise of black love.

“(Black love is) A woman that stood by your side when others were against you” she said.

“A woman that was there to pick up half of the weight of life when it became too much for the man to carry alone.”

She continues with the definition of a “ride- or- die” girlfriend: “I never knew that included in the definition of a ride- or- die chick were the words: doormat, gullible, tolerable, and the most impressionable word of them all…. Suffering. Because for every new car, piece of jewelry, trip around the world, I’m sure there was a disappoint-ment, another woman, or some sort of slap in the face, literally or figuratively

to match.”T.I. and

Tiny aren’t the only celebrities in Hollywood to garner criticism for their definition of black love. Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston are in-famous–watching Whitney’s career go down in flames through addiction and issues with Bobby Brown.

Ike and Tina Turner—Tina staying with an abusive man for the love of her man.

“Black love is usually seen as the sacrifices that a woman must make—be it her pride, life, career, or goals—to accommodate her partner,” said Cora Caldwell, a freshman mass communi-cations major.

“I don’t think that that’s always the case. My parents have been together for more than twenty years, and the sacrifices that they make are for their children and are equal. I’ve seen black love, and it involves sacrifices on both sides of the fence” she said.

Yet, with all of these negative and criticized examples of black love, there are many positive ones that still exist. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King worked together as a team to help make King’s dreams come alive. Even more recently, America has been able to witness the revamp and re-evaluation of black love. Since Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008, it has been clear that the effect of their love has had upon black citizens in America.

In an MSNBC interview about the Obama’s and their love, Michael Perry, a librarian at Harlem’s Schomburg

Center for Research in Black Culture

said, “With such a high percentage of

black people unmarried, everyone

is looking for images of black love.”

With the constant, tasteful public displays of affection in the Obama marriage, black people are beginning to visually see what black love is from a higher authority. Solomon Eagles, a sophomore biology major agrees.

“I feel that Barack and Michelle Obama’s relationship does show a solid foundation of what black love should be,” Eagles said.

Even though many are skepti-cal of how “real” the love is, it’s still there. “With the Obama’s authority, we may never see the difficult side of their marriage, but they do set a solid foundation for the black community, showing what black love is and should be,” Eagles said.

Just a few weeks after the month love and black history, remember the upside of love portrayed in the media. While love is color blind, love in the black community is beginning to take on a new meaning. Eagles believes that love is love—no matter what color.

“Black love to me is just as equal as any other race’s love. Love to me is when you have similar feelings towards a person that they have towards you. It’s about a connection and bond,” he said.


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