Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coming on stage wearing a beret and carrying a loaf of bread. He immediately dashed both to the ground, grabbing instead a microphone and starting to rap. His implicit statement: yes, berets and French bread define one part of my heritage, but don't think that you completely "understand" my sense of identity or me. Rather, he chose to show us the influence that hip-hop music and culture have had on his identity. If other performers were attempting to make similar theoretical maneuvers, the show didn't provide us with enough context to understand them...
...enjoyable as the show was, students were the losers Saturday. The real winners were the University administrators who've duped us all (perhaps even themselves) into thinking that they actually understand the real issues involved in the word "diversity." Let's remind them of what really matters...
...coming on stage wearing a beret and carrying a loaf of bread. He immediately dashed both to the ground, grabbing instead a microphone and starting to rap. His implicit statement: yes, berets and French bread define one part of my heritage, but don't think that you completely "understand" my sense of identity or me. Rather, he chose to show us the influence that hip-hop music and culture have had on his identity. If other performers were attempting to make similar theoretical maneuvers, the show didn't provide us with enough context to understand them...
...enjoyable as the show was, students were the losers Saturday. The real winners were the University administrators who've duped us all (perhaps even themselves) into thinking that they actually understand the real issues involved in the word "diversity." Let's remind them of what really matters...
...agree with it, but I understand why it had to be done. I'm not fighting it," Powers said. "You can't go half way with these things...