Special Day

My day for the most part went well. When I first woke up my sprit felt good. It’s just something about today that I felt good about. So I’m feeling good waiting for the bus to come so we can go to the Yallas High School. When we get there, we jump straight into our groups that we formed to do our documentary. One of the topics that Brother David was talking about was the book Black to the Roots. He was discussing what the author was saying and, how the big music companies were trying to take over the black owned independent companies. We were saying that when the black company first started out they needed to get known so all the big time artist could come and sign a contract with them. By the big companies doing all that the money is going to the big company and not the black independent and their artist are not getting the amount of money they want. Another thing the big company did was change the artist style up to negative because that’s the only thing people were listening to.

Then the other topic was the dances they do in Jamaica. Some of the dances they do are much similar to ours, but they are a little faster. Jamaicans believe that dances are a part of their life. When they dance it make them closer to god. They also believe that dancing brings their community together and it connects the youths with other youths because when a group battles another group they teach each other their dance moves after they finish battling. But their dance moves change up every week or so. Sometimes they see this as building up their community. The way we might do community building is we might have a block party.

Shyheim