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Chicago native and rapper Lupe Fiasco delivered a captivating keynote speech to dozens of young, black men who recently graduated from area’s high schools yesterday (Saturday June 29,2013). According to reports, Fiasco began his speech with a hard dose of reality in his words stating,… “Congratulations, you have graduated from one of the most terrible, substandard school systems in the entire world. You have just spent the last . . . 12 years receiving one of the worst educations on earth. You are at least four, five steps behind people in other countries that are younger than you.”
Organizers labeled the event a Mass Black Male Graduation and Transition to Manhood ceremony. Distinguished “elders” joined in the ceremony — among them doctors, lawyers, businessmen and politicians. The rapper also pledged $100 for each of the 150 area graduates who attended the event, organizers said.
Lupe’s keynote speech was well received by the students, peppered cheers and applause came from the students and the crowd of family and friends as Fiasco captivated the room. Lupe also made it a point to inform the graduates that their achievement weren’t as impressive as it was made out to be, encouraging the teens to focus on their future, instead… He went on to say,… “Transition to manhood is the most important thing that’s going on right now. The caps and the gowns and your tassels and your honorary blah blah blahs don’t mean nothing. That’s just dress. That’s just some clothes. Meaningless clothes, too, because they have no real purpose in life. They don’t keep you warm. What do they do? They just represent to someone else that you’ve achieved something. But then when you look back at it, what have you achieved?”
Shoutout to the 2013 Graduates of that class, Lupe Fiasco, and all the family, friends, and staff it took to make their process successful.
Click here to read more from source>>> Chicago Sun-Times.
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Good for Lupe to keep it 100 and still be uplifting! We really need more of that as opposed to allowing our generations to come be blinded by the subliminal seduction and business of blinding us with ceremonies and not allowing us an opportunity after the ceremony ends. Where’s the reward if you say I’ve done well yet won’t allow me to work in the average unskilled work environment.