Javon Johnson - Debt
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Javon Johnson, performing at Camp Bar in Saint Paul, MN.
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He teaches at my school and I bumped into him and was lowkey star struck LOL
What school?
I need to transfer
U lucky
What school?
Everybody tryna figure out what school he teaches at LOL!!!!
"Some days, I feel like a wolf in sheep clothing,
or better,
I feel like a Sheppard leading his flock to slaughter,
I teach classes on structural racism,
and gender equality
in a system that is more willing to punish its students for Plagiarism,
than it is for sexual assault!" -Javon Johnson
POWERFUL POEM!
"When tuition is steadily rising and starting salaries are dropping, degrees become no different than a designer bag: a cheap fashion statement not even worth a trip to the mall. No one ever tells you that you have to drown in debt in hopes of making it to the shore. That the loan system is a lot like Alcatraz, like Rikers Island. We're getting screwed! While the guards don't even have the decency to pretend to look the other way. The only difference between student debtors and prisoners is that students are taught to think that they're on the outside of the bars. What world do we live in?"
P R E A C H!
Javon, never stop, never ever stop writing.
"A society that punishes it's students more for plagarism than it does sexual assault" 👏👏👏👏 you are right, and it is not okay
He always brings it!
"...Us being here is a revolutionary act."
MY MANS JAVON CAME THROUGH AGAIN
SAME!
he honestly has my heart
I love Javon Johnson he is awesome! His words never fail to get me fired up for anything!
Jfc
If Johnny left Kansas going 90 miles an hour with 170,000 dollars in debt, how much longer will it take for us to realize that if he actually burned basketballs on a roof, it would still make so much more sense than all of this.
Once again... i love him and he gets all of us teachers!
Javon Johnson's poems blow me away every time without fail.
This is the truth. I'm glad you said it. Some people are niave on these issues. Amen. It ain't called growing pains for nothing. You're right.
HE KNOWS WHAT'S UP!
I. LOVE. THIS.
i have no words.
Glad you enjoyed it!
JAVON IS A KING I ADORE HIS WRITING
I'm a simple woman. I see Javon Johnson in my inbox, I immediately like and save for a rainy day. Always given me the chills.
this woke me up...I swear the only way to wake up is to their voices.
Beautiful as always
AMAZING!!! GOD BLESS THIS WRITER/POET BECAUSE HE IS MY INSPIRATION
yes, just fucking yes. word award given.
Such powerful words. I'm in tears. Thank you for your presence and inspiration.
I LOVE JAVON JOHNSON YES IM SO EXCITED
Rudy Francisco reference. I appreciate that
I missed it, would you mind pointing me to the line?
Which line
Love all his poems!!!
the truth has been spoken people
Damn, I didn't want it to end!
all his poems get me, he's so great
I was not disappointed holy fuck favorite poet right here
He never ever disappoints
this hit home
This is the kind of stuff my High School Band Director teaches us. Because no one else at my school gave a damn enough to.
Preach it! Teach it!
Standing up!!! You're words rang so loud & clear for me!
This guy opens his mouth and genius spills out. It's baffling.
Beautiful and so inspiring.
Damn.
Always so good!!
Love it!
I'd love to have him as a Professor!
This is amazing.
As a recent college graduate, thank you SO much for this 🥺🙌🏾
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Thank you for that!
YES SIR!
I really love these poems, but I'm hard of hearing and I wish you guys would have closed captions, because that would help me appreciate the poetry better.
I am too. I've had to miss out on pieces due to the lack of captioning.
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I also would appreciate this. I use the automatic captioning but there are times the automatic captioning cannot understand what is being said. That makes it literally impossible to comprehend some of the poems
YES!!!! Yes yes yes yes !!!
YASSSS JAVON - tell it again for the people in the back!!
That Biggie line gave me goosebumps... Damn, what a poem
"it ain't called growing pains for nothing"
Love the ending
amazing!
Too real you gotta fucking clap and not snap.
Dang that truth tho
yess my man!🔥🔥🔥
the final killed me
It isn’t like student loan debt is a surprise, though. Not only is everyone talking about it, you literally have to sign for the loans so you know exactly how much you have to pay back.
"A system that is more willing to punish its students for plagiarism than it is for sexual assault" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THATS FACTS
Such fucken passion
And there you have it... #facts
OH MY GOD
Its a good poem and a great performance. Of course it's from 2017
I would just love to have one conversation with this man and I will be happy.
Jasmine Zepeda omg yessss!!!! I’ve seen him in small interviews and he is TREMENDOUSLY smart! Omg I just need one conversation with him tho!
Yessss favorite poet!!!!! U better speak. Lol
Lil Debbie 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤘🏾
Amen #mymom
🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
A- FREAKIN'- MEN!!!!
Please Open Transcripts For All The Button Poetry, Old New & Forthcoming, For Those Of Us Who Are Visual And Hard Of Hearing.
Please And Thank you ❤
Come to Denmark, that would be Awesome ;)
Holy shit balls 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
holy shit
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I wish he was my teacher
hell mf yeah
Fucking brilliant!
powerful as fuck
i fucking freeeking loved id
can someone tell me in what university he teaches!?!cause I need to apply there
In a system that is more willing to punish it's students for plagiarism than for sexual assalt💥
HOOOOLY SHIT
BOI!
Man I went to a 2 year tech school and with 8 Thomas Sowell books under my belt I am fairly confidant I could best a critical race theory professor in an honest debate.
The problem would be finding citations outside of those books lol.... Sowell had Harvard researchers, I have google.
It also helps that I have read X Kennedy and checked out some Carmichael, so I know a little about the counter argument.
LAY’N DOWN THE LAW
As a college student...I rather sit on top a rooftop watching basketballs burn than watching my hard earn money to burn in vain too.
Anyone know where I can get a written version of this? I want to use it for an assignment but I need a printable version to analyze/handout
@beauty gama
Honestly it depends on the degree. We are taught as a society to avoid hard working jobs like constructions, contracting, etc... but those jobs pay the most and always need people. But everyone’s going to school for literature, teaching, etc... I kindly disagree with you.