Comments on: Ode To Cho - Virginia Tech’s Nikki Giovanni’s Poem

By: Dora itzel(mexican)

Dora itzel(mexican) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:42:08 +0000

this is good but sad at the same time
even do i like it it depreses me knowing on what we live today
this is the sad true but we the people that are out of the game
dont know what to do…..
if we stay silence our friend/family will die
or if we talk they will kill us!!

By: Steveonkey

Steveonkey — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:07:57 +0000

ALI G -Booyakasha, chek i’ out. I is here wif my main man, Nikki G, my bro from Staines. How is you become poet?
NIKKI G- We’re communicators, it’s in our blood.
ALI G: Blood, West Side. Now sis, you, I mean, sorry you is my bro now, you is get some edumacation. You went to America, right?
NIKKI G: I went to Fisk.
ALI G: Tell me about how you is expelled for crack…
NIKKI G: It wasn’t for smoking crack. I started at Fisk in 1960, was soon expelled, and later returned and graduated in 1968. I did enroll and quickly drop out of two graduate schools after that but I did complete that one degree, my bachelor’s degree.
ALI G: Wha’eve. You is still my main man. Now you has Tupac Shukar tattoo, right? Can I see that?
NIKKI G: Yes, I have said I would rather be with the street thugs than with the ones who complain about them.
ALI G: Now is you believe Tupac’s criminal record make him a better rap artist?
NIKKI G: Well, I don’t know about that, but…
ALI G: I like that poem you wrote about nigger can you kill, can you stab a jew, and you draw blood, can you kill a honkie. Ain’t that a rap!
NIKKI G: You’re talking about my poem “The True Import Of Present Dialogue, Black vs. Negro.” I wrote that a long time ago.
ALI G: But can’t you make a rap out of that? You is get the whole crowd to stand up at Virginia Tech with that one.
NIKKI G: No, that was my new poem We Are Virginia Tech.
ALI G: Wha’eve. That was my one an’ only main man, Nikki G, my big bro and big time poet, big shout out for Nikki G from VT.

By: E. W. Clough

E. W. Clough — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:43:33 +0000

It is intellectuals like Giovanni who are the creators of all the “Chos” in the world. Cho was not mentally ill, he was ideologically trained and justified by such as Giovanni. Her poem attempts to deflect the blame from herself.
Frankentstein’s monster had the good sense to turn on it’s master. Cho, not so much.

By: Lori Smith

Lori Smith — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:32:38 +0000

We must educate ourselves about mental illness. Please visit the Mental Health Association of Maryland’s site, http://www.mhamd.org.

By: Talibah Nafuna

Talibah Nafuna — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:29:25 +0000

I applaud Professor Giovanni for her courage in the wake of one national tragedy. If we can give a name to “acts of God” tragedies…then the devastation caused by any human also bears remembering. You are probably very comfortable saying “9-eleven”, or “Columbine”, as you are saying “Katrina”. When you have stood bravely in the face of personal tragedy, then and only then, will you glean an understanding of another’s sorrow. Until such time…well, I suggest you think before you write (share) your opinion. Thanks for the platform.

By: Keri Jones

Keri Jones — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:41:28 +0000

Me personally i dont think it is cause we are all humans but he was a human with mental issues and other stuff!!!!
Yes he was most definitely wrong for what he did and now he’s paying for it in the lake of fire !!!!!!!!!
So everyone mite as well celebrate the GREAT lives of his victims!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!