Why USC and Not A Black College, Dr. Dre?


unknown1 said:
This is still dumb logic. It's the metro area where he grew up and lived and probably went to games....his daughter also went to school there. This is like asking why didn't he give to Nebraska instead, maybe because he had absolutely zero ties to the school?
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IMO, he would have did more justice if he would have given the money to the City of Compton, since at one time the City of Compton were force to pass an ordinance to stop rap music videos from being filmed within the borders of Compton. Compton's officials saw rap music videos giving Compton an image of being the most dangerous place on earth, which it is definitely not, since I've personally spent a significant amount of time in Compton. The fraternity chapter I pledged was founded in Compton. Most of the founding members of my chapter, if not all graduated from HBCUs.
 
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jstate83 said:
So you saying black people are so dumb, they let a music video destroy entire communities? :lol:

I call bullshat.
Music videos didn't have shat to do with what was already going on decades before gangsta rap came along. These gangbangers was already killing themselves in record clips and whenever the police came in to do something, those same people would PROTEST THE POLICE along side the gangbabgers.

If Dan Quale was so into removing all violence from the air-waves because it caused people to kill each other, then why didn't he go after the Terminator and all the ultra violent murder and rape movies Hollywood was putting out at the same exact time. :smh:
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You need to stop with the backwards interpretation. I know you read better than that.
 



chocalate_topaz said:
My thoughts:

1. Yes, its his money and he ultimately did what he wanted and isn't living under a rock
2. BUT when he was with NWA...he seemed to understand the repression of "his" people from the top; to the bottom, right? He knew AAs were basically the "hunted"....and amazingly, somehow as he got older and made more money, he ah....forgot? :smh: Just completely forgot that AAs have less resources, more repression, stopped wondering why big corps didn't help the hood...and when his turn up to the plate came....he helped the good white folks. :smh:


Follow folks ACTIONS...that tells you the truth about the person. If you got an NWA album or record, you ought to smash the shit out of it right now... just saying. Y'all can give all the passes you want...but when we got it and can help ourselves and our own...we somehow don't. YOu mean to tell me, that dude couldn't have given 10 million to at least one HBCU? Well...maybe I"m being premature and he plans to give another 70 million to an HBCU in the future.
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chocalate_topaz said:
I get your poised answer...but the bottom line for me...when Dr.Dre was rapping with NWA he was in "touch" and could speak on the societal ills of AAs countrywide/globally...but when he gives his money, he gets dumb to those who need his assistance the most. He wants his legacy to be remembered by a school with few black students...so he wants to be remembered and immortalized by white folks...I can't change his mind...but I don't give him a pass in mine either. To each his own...
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Very good point CT, and I think you made the very same point Dr. Kimbrough was thinking because the article goes on to say this.......





A hip-hop icon is now the new black higher-ed philanthropy king. We've never seen a donation to rival this from any black celebrity — musician, athlete or actor — and that fact must be celebrated.

But as the president of a black college, it pains me as well. I can't help but wish that Dre's wealth, generated as it was by his largely black hip-hop fans, was coming back to support that community.

USC is a great institution, no question. But it has a $3.5-billion endowment, the 21st largest in the nation and much more than every black college — combined. Less than 20% of USC's student body qualifies for federal Pell Grants, given to students from low-income families, compared with two-thirds of those enrolled at black colleges. USC has also seen a steady decrease in black student enrollment, which is now below 5%.

A new report on black male athletes and racial inequities shows that only 2.2% of USC undergrads are black men, compared with 56% of its football and basketball teams, one of the largest disparities in the nation. And given USC's $45,602 tuition next year, I'm confident Dre could have sponsored multiple full-ride scholarships to private black colleges for the cost of one at USC.

Maybe some suspect that a historically black college or university would not have the breadth or depth of expertise on its faculty to spearhead an innovative academy. Nothing could be further from the truth.

This future Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation is to be multidisciplinary, with a technology focus. In 2011, the National Science Foundation noted that black colleges are a major source of scientists and engineers. In fact, the top five producers of blacks who go on to earn science, technology, engineering and math graduate degrees are black colleges, as are 20 of the top 50. Once you add in the musical legacy of black colleges' choirs and marching bands, they are the perfect locations for an academy like this.

In the end, though, this is his money, and endowing a program geographically nearby, where he can have ongoing input and contact, makes sense. I do hope it will recruit and enroll a diverse class of students and not become some enclave for the already privileged student body there.
 
JAG89 said:
You need to stop with the backwards interpretation. I know you read better than that.
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I say again.
The only thing Dan Quale did was pander to the Regan Voters by putting a black face to anything gone wrong in America. That same year, they put Ice-T right beside them. What is more wrong than putting black rappers from the ghetto, front and center during that time. He didn't even have to work hard to scare the shat out of white people with that back then.
 
jstate83 said:
I say again.
The only thing Dan Quale did was pander to the Regan Voters by putting a black face to anything gone wrong in America. That same year, they put Ice-T right beside them. What is more wrong than putting black rappers from the ghetto, front and center during that time. He didn't even have to work hard to scare the shat out of white people with that back then.
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But what you typed made it seems like I said gangsta rap was the reason why the Black community was/is being destroyed, which I didn't not say. All I said, the Black community should have let gangsta rap died after Dan Quayle came out against it. The other information I typed was how others felt about it.
 
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JAG89 said:
But what you typed made it seems like I said gangsta rap was the reason why the Black community was/is being destroyed, which I didn't not say. All I said, the Black community should have let gangsta rap died after Dan Quayle came out against it. The other information I typed was how others felt about it.
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Actually I was reading Cees post and then I read your post.
I started answering both comments together. I was intending to "bookmark" both post in the same response.
 
I see no problem with Dre' giving money to USC. As others have pointed out, he has zero connection to an HBCU. USC is what he has known his whole life. This is all about business for him. He is investing in a school that he wants to help grow his business by providing a highly trained workforce.
 
cat daddy said:
I see no problem with Dre' giving money to USC. As others have pointed out, he has zero connection to an HBCU. USC is what he has known his whole life. This is all about business for him. He is investing in a school that he wants to help grow his business by providing a highly trained workforce.
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There it is.
 
jstate83 said:
Won't be the last either.
If Snoop Dogg's oldest son takes the schollie offer from UCLA, guess what school will be getting big checks. :lol:
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Hell Diddy's son is already there at UCLA with Jerry Rice's son. LOL.
 



While I agree that Dre and the others have a right to do what they would like with their money, I think you folks are kidding yourselves and telling yourself a lie if you think these rappers or the music industry don't owe our schools and community something. It was our schools that these rappers shot videos, the black greeks in their videos, homecomings and other things to get the rap game pumping back in the 80's and early 90's. Yes, they owe us and they owe us big time. I know many of you think you are high suburban type folks now, but don't be naive.
 
jstate83 said:
:lol:
Negros at the top of the Alumni food chain would have been protesting in the streets if one of our Presidents went to him for a donation. Black womens groups would be burning bras. :lol:

Look at what happened at SPELLMAN when NELLY went there for a bone marrow drive for his sister. That shat was shameful they way they acted. Nelly has not set foot on another HBCU since. :lol:
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:emlaugh:
 
jsupop33 said:
Valley ruined that Rice relationship.
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I was wondering what happen......The only thing I knew about was a paltry $10,000.00 scholarship fund donation to all HBCU(s) along with a few other athletes that didn't directly go to MVSU back in the 90's.
 
It really amazes me how we as a people will discontinue our relationships with businesses in our community because of a wrong doing, yet we continue to pump millions heck sometimes billions of dollars into other businesses where we get done wrong. Department stores as Wal-marts, macy's, KFC, Burger King has messed over us, yet we still go there.
jsupop33 said:
Valley ruined that Rice relationship.
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JROCK said:
I would sure hate for our schools to have to return that 1.6 BILLLION grant back to Bill Gates because he is.......... :lol: :emlaugh:

http://www.theroot.com/views/what-n-uncf-stands-these-days
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WHITE!!! :lol:
Wonder why people don't ask why he didn't give it to M.I.T.
My bad............I keep forgetting that white people are free to give their money to anybody they choose. Black people are the only race that must give to black only causes and institutions. :lol:
 
CEE DOG said:
It really amazes me how we as a people will discontinue our relationships with businesses in our community because of a wrong doing, yet we continue to pump millions heck sometimes billions of dollars into other businesses where we get done wrong. Department stores as Wal-marts, macy's, KFC, Burger King has messed over us, yet we still go there.
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+1...they remember black wrongs F A' E V A...white wrongs...not even a good minute cause that's just the way it is...
 
gates has given to all races of schools....and that kind of proves the point of those who felt he could have given something to those disadvantaged schools TOO...with so much to give...the AAs of which you could not deny your heritage if you bought Sammy Sosa skin cream and slathered it on morning, noon and night and whose money you solicited... got..... well...left in the dirt.

AAs...we got some apologies, excuses and reasonings for ya ass...believe that.
 
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