{"product_id":"2940015718362","title":"American Black History","description":"How many times have adults heard from teens, what do I need to learn History for that happened a long time ago? Well, this book not only answers that question but makes the study of Black History fun,exciting and  connects the student with the Black historical experience. Below is a chapter from \"American Black History,\"titled Lost In The Crowd\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLost in the Crowd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere’s your confession, you punked out for depression\u003cbr\u003eDrul’n over the Ferrari, so you swim’n in Bacardi\u003cbr\u003eBut gotta stay razor sharp like a knife\u003cbr\u003eYou know you like Rick James and Busta Rhymes, \u003cbr\u003eTalk’n about that ghetto life\u003cbr\u003eSo you drink up blaze up do what gotta do to keep your head up\u003cbr\u003eBoy’s medicine keep you fool’n a prisoner, a mental illusion\u003cbr\u003eCan’t be physically emancipated while mentally constipated\u003cbr\u003eLittle child running wild always going with the crowd\u003cbr\u003eTell’n yah what yah need to hear\u003cbr\u003eThink’n is sloppy, go to Kinkos and be a carbon copy\u003cbr\u003eWho’s gonna take a stand and be their own man\u003cbr\u003eBoys can’t see through the looking glass\u003cbr\u003eA snake in the grass food for thought\u003cbr\u003eWords controlling thought always talking about who fought\u003cbr\u003eCould turn out to be cold blooded murder\u003cbr\u003eAll based on hearsay \u003cbr\u003eSnake on the other side of town sipp’n on Hennessey \u003cbr\u003eLike dark forces gett’n fed with hot led\u003cbr\u003eTrue focus no hocus pocus for the man’s mind\u003cbr\u003eBut was my fresh rhyme too much for the juvenile mind\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Wise Spoken Words Survival Course \/Lost In the Crowd  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Try to figure out who the snake in the grass is.\u003cbr\u003eAnswer: The snake in the grass is a guy who does not like two other guys.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Can you figure out what these lines mean: Words controlling thought, always talking about who fought. \u003cbr\u003eAnswer: These lines mean that the snake in the grass decides to spread gossip about the guys who he does not like. These false rumors have damaging information about both guys to make it appear that the guys started the rumors. Unfortunately these guys could kill each over something that neither one of them said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3.  Snake on the other side of town sipping on Hennessey. What does the mean?\u003cbr\u003eAnswer: This means that while the two guys are ready to fight or kill each other; over something neither one of them said the snake in the grass is at a party on the other side of town having a ball a drinking Hennessey. \u003cbr\u003e4. Obliviously, the two guys are being controlled by their animal instincts. \u003cbr\u003eAnswer: The two men are trapped because they have allowed their anger to cloud their judgment and not get at the truth.","brand":"Herb Addison Burns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081119088880,"sku":"2940015718362","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015718362","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}