Jackie Peace And Skeet Comparative Essay

Jackie Peace and Robert “Skeet” Douglas were the parents of Robert DeShaun Peace. They both wanted the best for their child but they had very different visions of how and what was important towards his education. Jackie enjoyed reading with Robert and Skeet on the other hand believed that by reading he Robert wasn’t being prepared for life. “A child, specially a boy, needed to be out and about, around real people, growing skin.” (Jeff Hobbs, pg. 15) Hip-Hop culture impacted Robert, he became an aggressive person and unafraid of anything. Jackie and Skeet didn’t live together, therefore sometimes Skeet would take Robert for a ride around town. When he returned to Jackie’s home Robert would suddenly recite rhymes from Skeet’s car like “Go, Dog, Go!” or when Jackie was trying to put him to sleep while reading a book to him Robert would be singing himself to sleep with Grandmaster Flash and the Fabulous Five lyrics. Skeet introduced Robert to the music with his rides through town, and like Dr. Moore music is a reflection of the culture. According to Dr. Moore there is five things present in Hip-Hop culture: instant gratification, materialism, anti-intellectualism, violence and misogyny. Skeet saw his son being bullied by another child on the playground, but Jackie saw …show more content…
Robert wasn’t afraid. “So they knew about his dealing, and the fact that he’d received a formal letter rather than an email suggested that they meant business.” (Jeff Hobbs, pg.174) Even though he could have been expelled Robert went in there and said nothing but the truth. Yes, yes, and yes to everything but the school didn’t do much because it would look bad for someone like Robert to go “down like that.” They only elevated his “growing air of untouchability.” Robert now knew that the school didn’t want anything to do with