Gabrielle Union: Education Is More Important Than Fame
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Gabrielle Union wants to teach her Twitter followers a lesson.
The 39-year-old actress, who earned a sociology degree from UCLA, expressed her disappointment in people who value fame over education in a series of tweets Thursday.
"When a parent can tell me their child's fave basketball player/rapper/actor but doesn't know the name of their kids teacher, [I feel] rage," Union wrote. "It's great your kid wants to model, but is she a model student? We've gotta get serious about education!"
The actress, who's been dating NBA player Dwyane Wade for nearly three years, added that "you can't blame the kids if the adults are the ones distracted from what's truly important. Education is key!"
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Union, who next appears in Tyler Perry's Good Deeds, also reminded her Twitter followers that "looks fade, money runs dry and fame leaves" but "education is forever."
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40Very smart woman.
yes she is rt, what more can be said, thank god someone cares.
I agree 100%. Education is something no one can take away from you. I grew up in a family where education and community service was valued just as highly as sports. I tutor as a volunteer with my church. There is nothing more joyful than to see a young person grab an idea and excel in it. College may not be for everyone, however, after high school pursue some type of higher learning or trade which will enable you to provide for yourself and family. Some of the best paying professions are not your glamorous ones. Everyone is not going to be a well respected actor/actress or professional sportsplayer. Thank you Gabrielle for speaking out without putting other people down.
Says the Actress that just dropped a quarter million on a car as a gift to her Basketball star.... give me a break. As far as a Sociology degree is concerned, big WHOOP. That is one of the most useless degrees out there, call me when she gets a degree in Bioengineering or something that will actually be worth something. So sick of the filthy rich telling us peasants and commoners how to live our lives. Look at their paycheck and look at yours... now tell me why kids wouldn't want to be like them rather than a regular person with a sociology degree?
This woman just screams level headed class act every time I read anything about her. Here is just another example!
@walter robertson...if she didn't have what she has she would have her degree/educatoin to "fall back" on. If you move to LA out of high school to become an actress and wait tables in the mean time...when you finally realize its not gonna happen all you are is a waiter. GO TO SCHOOL is all she is saying and encourage it in our youth. If they can make it big then more power to them, and if not they can still get a descent job and make a normal living. Making 27 dollars one day and 100 the next and 12 the next as a server is no way to live.
I agree and I feel she is speaking to everyone who puts material things above education, in our community it is a really big problem and i'm glad celebrities who have power are standing up....In the black community, especially when the media makes people like K. Kardash and Amber R. celebrities making it seem as if these people are role models someone the kids can be like, thats wack, ????......Pause
I absolutely agree on this. There is really a problem there. But of course it does start in the home. It's not about the fame,fortune or anything of that sort. Education is a fundamental tool that is needed and this is the primary focus. How do you expec t to sign a payroll check if you cannot understand what is on it. Besides my normal 9-5 I've had the great pleasure of substitute teaching for the past few years and this really made me realize that there are many kids (high school level included) who are unable to read, do simple mathematics and so forth. But the bottom line is that there has to be more involvement in the home to encourage these kids that their education "IS" extremely important.
@ Walter Robertson: True, she may "lay with" a basketball player; however, that's irrelevant. And true, she may have done some provocative spreads; again, irrelevant. The point is, she earned her degree, and recognizes its importance relative to the eventual dissipation of desirable physical features and waning of fame.
I totally agree with her but to walter robertson i think u missed the whole point of what the sister said.
She is right a good education is better then gold . I am 65 an still learning parents get behind your kids about there education .
Odd she feels rage about basketball players being know when she lays with one.I guess her "education"helped her with those racy Maxims photos.Its good she has an education because at 39 her eye candy roles will soon dry up.
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...that's especially for you..hopes will always be regarded to youth!
...that's especially for you..hopes will always be regarded to youth!
Ms. Gabrielle undoubtedly wants to remind us specially the young minds that education is the wealth we can keep until the end..we must keep on learning and improve our education as we age.
I agree with U Ms. Union! My mother went back to school in her late 40's. Then I her oldest woman child followed in those steps and received my degree as well. Black Girls Rock!!!
She's 39?! Oh yeah...no matter what they can't take your education from you.
She picked a great example of what the parent know and don't know about their kids. Trouble is that most kids instinctively try to emulate their parents or parental symbols, and if the people the kids are emulating value money and fame over knowledge and wisdom the kids will copy that.
Education is important because it is what you have earn. A degree is something no one can claim as their, only you can make claim to it.