Half-Caste by John Agard

[preachedantonio]

just had this shown to me by english teacher in english class, i was fucking lmfao the entire time XD

[Yugalrocks123]

@preachedantonio till when you got kicked out lol :D

[mrunclesi]

What's this guy got in his throat???

[MrTheFatGuy]

English to morro gl to mee woooo hope i pass

[CrackedUnderPressure]

Just had this English lesson today lol

[DjBooyaaChrist]

this is some babbling bullshit.. i cant believe they would teach this in english class... its a horrible poem with a "meaning" if you can interpret halfrican

[glamour3697]

My whole class was laughing for like the whole day we couldn't stop its damn funny lol well done half-caste hahhahahahahahah

[Ushiku89]

@glamour3697 this is still on the syllabus? It's been 6 years since I did GCSE's, I'm at Uni now.

Do they still have the Mother Tongue piece in the poetry anthology? Change Tongue to cock and read that poem, it's hilarious.

[jojotter]

@Ushiku89 Ha, I'll have to try that! I did GCSE 2 years ago and the Mother Tongue piece was still on the syllabus then.

[CrAzZyBoi76]

@glamour3697 Same lol i had it in english and my whole class was just laughing there heads off lol!!!

[19Lucy96]

thats actually quite scary.. :|

[LILliam2010]

thanks for this :), this will help for my english exam tomoz ;)

[jojotter]

@LILliam2010 GOOD LUCK!!!

[big92mac]

what time is it?

HAAAAAAAAAAALFF PAAAAAAAAAAAAST

[hawkmoth11]

Half the class understood this

[MGSFoxHoundSFG]

ah rass

[hkpthebest]

My class was laughing when we done this in English it was funny though still

[teabagluigi]

Hahaha, my whole class laughed when we played this in English, one even said he sounded like a pirate xD lmfao

[MrTulip01]

@teabagluigi your very disrespectful mate ,

[ramcin3]

thumbs up if your class was laughing

[ramcin3]

this poem is so shit and doesent make sense, why the fuck am i doing an exam on this i dont know.

[abbigail030398]

@ramcin3 try and read it again im in yr 8 nd were doing an exam on it 2mozz

[xxbubblewonderxx]

I love this because i can relate to it because i'm half cast. I have to say, i love this poem!

[xxbubblewonderxx]

I love this because i can relate to it because i'm half cast. I have to say, i love this poem!

[xxbubblewonderxx]

I love this because i can relate to it because i'm half cast. I have to say, i love this poem!

[RawringAtYouNoobs]

Just made a short dubstep remix of this (: Loool

[swilch]

@RawringAtYouNoobs lol upload it mate, i might promo it if its good XD

[MegerHexer]

we learnt about this poem in english

[amitchauhan1994]

he uses silly examples and humour through out the poem but he is getting a very serious message across

[marinaxmarika]

Omg. I'm doing this is english too. xD It was on the exam! I like dis' poem. :3

[warringtonlad06]

This poem is metophorical 'MecurialGaming' when he's saying look at you with half an eye or listen with half an ear it is a metaphor for how people have looked or listened to him in the past? They only see half of him!! The half-caste side!! Etc.

This is probably as far from a 'retarded poem' as you so polietly put t as you can be! I would highly reccommend that you learn to read between the lines instead of being one of the people he is talking about on this poem.

A half-caste man....

[MercurialGaming]

This poem is retarded. If I could speak to John Agard I would say; stop being such a whiney bitch, caste = culture, you're mixed race, right? Well I'm not saying you're half a person, you have two cultures, you have two halfs, two halfs = one whole, not one half, also you say listening with half of me ear well that's a quarter, since you have two ears.

[tuscanyiscol]

@MercurialGaming it took me about 5 minutes to decipher that, nott becuase what you had written was difficult to read, but becuase my mind refueses to accpet hat anybody could be so monumentally stupid.

Are you honestly saying that someone hasn't got a right to be offended by something? or that in some way fucking stupid maths makes sense of a poem protesting against a negative term used to describe people from mixed cultures?

you can't rationalise offence you fool.

[TheArbiterarby]

hes being racist himself, hes saying england is always rainy at 0:35

[pkfirex]

thats not rasict lol...the english weather does not represent a race.

[liam839rshelper]

he's not he is just demstrating what it was like 4 the half castes

[parksy1993]

this is such a gd poem i did it in my english lesson and my teacher played it on smart board this one and it is so gd i think his accent wot he has wen he is doin this poem is very gd and how he drags the halffff casteee love it

[ConorH570]

im gonna use this for my english lesson tomorrow (Y) thanks man itl really help me get my C grade :D

[jojotter]

Glad I could help! This video has helped so many people. I never expected this kind of success!

[deviloflife2008]

im learin this at skool lol

[metomars11]

@deviloflife2008 same xD

[3litepker]

Ah rass

[Darkwolfgirl107]

We had this in english and we were proper scared because it was sooo loud XD

[psychomantis108]

does anyone else think he sounds like a vortigaunt from half life 2?

[jojotter]

yeah, your right!

[100percentgr8]

me 2!!!!

[jessandjade9]

ahah when we first got showed this my english class couldnt stop laughig :')

[HorseshoesGirl11]

Yeah same LMAO!! xx

[MILFMILF221]

nt as good as the man himself

[jojotter]

Ha ha ha, don't be stupid! This IS the man himself. I just added the images for an english project. This is him!

[jojotter]

@MILFMILF221 This is the man himself!

[Radford401]

@jojotter Do you think were stupid :L this isnt John Agard?

[jojotter]

@Radford401 I didn't think you were stupid until you said that. This is John Agard! The sound is taken from a live performance he did a few years back! Also, you're an English student aren't you? It should be we're not were. You need to add a question mark after do you think we're stupid. There should be a capital T on this. Finally, you need an apostrophe between the n and the t in isn't. Good luck! :)

[wtf00001]

omg i went crazy in english!!! i was laffin ma head off !

[xxpwinkxx]

love it

[dwarfy102]

im only doing HALFF of my english work 2day with HALFF of my pen and HALFF of my book

[shawi1995]

same in my literature exam!

[kingkirch1]

expain what yu mean when yu say hhhaaaaaalllffffff casteeeeeee..... lol

[LolliWarrior]

Makes me lol hard.

[shalomdrop]

It sounds a bit sinister

[chazii14]

haha hhaaaallllffff casstttee lmaoo

[IWantLandingSnow]

This is the poem i compared with in my exam!

HALF CASTE

[mrb900]

omg this is what i did in English!

[MuriloUK]

Yeah, we've also done that poem in our english class.. Everyone couldnt help but laugh lol :P

[razer0072073]

roflll same here!!!! on the interractive whiteboard i gt in trouble and i had to say the half caste poem in tht accent and its was embarasing

[jojotter]

Ha lol. I created this vid and I have quite a deep voice, so when I first showed it in my class they thought it was me! lol

[kungman190]

can any one explaine what is the meaning of ah rass??

cheers

[william899332]

its an expression of disgust, not a persific word

[kungman190]

thank u

[Iphoneuser204]

It means like

ohhh shut up

ohh go away

like kinda thing:)

[kungman190]

thanx a lot

[razer0072073]

i think its called religous phalisy nt sure lol

[jojotter]

Just makes it sound good! :)

[99samblaze99]

hey we're doing this poem at school lol

the first time i heard it i got soo scared lol

but now its kinda funny lol

still good poem

[spikey303]

Haha, im doing this at school aswel.

Doesnt it make you laugh?

I couldnt help it. haha

[RiPeYugurl]

same here lol

The way he reads it is so freaky!

My entire english class freaked out lol ^_^

[jojotter]

I know I think everyone does this, I created this video for an english project and I am very happy as it is now being used to teach in many schools.

[sebisam]

well done on finding so many pictures to match the poem

[chazii14]

lmao ! me and my friedn couldnt stop Laughing

[munkiemagik]

haha yeah thats was so funni why haaalf why carnt he say it normallt but then when you come to think about it it has a really good message behind the poem

[chazii14]

Yeah but it just makes me laugh .. haaalf

[lizzieanne93]

Ah, we laughed first time we heard this (:

[Hatzaw6]

One of my favourite poems from the Anthology. =]

[XtraMinty14]

AHHHDELLL! STANDING ON MY HEAD!

[roba845]

i hav to do a english oral exam on this poem today , it has to be atleast 5 minutes!!!! with a display!!!!!!!

AND i havnt completed it yet

[homemakingcompany]

we have this video on our school website we watched it in English

[jojotter]

Cool, I am glad to hear that people are benefiting from this video!

[sportygurlie911]

this explains why people shouldnt be racist

[jojotter]

Correct

[youareannoyinmenow]

i have to do a stupid poem comparison for this poem =[ stupid teacher wants 4 pages :'(

[jojotter]

Unlucky, I'm doing my mock gcse tomorrow! :(

[jackm05c1]

Me too, but I'm not quite as unlucky- I only have to do 2 pages. Sucks balls, huh?

[Ajeylani135]

omg his voice is scarrryyyy :(

[ljrushton]

This is the best version of the video i have seen- well done

[jojotter]

Thanks, it was a school project!