Students’ Political Song Sweeps the Nation

RCA students were recently featured on CNN.com – Click here- http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/10/24/von.ga.kids.political.rap.cnn performing their own version of T.I.’s song “Whatever You Like.”  Students during their Global Studies class have been learning every political issue associated with the upcoming Presidential Election, and as a result have created the song “You Can Vote However You Like.”This time, Ron Clark Academy students were captured on tape while performing the song in front of a distinguished audience of city leaders and political activists at Woodruff Park in downtown Atlanta.  Students were invited to participate in the United Nations Foundation’s citywide tour promoting their Nothing But Nets – a program to stop the spread of malaria in Africa.

Inspired by the song, CNN who was there covering the event, placed the video on CNN.com.  CNN’s founder Ted Turner is also the founder of the United Nations Foundation.