I'm watching alot of these news programs with all of these politicians talking about the economy and justifying why the banks, particularly Bear Stearns, had to be bailed out while all of the Americans who are losing their homes to foreclosure should be ignored; these people don't care about the people who have very little money. This is typical America and how they have always conducted business: the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. I think it's time to change that way of thinking because if we don't we are all gonna end up being poor except for maybe a half percent of the country.
This generation has a problem with racial injustice both literally/actually and economically. "Actually" is evidenced whenever the police automatically assume that a young black or spanish man with gold chains and a nice car is in a stolen car or a drug dealer. Or when a job interviewer sees a young black or latin with a tattoo in his arm and automatically assume that he/she is a gang member but when they see the same tattoo on a white they think he was in the armed services. These evidences than branch out to give evidence of its economic effect.
Due to these sterotypical thoughts it is oftenly hard for minorities to get jobs and stay out of prison. The reactions of minorities to these thoughts is usually to allow an inner anger to harbor and fester. This anger is then expressed negatively against people they believe are responsible for their injustices, but these people are often innocent and are just being used as scapegoats for the injustices.
The real people "responsible" for the injustices are almost never addressed for their unjustifiable thinking and actions because these actions though unjustifiable are seen as the norm and we rather prefer not to challenge the norm. This is how we often deal with injustice: we keep it to ourselves and then beef, cry and whine within each other about them instead of tackling the injustices head-on. This is the reason why Barack Obama's speech receives so much praise...and so much criticism.
You see, the real people responsible for the racial injustices are not the white man, or the black man or the immigrants, or the businesses or the government: the real people responsible is ourselves. We all play a part and we are afraid to face the responsibility of our parts in this broken system of thinking. This is what Obama's speech highlights: the fact that we can point no fingers at anyone else because we are the ones responsible whether we are racist ourselves or just ignore and allow it.
I have a daughter and I would like her to grow up in a different type of society. i want her to be able to do anything she puts her interest in irregardless of what it is. This is one of the reasons that once I go home I'm gonna put together a portfolio of Destany's pictures etc. I want her to be like a Janet Jackson, raven etc.; I want her to be like a child star so that once she grows up enough to make her own decisions she'll have all those opportunities.
Also, I'm gonna start teaching her now, while she's still a baby so that she could absorb all of the knowledge. I'm gonna sing to her the alphabet song because that's usually one of the first things they teach in school and they say that the best way to teach is through music. What I want is for her learning level to be at least 2 years ahead of the normal child. when she goes to kindergarten she'll know her A,B,C's and 1,2,3s. By the time she starts learning arithmetic in school she'll learn calculus! this will give her the opportunity to be a scientist, lawyer or teacher if she chooses to be.
I want Madelyn to teach Destany how to cook, wash clothes and read and write so that she could be a chef, own a dry cleaners/laundry or just be a nanny if she chooses to be. I want her to be able to be anything she wants to be; no limit to what she could become. When I was young my chances were limited because of our financial situation but I want more for Destany.
I wonder if I could possibly get my Associate's in Business like I started to when I was home. Maybe if I could get to work release then maybe I could also take care of my debt to ASA and then continue to get my degree while also in work release. I want to be able to work at a good paying job so that I could provide a better life for Destany; her future depends on how I could support her and I'm gonna do my best to ensure that she gets the best support.
The majority of our children never get anywhere in life; before they even reach 25 they are either dead or end up in prison or with children they can't provide for; I don't want that to happen to Destany. I worry so much about her. I worry that she grow up in a society that won't accept her unless she's giving up pussy or is willing to shoot people. i just want Destany to be part of that small percentage of our children who grow up to have a respectful and prosperous future; so far my decisions have been wrong and fatal but i have to determine whether or not I will make right ones now. I will!
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