Who Inspires Me

The source of my inspiration is all of my peers. Our school system taught us nothing that would prepare us for a workforce or adulthood. Our parents abandoned us. We live every single day following a system designed to keep us as statistics for someone elses personal gain. While we are treated like livestock, we counter everything that keeps us down. We are everyone you interact with in your every day life. We are your doctors, your teachers, your law enforcement, your hero and your villain. WE ARE EVERYONE. We are the people that are condemned for our achievements. We are those assassinated for solving problems. We are the most misunderstood people on the planet because we don’t have millions of dollars to spend on having a news network brainwasha nation. We are American youth.

What inspires me about the American youth is that we have a grey hat mentality. We never wait for someone else to solve our problems. The common person is too selfish to help anyone these days. Especially a young person struggling to merely exist. As youth we have developed our own system of survival and education. We take ALL matters into our hands because the police and our government has proven itself untrustworthy. What inspires me is our ability to alter and abolish government. What inspires me is seeing a peace and harmony created by the youth. Most of all what inspires me is seeing my peers create the international 99% movement.

I share this inspiration and hive mind with a majority of the world population. While everyone may react differently, ultimately we are aware that something in this world is terribly wrong and we are doing something about it. We will always be condemned by those who fear change but we will see the world conform to the benefit of the people. The Declaration Of Indepandance says, “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”

My Wise Community

The members of my community are the homeless youth of San Francisco. We get along very well because we all come from a similar background. As youth we have and show more respect to each other and the world around us because we are humbled. Some might call us old souls because we don't act like most young people. What makes us who we are and united is what we have been through and our common goal to simply improve our way of living. We don't choose our members, society does. We are all the wasted potential rejected by materialistic, selfish, and even stubborn communities. We, for years, have heard every excuse from many employers why they wont hire us. We learned that bending the rules of our surrounding communities is the only way not to die. We exist without skin color or religious bias. Politics is useless to us. We are survivalists and our level of perseverance is our advantage. Our disadvantages is being subject to an opportunity divide. A great success within this community is being able to help our fellow man. We encounter every day new homeless people. People ranging between the ages 18-25 who have never spent a night on the street. If they are lucky they meet me and my community. We show them the ropes and how to get out of this difficult position and they show the next man. As easy as that sounds we have many problems with this system and the new people. The new people need time to adjust and dealing with this transition can cause problems and sometimes we get new people who just use us and leave never to be seen again. I hate being homeless but I love the amount of truth I am exposed to everyday. If it is a lifestyle you can handle and get out of you will see that it is in fact a blessing in disguise.

Module 1 Revision

My school breaks down its school year into seven week sections called modules. The first module I have recently completed consisted of a CNIT 100 (introduction to computers) class along with Professional Skills and Business communications classes. In the time I have taken to complete this module I have learned some things about myself.

I as a student need more sleep in order to function. Without the proper amount of sleep, not only will I have a hard time keeping up with the pace of the day but I will worst of all lose my ability to retain all of the information I am cramming into seven weeks. I need to stay away from junk food. Junk food is slowing my body and mind down and this “it is” I cannot afford in this intensive academic training session. My health has improved due to my abstinence from alcohol. I just haven’t had the time to socialize much these days. My mind has changed completely, I find myself no longer considering what I sacrificed to be here as important. My habits have changed and getting work done gets easier by the day. I am impressed that overall I am in the right mindset to be a student.

A few things that surprised me were how my health is improving. Internally I feel like a new man. I have also sharpened my discipline and taken on a role of leadership.

I take pride in the style I was able to maintain but most of all just being able to complete the module. I didn’t think I could make it’

What disappoints me is getting infractions which made me lose money and lowered my grades somehow.

Other than that, I don’t think there is much to say.

There is no neighbor in "hood"

I grew up in the ghettos and slums of the S.F. Bay Area. Through my upbringing in these areas I have drawn this conclusion, I HATE THE GHETTO. I have seen soo much ignorance in these communities and the hardships I have endured in these areas was the drive I needed to get out. I didn't care if I had to eat out of the trash and sleep in an ally. I had to get out of the ghetto. I spent a few years as a vagabond and experienced the cultural spectrum of many communities. It is my observation that without any economic stimulation a community is doomed to become a war-zone because there is nothing to lose in that area anyway. Living in ghettos I hated having to travel far and wide for my basic needs such as going to school, work, or food. As a result from having to commute to exist in the only place I can afford, I thought I could never afford to move out. Finally I swallowed my pride and became a vagabond because when it comes down to it, there is no opportunity in these areas, no one could afford to even help themselves, and if I had any hope of getting out of this social environmental death trap it's going to hurt. By taking this path I learned that while I was considered the scum of the Earth I was a better investment than a ghetto. Most people are worth saving however we should take no pity in slum communities. They made their surroundings what it is and they have the power to change it, Harlem is a great example. They were a well-established community, became a slum, and now are undergoing gentrification. My point is, why invest in a community that doesn’t want to be invested in? Living in the ghetto made me hate these communities, what they are, what they stand for. I believe that unless they decide to change from within they should be eliminated for social justice and world peace. Demolition of these areas is a service.

Reflecting on The Poverty Business

I believe that companies profiting from low-wage earners are definitely contributing to the opportunity divide. One major trait I have noticed from many companies that offers credit or loans is that they have a tendency to charge a higher interest rate to the low-income client. This to me is morally wrong and an obvious act to maintain a poverty level. I don’t understand why businesses like dealerships, credit, or banks feel that making a community struggle instead of thrive can benefit anyone in the long run. The corporate juggernaut’s tenure over preyed upon credit of the poor community contribute greatly to the opportunity divide. There are many obstacles a person may face to obtain a job or career. If a person doesn’t have good credit then a job requiring things like a car, stable housing, tools, or whatever is alone financially challenging to obtain is out of reach. It is disgusting that the same people creating the social problems rooted from poverty are creating the poverty, and this needs to stop. We can point the finger back and forth about who is at fault but if we want to find the person who takes responsibility for this we need only to look in a mirror. We need to take responsibility for saving money, organizing a budget, and most of all passing laws. The change and solution for this is within our-selves and within a community to exercise their right to vote and create propositions and measures. Complaining and ranting over an issue has changed nothing in this country yet we as a people have a tendency to mope and broadcast our opinions for days, weeks, months, and years. There is a reason why most of the world views the United States as a lazy people and it is because when it comes to something important and or urgent we fail to take action until it’s too late.

My Bio

I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. The culture and advances of the society has molded and shaped my mind. As a child, I have been drawn to technology and the limitless possibilities of computers. I actually spent most of my spare time tinkering with scrapped Dell computers and working on my "Super Computer" projects. When I wasn't distracted with electronics, I lived like any normal kid. I played, I was mischievous, I struggled in school due to my opinions and beliefs. I lived in 3 cities growing up which made school and maintaining a social life difficult. To educate myself I learned from the internet because it offered an opportunity to learn what I need to know instead of what the public school system believes I should know. The result was greatly rewarding.  I dropped out of high school and got my GED instead of a diploma so I can enjoy the little free time I had left as a teen. Like many disciplined drop outs, at the age of 21 I have already made mistakes and learned the life lessons high school graduates are just beginning to learn and endure. To compensate for missed time in high school, I would read my friends notes or have the friends that do well in English teach me how to speak and write.

Peaceful Protests For Economic Equality

 I would first like to acknowledge the bravery it takes to peacefully make a statement and still face violence from law enforcement intended to keep the peace. I have been watching Op Occupy Wall Street from its development phases. The article I attached in the link below is a few days old from when this blog was posted. Since the peaceful demonstration began police have been guilty of excessive force and or police brutality. All of which has been filmed and posted all over the internet. This gathering on Wall Street is a display of those affected by corporate juggernauts and the economic divide this country's government has ignored for decades. The United States citizens do not need permits for a peaceful gathering and we do not need permits to express ourselves peacefully to the causes of our social problems. The Declaration of Independence says in the third line of the second paragraph "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." I believe that our law enforcement as U.S. citizens should recognize this and even support their fellow man in times of struggle and change rather than beating supremacy into us and sending us to jails or prisons.


My Sources
 http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/17/technology/occupy_wall_street/index.htm