My Commuinty

The community I am apart of is called Leadership Excellence .It’s a non-profit organization that serves African American youth. Giving them the support of education, past history, social media, environment and everything else you can think of revolving around support. This community has given me hope, insight and plenty of education on myself and my heritage. They have served over 600 students in the last few years. I call this my community because the help I have received through the volunteers and mentors in the program. I have grown so much from spiritual to physical from all of the workshops they have taught. I am very thankful for a group setting of educators. I will start a non-profit organization which one day I hope the youth and adults will be able to speak on it such as an empire. For this is a Community I’m designated to.

Module one the "GOOD and the BAD"

The past seven weeks has been a remarkable journey.I have had challenges and lots of new learning opportunities.I learned alot about myself,from the way I communicate to the way i prep for a test the next day.A few positive attributes i gave to my community and myself were being organized,keeping a professional language,helping my colleagues, and never being late or missing any days during the seven weeks.I'm proud of myself for making all of these achievements and even more grateful for it being recognized by my community.I earned an Award for my Core Values.I will improve on my challenges such as taking the time to really study for a test,and if i don't understand it I will get seek some tutoring.I always look forward and thank th4e past for the present "SANKOFA"I will go forwards and never forget my past.

Despite the Hood

My neighborhood is an environment, where education is what you seek and crack is what you reap. I live on the borderline of west Oakland and north Oakland. The population is high scale with a lot of people who have been living in the community and a lot of new comers coming into the community. Most minority and low income. Public Assistance and social security is the income of most of the people in this community. I see a lot of environmental racism in West Oakland, On Mandela parkway there is a factory where cardboard boxes are being made for cereal ,now while your kids are getting up and ready for school eating there cereal, there inhaling the boxes being made for that cereal. This is not fair nor right to put a factory there because you know that the population in west Oakland is low income and can’t afford to live in middle class neighborhoods. I am who I am today despite me neighborhood.I  Am not a statics of the hood. I went to high school and graduated and am furthering my education. “This is the most rare saying in the ghetto”.From birth to now I lived in low income neighborhoods and have learned and witness it all with my two eyes, that the actions I see,I don’t want for me in my life.Iam glad I have lived in low income neighborhoods so that I can see the injustice government doing there cruel.From this I learned about instuition racism, environmental racism and gentrification. I will take this knowledge and apply to help my previous and present community To have justice and safe living for the future. Am glad for this experience of living in a neighborhood ewhere I could witness bad and good actions for this is who I become despite my neighborhood Keren Osman.

"The Poverty Business"

The “Poverty Business” means a lot compounded into one frame sentence. I feel  that  the companies who profit from low wage earners are contributing to the opportunity divide. They are making it severe  for anyone who doesn’t have the resources to get those sources that are limited. If they weren’t earning any type of profit from this poverty business then I would agree that this cause isn’t very effective. It puts several limitations on people of minority races. The opportunity Divide is a thin line between opportunity and limitations to those resources that you are able to obtain. The government is in charge for this cause because; they have the YES or No on anything that is affiliated with the citizens of America. We the people can change what steps we take to not get caught in the system trap as I like to refer to the “Deep hole six feet under.” I feel there should be no subject called credit, it’s all a way to eliminate you from the process of life. If you have Bad credit you can’t own a home, car, or even have an emergency income. The resources that need to be in place for citizens are more, advertisement on resources and knowledge on credit and all of the other government affiliated organizations participating with credit. Life wouldn’t have a Red line across it, If limitations weren’t just targeted towards people of poverty, then it would be fair but since the wealthy people aren’t targeted when they make a mistake with credit Its no justice serve for people who are born into the society of a crocked government system.