I was raised in Mobile Alabama. I grew up in the "hood" or the "ghetto", you might call it that, whatever it was, it was my home. I grew up where you watch each others back's and never see anything your not supposed to. it was R.V Taylor (my hood) versus Orange grove. Family is first always no matter what crap y'all go through. I learned that from my mom, that hypocritical ass hole. Growing up we (me and my sisters) had to have each others back and hold one another down because y mom wouldn't.
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Speaking up for what you believe in can be hard and nerve-wracking at times but if you can rack up the courage, you should. I recently got back into the foster care system( this is my 5th time). Being a foster child, people have very low expectations for you and your family. People expect you to turn out a crackhead like your parents, or just because you are african american, your family is gang affiliated and/or uneducated. One day I got fed up with all the racist remarks and went off on someone. I don't think they meant it that way but I still felt the need to tell them how I felt.
The lyric I picked is by Tupac from his song "Changes": "Cops give a damn about a negro/ pull the trigger, kill a n**a, he's a hero/ 'give crack to the kids: who the hell cares?/ one less hungry mouth on the welfare!". I chose this piece mostly because it relates to me (being mixed) and hits home a little from when I was growing up in the projects in Mobile, Al. This is specially relevant with BLM and police brutality becoming more openly talked about. throughout my video there will be a mix of handwritten and illustrator. The style of my video will probably be B/W with some old camera footage and a messy writing style.
Sorry if I sound a little irritable; I am getting over a virus I caught recently. That little doltish twit should've never answered those damn surveys. Honestly, how idiotic must you be to believe downloading clash of clans and playing it for 30 seconds, would get you anywhere near a free Iphone 7? I even warned that fat, greasy, cheeto-dust covered, pubescent boy that the "sight's security certificate is not trusted" but that idiot still continued. I wish they sold me with their last house because he's getting older and I'd rather him play hobo prison brawl all night and wear down the arrow keys and "a" "s" keys, than witness what he does after school when his parent's aren't home. Oh my god... I think i'm going to be sick just thinking about it. At least he clears his search history so it's not stuck in my system all night when i'm trying to sleep. I really hope this is just a phase...
My interpretation of this picture is that there is a clown that doesn't want to be a clown. The outsider clown is the one in the back and in striped clothes. I think the striped jump suit represents them being a prisoner to clown society. I think the laughing clowns at the front represent The striped clown being marginalized and teased.
Questions: 1) Who is someone from your life that you admire or look up to? Why? 2) What does success look like to you? 3) What does being a good person look like to you? 4) What do you value? 5) What don't you have that you want? 6) What do you already have that you would like to be a part of your life forever? 7) If you had children/a nephew/a younger sibling/etc, what life lessons do you think are important for them to know? 8) What is your dream job? Answers: 1) Surprisingly, I look up to my sister Sierra. Even though she is only a year older than me, she occasionally has some good ideas and morals. She works so hard at things when she has a reason behind it that nobody else knows. She is always a highlight in everyone's day because she is smart, funny, pretty and always knows how to make someone happy. 2) I'd say sucess is working at something hard enough until you get an outcome; the outcome doesn't necessarily have to be the one you were wanting, as long as its the one you needing. 3) When someone notices others in need and helps them instead of walking past them blaming them for their circumstances. When you are grown up, raising kids, you put them before anything else. You can be a good person if you just drop the ignorance and do the best for yourself and those around you. 4) I value honesty and family because it seems that it is the root of everything. Be honest with yourself so you don't damage yourself and others around you. Don't ever put someone before your family because your family always has your back but a man can always walk out. 5) I wish I had my family back together. 6) I hope I never lose my past because though it was crazy, it makes me who I am today. 7) I want my children to know that not everyone is bad, but not everyone is good, that's why you have to put family first. 8) My dream job is being an F.B.I homicide detective. Police have a false paragon of Black males. They think that males, especially black, for what ever reason, are the most violent people in the world. They are too scard and ignorant tho pull their heads out of the gutter, that instead of treating black males fairly and leaving them alone or at least carrying out a routine pull over for an ilegal left turn, they feel its necessary to brutally beat or murder men on the street when there are white or any form of majority people out killing people, robbing people, raping daughters of their fellow coworkers, etc; but instead they decide, to murder someone who carried out an unsafe traffic law, or beat them nearly to death. Clearly they have some priorities that then need to reorganize because if that is their main priority, they don't reserve the right to "fight" for our community. Today, in the news, and even when the news or the public don't announce it, too many people are victims of police brutality. This year alone (2016) 844 people have been killed by the police. Two days ago (september 20th 2016) a disabled black man was shot in his car for reading a book. The police say they were searching for a man with alot of warrants and they saw a man whith what they all had mistaken a book for, a gun leaving his car. Police for whatever reason think they are superior to others especially people of color. I think this single story is already bad enough and we should focus on stopping this nonsense.
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