My Community

This community I chose to talk about is my sports community. In high school, I played football and it was such an experience for me. The TV shows I watched never prepared me for the type of team I played for, reality hit me fast when I got there and met everyone. The coaches were hard on me, but a times it didn't seem like it was for the best reasons. I went into high school a little nieve thinking that because I played sports a lot of things were given to me and things would be great. I'l keep it real short and simple, but playing football tought me a lot of skills that I will keep for the rest of my life.

Module One Reflection

Pluses:

• Got enough sleep
• Showed up everyday 
• Completed all of my assignments on time
• Did well speaking in front of the class 
• Inter acted with people of older age groups 

Deltas:

• Procrastination
• Studying
• Infractions
• Failed Final
• Participation

From Hunters Point to Diamond Heights

I've heard terms like, "It's not where you come from it's where you’re going." Well I would have to agree with that statement. Where you come from shapes who you are as a person, but it doesn't always dictate where you will end up in life. I watch a lot of movies about people who make it out of  bad neighborhoods and become famous or get into a good college. Black people that gain wealth in the world and often times change the type of people they hang out with and even the way they talk. In one person’s eye speaking proper may be considered to be “white washed” and that person may just be educating themselves. When I was in middle school and in high school classmates would call me white boy, but what they didn’t understand  is the way you talk doesn’t dictate who you are as a person.  There are so many different sterotypes and trends about living in the hood. That the odds are against those trying to get out and move to higher living. If you watch movies like Boyz n the Hood or ATL, the young men coming up always face a number of challenges in order to get to the position of success.

                I grew up in Bayview Hunters Point and I saw many things that help me make better decisions now. I remember a time when I was at Raging Waters and a lot of people from my neighborhood were there and it was two different groups didn’t that get along. A fight began and people were arrested because one guy snuck a shotgun into the building. He was immediately put into handcuffs and taken away by the police. What I witnessed was worse than the guy pulling out a weapon, a woman was body slammed by the police and maced by the cops for trying to get her son out of the way. Even though they apologized it still angered me because they assumed she was involved.    

Response to Poverty Business

I think the companies are destroying the opportunity divide by taking advantage of those who do not have resources to search information themselves. One common thing I noticed about the victims of the being charged high interest rates is the access to computers.  By reading this article it reminded me of a saying that I hear often called, “The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” Simply that means that the way the system is built it’s meant to keep people from ever crossing that opportunity bridge. I do not understand why you would charge people a higher interest rate the less money they have. It’s the same as me saying the shorter you are the bigger the pants I will give you. The only reason I would do something like that is if I have no intentions on really helping you find the right pants in the first place. It’s corporation’s responsibility to inform the costumer on what they are signing and the options they have when they buy from the company. For a long time companies have falsified information and they really don’t get n trouble about it, because of these advertisement rules to where they can limit the amount of information they give about a product. That isn’t fair that a lot of people get tricked into buying a car or signing a phone contract where they own a lot of money. I would also add on that it’s just as much our responsibility to read up on a product or company so we don’t end up in those kinds of situations. In the article Vincent Humphries (a former Blue Hippo costumer) quoted, “I should have done my homework.” Which means that he should have did a little research before he went through with Blue Hippos.