due friday blog

on wednsday we talk about for our group that we will research about different groups in chicago and how they live. we would talk about the poor versus rich side of chicago and vise versa. chicago is a well populated area that has different cultures and is going to be very interesting to talk about.

blog 13

title: stony island
intro: stony island is a predominatly black neighborhood its been around for a long time and is a historic Chicago nieghborhood. its the center of the south side of Chicago and is the birth place of yours truly. me!

table of content: history, ethnicity, politics, who lived there? why is it an important part of Chicago.

heading/subheading: what stony island means to Chicago.

discussion: stony island is a big part of Chicago. it centers the south side of Chicago in a place that every one knows. it conect the city of chicago to the suburbs of the city. its a very important part of chicago.

external links: chicago tribune.com
                     fox news.com
                    nbc.com

blog12

his presentation  was good. I believed he got his point across. what I’m going to write about for my annotated bibliography is the south side of Chicago which is the area that I grew up. I was really interested in learning more about my community and how the neighborhood looked after a long period of time. I thought that I was really luck to be from this side of Chicago because you saw a arrange of people everyday in your life. the information that I found about the south side of Chicago was strikingly all negative. it was gun shooting, gang violence and rape. it made it seem that the south side of Chicago was the worst place to live in the world. it didn’t sound like the home I once knew. it sounded like a horror movie but it wasn’t it was real life and its dangerous and scary how real life can be. in the research that I’m doing, I’m going to find some light in the area I once called home

blog11

The way I would go about researching my community is to interview people. And ask them question like do you think the community is safe or what is the biggest issue living in this area. I think that it is very easy to research your own community because it’s your community. You live there and you have a firsthand view on what’s going on. You your self can identify the problem and make a solution. But the thing that you can’t do is see how people view your community. To you it might be your own personal little Disney land but the rest of humanity it’s a dump. You must research to prove them wrong. You must identify what the trends are in the neighborhood. Like, is there a recent neighborhood watch or are there recent burglaries in the area. I see now that we must know what is going on in our communities and we must know how to change what has happened in our communities. People are scared out their in the communities that I’m writing about and they just want answers to their problems. I think that it would be wise that we should take the law in or own hands if we see something wrong happening in our communities.

blog 10

I didn’t think that the information was that credible. It lacked depth, it only showed where the places are in the world and that it only told way these places are considered to be black neighborhoods. I think it was very racist because there were all considered to be bad places to live. I live in a black suburb and it’s the safest place to live to me. There are no gangs and no murders in every other black community it seems that there not as safe. I think it’s because of the news. They spread the word that its unsafe to live near blacks because were such dangerous people. And I think I have just answered my own question. Now wonder people are afraid of me I’m big and black. Just joking. But in America this is my reality. I have to know where I am and what I say when I’m in public because I am a black man. I know it seems harsh but that is my reality. I just wish that one day I can be normal for a change and not worry about how people look at me when I’m walking down the street. But beside the point I think that the community itself should change the way we look at black people. Not all of us are evil just some of the time.

blog 8 in the city

i grew up in the city and it was a fun time. i didn't have any complaints. when i was about 7 i moved to the suburbs and found that it was really quiet but safe. when i would go back to visit my family i would see that each year the city looked dirtier and dirtier each year. i didn't think i notice it before when i was younger but i think that it has gotten worse because more and more people are desperate today. the community is very different from the suburbs to the city. there are less black people in the suburbs than they are in the city and i have know idea why. i guess its because people like being around there own race and being apart of something that is more than themselves. now that i think about it more i think that people want to be accepted and liked by people so they tend to live by people that do that. living in the suburbs was not good for me school wise. i hate school and everything it stands for. i had white teacher teach me all my life and they always think of me in a negative way. if i were to go to a school in the city i think that i would have had a better time. but anyways i think that the different communities in Chicago should come together and stop the making it an unsafe place to live.

not to smart blog 8

The YouTube video on George Lakoff is long and really self-explanatory. He didn’t need to have an hour long seminar on how the world is not right. I could have look on channel 9 news today to figure that out. This man is just stating the obvious and telling it to the public. He isn’t making any change to make the world a better place. From what I can tell from him is that he is a selfish man with more degree than anyone he knows so he thinks that he knows something about being an illegal immigrant or a part of a race that is considered urban. He knows nothing of what it’s like to be different. I hate it when someone wants to make a difference but doesn’t have any follow through. These people are called weak. There weak because there best talent is to speak and not do.