Chapter 15

The color of our skin alone was enough to make us suspect. This Quote on page 200 of The Pact Reminds me of this case.
Trayvon Martin was not innocent. He was guilty of being black in presumably restricted public space...
For more than two years, vocal pockets of conservative activists and politicians demanded proof of President Obama’s citizenship—as if a black man was trespassing simply by being elected to the Oval Office. As the president was being asked to show his papers to the nation, state governments in Arizona, Alabama and South Carolina empowered police officers, school officials and merchants to demand proof of citizenship from anyone they deemed suspicious of immigration violations—suspicions that are triggered primarily by racial, ethnic and linguistic profiling. Despite the dramatic legal changes brought about by the ending of Jim Crow, it is once again socially, politically and legally acceptable to presume the guilt of nonwhite bodies.
This is the political setting for the moment when George Zimmerman approached Trayvon Martin as he walked home in the rain with a bag of Skittles.

 

 

chapter 14

      My friends respected me enough not to do certain things in my apartment or in my presence. on page189 of The Pact Respect is a positive feeling of esteem or deference for a person or other entity (such as a nation or a religion), and also specific actions and conduct representative of that esteem. Respect can be a specific feeling of regard for the actual qualities of the one respected (e.g., "I have great respect for her judgment"). It can also be conduct in accord with a specific ethic of respect. Rude conduct is usually considered to indicate a lack of respect, disrespect, where as actions that honor somebody or something indicates respect. Specific ethics of respect are of fundamental importance to various cultures. Others in society, people that have important roles on a way that a person lives on a day-to-day basis, earn the respect of others by assisting us. For example, teachers or coworkers or the people we encounter everyday certainly deserve a measure of respect. Simple words and phrases like, "Thank you," and simple mechanisms, like a smile or a pat on the back, show a level of respect that over time will form, within a culture, a cohesive bond.

 

Chapter 13 Quote

     The Quote from Page 177 of “The Pact is” you can’t aim for what you don't see. We all grow in different places with different styles of living and up bringing. “Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it” --Viktor E. Frankly, What is being said is that if someone is never introduced to something how is he supposed to know anything about it. The way you grow up has a lot to do with who you become. I your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.  the role of family and the environment around the home often dominated people's ideas about what affected psychological well-being.

 

          

 

Veido that reminds me of The Pact

Marvin Sapp never would have made it is what I think about when I read the book The Pact about the Three doctors. They never would have made it if it wasn't for a lot of people caring for the like Carla. If they didn't have each other they probably would have never made it.

Chapter 12 Qoute

        I had heard the term "lovesick" and thought it was something that happened to girls, certainly not guys like me. I was in high school  when I first learned the term when I was going with this girl named Brittany. Me and Brittany had started talking cause me the charming type everyday would see her and blow kisses, or talk sweet to her on a regular basis. Brittany was involved with this boy that I know of, and I had stolen her away from him at least I had thought; come to find out Brittany was playing both side living the best of both world how she did it still to this day I don't know because I demanded much of her time. When I first learned of what was going on instead of me taking it out on her I took it out on the other guy, we often to got into fights to show our love while she was enjoy the show. I was in love head over heels for her and he was to and she knew that so she told us that she could not choose and had to accept the fact that she was going to see both of us. I really liked this girl so I played along with it until I realized that I was being made a fool so I then ended our relationship, and moved on so I had though I dreamed of her passed her home everyday became her sister best friend just in order to keep her on my brain. what ever I did I made sure it effected her in some type of way because I wanted her to my self bad. we got back tight after I graduated school and began talking again not knowing her and the same dude was still talking, because she had told me she ended. well it was a lie and I had finally made my mine up that I couldn't be with her so we would be just friends. But that the moment that taught me the term lovesick.  

Cahpter 11 qoute

           Rap Music defined our generation the way that Motown had defined our parent's era. As I read that quote from the book I think about my life and how Rap music plays a major role in my life. I'm a very passionate person and I show my passion through music. When I listen to music I try to connect to what is being said in the songs and connect it to my personal life. if you listen to music you often hear things that relates to you, and with rap music if reflects the way I grew up and live my life so I have a very strong connection with Rap music. Rap music also known as hip hop affect the clothes I wear, and the cars I drive, and they way I interacts with others in my personal life. Hip hop is very powerful and has a lot of influence in young kids life's today as it did mine when I was growing up.
I often question hip hop, the way its leading our young kids, and adults in to prison for wanting to live the dope boy life or the life of a thug. I often want to challenge hip hop artist to empower kinds to do the right thing in there music instead of influencing them to sell drug to live a flashy life style.  All music not just hip hop have effects on how people live there life but I feel my music of choice hip hop has the most impact on society and should do some to give back since it has did so much to take away from society. 

Giving Back

        Giving back is very importance specially when it come to your community. In my community I try to ensure that the kids get jobs to support them self's so that their parent can have some kind of freedom. Getting the kids jobs helps them and their parents because, parents often can't afford the life style the kids want to live and it create problems between them so I step in and help out with showing the kids that you are old enough to help your mom out take responsibility. I also help out with the church helping the elderly come in and out of the church. I like helping them because they are some of the ones who helped paved the way for us to have it as easy as we do in our life. I often sit and listen to what is going on in the teenagers life to see if I can help in anyway that I can. you can also find me donating time to support the high basket, and football programs, helping the coaches motivate the kids to want to do better in school and life. you'll see me giving money, food, clothes, and shoe sometimes also if I can because I wish I had someone to do the same for me when I was young and in school and couldn't afford things that I needed or wanted. I give now because I have a great job and can afford to help someone else who don't "I can show you to the way to get job and be successful in life but I cant do it for you its up to you is what I tell them". I just want them to not think that I'm better than them, but show them  that they to can have the same things in life if they want it bad enough and is willing to work hard for it and not give up when the road is hard.