fake thugs

With the gang situation I think its all getting out of hand like with Bloods and Crips. It was all supose to be about getting money in a not good matter because of the drugs involved. It also was because the hispanics were trying to opress the black and no body would do anything about it. The hispanic were like the first with the drugs from over seas and whatever. Then bloods evolved into a huge deal I could really say why or how crips got involved but im pretty sure it was then when the bloods took over they made an impact cause the people who was left and didn't wanna follow the bloods to erupt. Know its all gotten out of hand bloods killing bloods because of jealousy and just plain cowardness. I hate when people who never got a look as a regular person become blood or "Bum home" as they call it and all of a sudden they're the toughest guys, it funny to me.

" The Trenton makes bridge" its actually reads "Trenton makes the world takes" its a bridge outside of the city I was born and raised in that streches across the river that goes along the south coast of Trenton(The Delaware river). It goes from Trenton into Morrisville Pennsylvania. I heard A lot of factories used to be in Trento and they used to make a lot of different thing like steel and other things, and thats what they ment by "Trenton makes the world takes".

Cedric's position

I really think Cedrics life is so common it just so happens he got a chance to get his life published. I think everyone was put it certain situations because the lord him self believes they can over come any obsticle they are placed in front of. I think He shouldn't have recieved any additional help then the help he already had unless he just got lucky or entered a contest or something similar. I do believe he could have been less fortunate than others that surrounded him but there had to be some benefits if he was to explore he could see. I notice everyone around Montclair who came from a hard environment like to talk about it consistantly to others. I always wondered if everyone is always looking for a hand out or for someone to feel bad for them. But then I realized after watching different entertainment shows and listening to music everyone wants to be the tough guy and say how they could grow up in the "hood" and say they are hood so others would think of them as the cool type its funny to me sometimes. Just because you grow up in the hood it does mean your hood. I could be wrong but to me it seemed to me cedric tried to play that role.

Ma "Earff"(Mom)

Another fourth of my inspiration is my mom, man a single mother of six, who keep the house laid out and everybody fresh along and everybody's belly on full. I have a feeling there is no other mother in the world who would sacrifice as much as she did. I really believe she would go over board to provide for her children. I mean I just wish I was never the little hard head I was. I really gave her a hard time when I was younger. Then I realized the route I wanted to take so I left my old ways to become a better person for me, her and others.

Ma Grandma

One fourth of my inspiration would have to be ma grandma. I basically grew up with her, she one of the meanest indivisuals in the world according to everyone who knows her. I agree she is real mean but its like something about her and me that just click. Everyone in the family know im like her favorite grand child. If I wasnt at my house I was at hers. We went every where together traveled down south all the time. She is also a diabetic and its kind of haretitary. One night I almost gave up on life when I was at her house and she was having a stroke and I didn't know what to do, so I had to calm down and I called the emergency room to send the paramedics. I called half of my family to let them know what was happening and they all tryed to make it a big deal like I saved her life. I just looked at it as a oportunity to do for her what she was doin for me all my life and thats just be there.

Boring

The only suprise about my college experience is how boring the weekends are. Everyone goes home for the weekend and everything is left empty and boring. During the first couple weeks here I would stay here and look for something to get into. Then I realized it was impossible because the school was empty. So now every weekend I take it home as well but sometimes it still be boring because everyone is either working at home or at school. So i'm just confused about the situation I don't know if I should stay here or go home because the out come would be the same.

Steelers grass

The Pittsburgh Steelers "the best team ever" is like one of three teams in the NFL whose home field is still natural grass. When it rained before games it would be in horrible conditions. One time it was so horrible that the ball got stuck in the grass. Our starting RB didn't fumble all season until this game where he put the ball on the ground three times. The trainers and players all suguested it was the best dicision because it was safer injury wise.

half time

It's half time and Im sweetin like a slave watching a "bean" go down the drain. I can't stand Dwight Howard and Lebron James they are killing the Western allstars by themselves. I mean where did they even come from I knew of Lebron, but what is a Dwight Howard. All I know is he's killing me right know. I hope He gets tired real quick for the sake of my bet.

dumb all star weekend move

I don't really watch basketball like that, i used to but I don't follow up on in it as much. I dont know who got traded or retired and i made the dumbest move. I made a hundred dollar bet that the west all stars would win because my team is the Houston Rockets and I wouldn't go against my own team. I didn't really think it through because I just thought about my team and the previous wins of the western all star team, go West!!!!

gurl power

It crazy how much power gurls have over males, not always physically but mentally. In my neighborhood alot of altercations between males come from jelousy and if you investigate the situation far back enough most likely you will see that someone's girl friend was in it. I can't understand how it would be that serious, I understand you are suppose to care for your mate but if your mate choose someone else over you then thats stupid to make it a problem between you and your mates choice

I wish it was hot

Its way too cold around this time of year in Montclair I really wish I would have went to school down south. All my life I said I would go to school where the whether stayed atleast about 60 all year around for the most part. I'm a person who hates cold wheter, snow and everything that comes with it. I used to love christmas when I was younger but now I don't get anything I could care less about.

changin

I just think its so crazy how going up a level in education could change somebody's life. I seen how some people act in high school then afterwards they become a different person. I didn't go to school with most of the people In MSU but something tells me they aren't living the life they used to

college hype

Alot of people back home ask me if college is the life everybody talk it up to be. I honestly don't know how to answer that question since i've been here. I cant say how the life is for other people you know. I've realized my life in college might be slightly different from everybody's else. I dont really party like that because you know that just never been my idea of having fun. I just wind up telling them they would have to experience something like college for your self to find out if it is good or not. Sometimes I think college is not the life for me, but then I realize how hard it might be in my future without it and I fight through it.

Dr. Martin Luther King blvs

Traveling around to different states during the past years of my life I've realized how every Dr. King blv is one of the worst streets in every neighborhood. I've always wondered why everyone would choose that street of all streets to make to street where the most violence and drug pushers would take place. If you ask anybody about going down "the blv" in any hood they would tell you its not the best idea. I think that disrespectful for a guy who put his life on the line to make sure we as minority are looked at as humans.

Haters

Why is it that when someones doing something positive with their life and is actually succeding there is always a group of people praying for the successful person's down fall? I think its the lowest thing to get mad at someone because of the work they did to get where they are. I say this because it one of the main reasons why people get killed in my neighborhood. When I hear people saying oh he/she forgot where he/she came from or he/she don't never come back and do anything for the kids. They sometimes know they are a target now and for a little bit of change someone would kill them.

New Orleans,Bush

When the hurricane Katrina occured I was wondering why everyone blamed most of it on The President(Bush). I was Thinking to my self like dont everybody know it had nothing to do with anybody it was just mother nature. Then I had a talk with a professor that I had and he told me there was a lot about the hurricane that I didnt know about. I read up on it, and I realized that the hurricane really didn't have anything to do with Bush. Then I thought that the people who stayed were just the dumbest people ever. Then I found out that New Orleans was like the poorest state in the USA. I found out the people who lived there where not financially stable enough to have transportation. So the mayor of New Orleans asked the president to get greyhounds to take people away, and he refused to. I thought that we should start a greyhound boycott for their inconsideredness. They where wrong but Bush was as wrong for not making them go. Basically anyone in office would be better then Bush so I happy reguardless who wins.

Making history

I mean it's crazy that where living in an era where so much history is currently being made.
There is a chance that not only a black man but also a women will win the president election. Before this year No one, well I would have never thought this would happen period yet it's happening. I feel as thought its already been made because as far as I know they never even made it this far. If they are the people for the job then I think it would be great to see either of them win. Im pretty sure there will be so much chaos if either of them happens to win. Who ever wins I hope that the job is taken care of properly.

"wow the Giants won"!!!!

I dont know why it is such a great deal that the New York Giants won the superbowl. I think its possible for any team in the NFL to win the superbowl. I mean after all they are all professional football players. Ok I understand nobody thought they would be in the run in the beginning of the season. That type of ending is common in sports and especially football, at any time any team could be beaten. When Pittsburgh won after a slow start it wasn't disscused as much as this superbowl finish.

college loans

The state should support higher education because of the same reason that regular education is supported by the state. The cost of higher education is too exspensive for most of the people who attends. People pay all kind of taxes and it’s used for regular education why shouldn’t it be used for the education that it’s really needed for. It wouldn’t really be taken away from the state I think because they would be getting the money back. Especially because a college degree does not carry the same weight as it previously did for some reason.
Everyone knows how expensive it is to go to college and to most people the cost alone discourages them. That leads them down another path which is not good, to avoid it help students with their goals. I’m not saying just help anyone who is not trying to help them selves but help the people who could make it far academically but is turned down because of financial problems.