Purpose

We are all here for a purpose, sometimes objects presented to us in life distract us from our path and that is ok because we are all human, we have to be able to forgive ourselves and regain our footing on our path.We have to remember to help, love, and appreciate every person that we encounter even if they do not show the same in return. We are but people but it is our similarities that bond us, we cannot let our differences separate us.

This is a poem that moved me:

Integrated or Desegregated?

During the civil rights acts, laws were passed that stated that segregation was illegal, and forced integration in society. But as I look around my campus now, and reflect on how my high school was I do not believe that we as a society are integrated but,we are more de-segrated. Integration to me means interdependence, interconnection, and interaction between people of all races. I say that we are de-segrated because we interact with one another but in most cases that is were it ends. All students seem to drift toward the same clique or group of students that are similar to them. That is understandable, tracing actions back to primitive times, we as humans are more comfortable with things that are familiar. But what makes us all familiar is that we are all human beings we all have feelings, we bleed red, and we all have the capacity to love beyond a level or superficiality. I hope that we as a campus can become closer together and actually make good use of the diversity at hand.

"Can't we ALL just get along?"

It Moved Me

This is probably one of the most profound things I have ever come across:

I don't even know how to be here

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The man upstairs...

Recently I had a decision to make, a decision that had me wrestling with my thoughts, poking and prodding at my mind for answers. I was recently put into a position to make a big decision in a family member's life, out of respect I won't say who...When asked to make a decision,there I was without answer, stuck, without a clue or starting place. I searched my mind looking for friends to call, I asked advice of my closets friends, I even called an ex mine lol. I name all these options to point to my final but most important decision, and that was to take it to the Man Upstairs, I trusted him and asked him, and sat back and I watched the solution unravel itself before me.

S.N.

Passion-fill Post

The Entire Senior Class

did you read the reports? No...thats because it is considered too positive. The entire senior class at Chicago 's only public all-male, all-African-American high school has been accepted to four-year colleges. At last count, the 107 seniors had earned spots at 72 schools across the nation.

-Our nation can report on everything else, but let a group of African American students do something positive and it is no where to be found-

Side note this picture was taken March 5, 2010 more than 1 month ago

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See if you can tell what is wrong with this picture. Haha Shoutout to my brothers though.