Words, illustrations, and thoughts from urban youth.
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Kendrick Lamar - Complexion Lyrics
Let me talk my Stu Scott, 'scuse me on my 2pac
Keep your head up, when did you stop? Love and die
Color of your skin, color of your eyes
That's the real blues, baby, like you met Jay's baby
You blew me away, you think more beauty in blue green and grey
All my Solomon up north, 12 years a slave
12 years of age, thinkin' my shade too dark
I love myself, I no longer need Cupid
And forcin' my dark side like a young George Lucas
Light don't mean you smart, bein' dark don't make you stupid
And frame of mind for them bustas, ain't talkin' "Woohah!"
Need a paradox for the pair of dots they tutored
Like two ties, L-L, you lose two times
If you don't see you beautiful in your complexion
It ain't complex to put it in context
Find the air beneath the kite, that's the context
Yeah, baby, I'm conscious, ain't no contest
If you like it, I love it, all your earth tones been blessed
Ain't no stress, jigga boos wanna be
I ain't talkin' Jay, I ain't talkin' Bey
I'm talkin' days we got school watchin' movie screens
And spike yourself esteem
The new James Bond gon' be black as me
Black as brown, hazelnut, cinnamon, black tea
And it's all beautiful to me
Call your brothers magnificent, call all the sisters queens
We all on the same team, blues and pirus, no colors ain't a thing
COmplexion
Let me talk my Stu Scott, 'scuse me on my 2pac
Keep your head up, when did you stop? Love and die
Color of your skin, color of your eyes
That's the real blues, baby, like you met Jay's baby
You blew me away, you think more beauty in blue green and grey
All my Solomon up north, 12 years a slave
12 years of age, thinkin' my shade too dark
I love myself, I no longer need Cupid
And forcin' my dark side like a young George Lucas
Light don't mean you smart, bein' dark don't make you stupid
And frame of mind for them bustas, ain't talkin' "Woohah!"
Need a paradox for the pair of dots they tutored
Like two ties, L-L, you lose two times
If you don't see you beautiful in your complexion
It ain't complex to put it in context
Find the air beneath the kite, that's the context
Yeah, baby, I'm conscious, ain't no contest
If you like it, I love it, all your earth tones been blessed
Ain't no stress, jigga boos wanna be
I ain't talkin' Jay, I ain't talkin' Bey
I'm talkin' days we got school watchin' movie screens
And spike yourself esteem
The new James Bond gon' be black as me
Black as brown, hazelnut, cinnamon, black tea
And it's all beautiful to me
Call your brothers magnificent, call all the sisters queens
We all on the same team, blues and pirus, no colors ain't a thing
Read more: Kendrick Lamar - Complexion Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Thursday, February 18, 2016
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Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Friday, June 12, 2015
Fwd:
From: Martinez, David <dmartinez80@cps.edu>
Date: Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 7:45 AM
Subject:
To: twinfrey2000.kennedykid@blogspot.com
David Martinez
Wrong color, bad timing
Living in a world where we can only wear black or white. Not being able to wear your favorite color just because you might get mixed up and shot. We teens live in a messed up generation in which we can't wear any type of color because we are too scared of the outcome. I've been in a couple of these situations, but the latest was the most terrifying since I had a gun pointed at me. I had just left a party in which my cousin and I were wearing baby blue shirts with black dress pants. We had barely finished pumping gas into his car when a black tundra just parked in front of us and a couple of people came out with guns pointed at us. This was all in pilsen and two weeks ago. Now imagine what has happened in the past years. There was a killing over wrong shoe color. On May 29, 2015 a special needs teen was shot and killed in front of his mother over shoe color. His name was Tavin Price he walked in into a store where he was approached by somebody who asked him to take off his red tennis shoes, assuming they were gang affiliated. Tavin walked out the store and told his mom in which she said lets go. Before they could leave a gang member approached them and shot Tavis in front of his mother. How sad is that the teen was shot only for wearing red tennis shoes. When memorial weekend came there were 56 shot, and 12 killed. We cant have a peaceful weekend to remember those who gave their life for this chaotic city to go on. There have been 180 deaths this year only for Chicago. Most of the people that were shot were either blacks or Latinos. These gangs are taking over everything we care about. If they really want to kill or die they should just join the army since they have a opportunity to kill and die for their country, family, and friends. Many of these people rather kill innocent people to enjoy their lives not knowing the damage they do to the victims.
David Martinez
Creative writing
Pilsen
My favorite place has always and will be pilsen. I was born there and have most of my family there. Pilsen has always been my favorite place to be, it always makes me calm down when Im having problems. The artists in this neighborhood are known for their murals and paintings. You can't go to one street without seeing a mural, painting, or tagging. The people there are mostly Latinos who are doing there best to make their kids have a better future and have more than their parent had, that's the goal of each Mexican parent. The only bad thing about this place are the gangs but where aren't there gangs to screw up everything that their generations before worked hard to built. That place is always busy, loud, and dangerous. There are many festivals that are made there which are pretty good. The many people that live there always wake up early since their jobs are mostly in downtown or in factories which start there day at five or six in the morning. The kids are expected to be more in life to later repay their parents for all their sacrifices that they have done to make a living for their kids. My grandma had to leave her kids back in mexico and didn't see them till they were fifteen or sixteen years old. Many families leave love ones back in their home country to come to this supposedly "land of money" which is all a hoex.
Kobe editoral
Violence in Chiraq
Why all the violence in Chicago? Have you seen people sneak dissing on social media? Have you heard about the gun violence and gangs in Chicago? Music in Chicago has a big influence on gun violence in gangs in the city of Chicago. Chief Keef a well known Chicago rapper who has put out music about gangs in Chicago. He also had beef with the late rapper little JoJo who was shot and killed for making a rap video that was dissing chief keef's gang. 50 to 80% of the murders in Chicago are gang related. Most of the reasons for them is social media. The only way to stop gun violence, gangs, and sneak dissing on social media is to bring awareness about these issues in the city of Chicago. The way to do this is by having marches and pep rallies. We as Chicagoans have to take action and let our Politicians know that we are tired of the violence in the city of Chicago. We have to make sure that we watch over our neighborhood carefully and closely. That we keep our neighborhood safe and secure for the little kids in the neighborhood. The killings in Chicago that happen are so stupid. It's these young teenagers and gangs trying to make a name for themselves and act tough to impress their peers. The sad thing about it is that they need a gun to do so. Once the parents start watching their child closely most of these immature killings and shootings happen in the city of Chicago. Some neighborhoods in Chicago are terrorized by gangs and gun violence that all the kids don't want to come outside and play. By all of this happening the teenagers between ages 13 and up are influenced by doing it. Only because their friends are doing it and they want their friends to think they are cool. All in all I think the violence won't stop in Chicago until we take action. That we Chicagoans come together and keep each other safe. We must do this to insure that we live in a better city that is big and beautiful that is called Chicago and not chiraq.
Is this really home? By Daniela Zepeda
Please don't kill me!
Please don't kill me
Don't shot I want to grow up! That's the posters around Chicago's neighborhoods to try to stop the violence. Without knowing we are so afraid of our little children to grow up in such a mess up world, where people fight to see who has more power. But by killing innocent children, killing others as well. As a matter of fact gangs have always taken a big part of Chicago's residents, ever since 1919 when the segregation started. Two different groups started fighting over territory over where they were supposed to be. Sadly this violence still happens until now, but now is not because of territory to see who has more power without caring about the ethnicity of the group. In 2014, on the month of July about 278 were wounded and shot and on August 54 murders. The rate of violence in summer is the worst; the gangs have no way to stop. Most of the murders also are students, innocent kids that might be playing outside their house. This innocent kids that are barely growing up seem to even be scare going home or on their way to school. Yet, these gangs take advantages of these kids and try to incorporate them into the wrong path. Chicago is known by "Chiraq" we can't call a place home after all this violence and killing. The killing of innocent kids, for example on a sunny afternoon more like a June day, Aliyah a 6 year old girl was killed, by several gunshots in her abdomen. She later died at Mount Sinai Medical Center. No innocent kid should be killed; they don't get to choose their future. Later on, they had a memorial day to remember her, with lots of balloons and people saying the memories they had of her. But it doesn't stop there, more violence still happens. Theirs more people kill in Chicago rather than U.S soldiers in Afghanistan. Violence is not going to stop ever, but what we could do is help those others that still have the opportunity to succeed. For example theirs this association that helps others, young adults and kids to feel safe to play in the park. Beyond the Ball for 7 years almost have try to get everyone out of the streets, by cleaning the community, doing art, sports, even some of them get to get jobs. It's just the effort you make to succeed in life. No other innocent people have to die, or be afraid of going out. This should be a safe country for those who choose the right path. Everyone has the right to live right and not to be afraid of the violence of "Chiraq's" streets.
Racism Can Kill The "Beautiful Game"
Anthony Gonzalez CW Final
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Hailee Fitch
1st period
June 9, 2015
Socially Awkward
As I'm writing this paper about 32.7 people may be raped.
" Rape: the crime, typically committed by a man, of forcing another person to have sexual intercourse with the offender against their will."
683,000 American women are forcibly raped each year. 56,916 per month; 1,871 per day; 78 per hour; and 1.3 per minute.
"Don't tell me how to dress, tell them not to rape." This quote along with many others are carried around on posters around the world, yet no one listens. Girls are judged by what they wear, called sluts, whores, etc and because of this boys think it's okay to rape because their clothes "provoked" them. Girls nowadays can't wear what they want or what they at one time felt combatable in because they have to be worried about being sexually attacked.
Being sexually attacked can cause so many problems physically and mentally. Almost one-third (31%) of all rape victims developed PTSD sometime during their lifetime; and more than one in ten rape victims (11%) still has PTSD today. PTSD is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Which means each day they relive the trauma of having part of their innocence torn away from them. Rape victims will attempt to avoid thoughts, situations, or people that are reminders of the trauma. Their anxiety will increase so much most of them will be on medicine for it (not including the medicine for depression). Being constantly on guard for danger, and being easily startled is their natural reactions to everything.
Men need to start understanding the word no. Men need to understand that when women are raped they are never the same after this. The girls feel as if they are worthless. Most women who are raped usually go through serious social withdrawals, depression and most of the time substance abuse. The social part is because she doesn't want to be put in the same situation that got her raped in the first place. From the research I have done, it seems like many women feel "dirty" and like they did something wrong to deserve being raped. The rape makes them feel like if they can be used like that they aren't really worth anything. Drug abuse is fairly common since for most women it can be an escape from the feelings they have
Now let's take a moment to pray for the 32.7 people that were possibly raped while I was writing this paper.
Thursday, June 4, 2015
March 4, 2015
Short Story
jackie
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Hailee Fitch
Winfrey 1st period
Food memory
Dance girls
My favorite food memory is that after every dance competition my dance team and I would go eat at portillos. After a long weekend of only being able to eat healthy we got to go and eat the food we actually wanted to eat. It is such a good memory because we would all go together and pretty much take up the whole place. We would push all the tables together and make one big one. We would order so much food it looked like thanksgiving dinner. We would sit around while waiting for our food talking about the weekend and how great we did. Once we all got our food we would say a prayer. It sounds cheesy I know, but we were so grateful for us being able to dance and how good we did over the weekend. We had to do it every time. It was one of the biggest traditions we had. After we prayed we all ate and the whole place got so quite. We were so excited to finally eat something unhealthy nobody talked. All you heard throughout the whole place was chewing, crunching, slushing, munching, gulping, and swallowing. This is such a great memory because these girls and boys will forever be my family. Being able to all sit down and enjoy and amazing meal makes me very happy. After a long, crazy, scary, and emotional weekend I knew we would always come together and be happy to hangout as the big family we were.
Monday, June 1, 2015
Friday, May 29, 2015
Chipotle Kobe
My food memory would have to be the first time I had shrimp tacos. They were so good I remember telling my Dad like "shrimp tacos that's nasty" that was before I had my first one. The first time I had was like April and I didn't want to eat but I just took a bite and it was so good. It felt like I was in taco heaven, but there is no taco heaven. If it was a taco heaven shrimp tacos would go before any kind of tacos. It wouldn't matter if it was stake or beef shrimp tacos to me hands down are the best. I have to have it at least like 2 times every other week at my house. It's just so good I don' care people say about my shrimp tacos. Everybody on this earth needs to try shrimp tacos because they are life. If you try it you will love it forever because they are just so good.






