Prison has become modern day slavery.

Lately I've been working on this project for Ms. Hegeman class which is social action of our choice. The social action that I really wanted to do was has prison is modern day slavery. I wanted to do this social action because while I was reading Beloved and Heart of Darkness they were talking about how prisoners were treated badly and were being used for cheap work. Reading these two books made me think about the system we have today and how they are setting up our youth for failure. The video that I made was showing how nothing really change within the criminal system and how in many ways it is still slavery. The video contains images showing how the bunks beds in prison looks similar to slave ships, how the both prisoners and slaves were chains around their ankles, wrist. and neck, and many more. (I don't want to give to much away because I want you guys to see it). Also the video contains statics such as how schools leads minorities to prison, and how the United States have more people in prison than any other country. The video is really inspiring because you really get to see how history really repeats itself. I was very surprised on how similar slavery and prison really is. Its sad to say that we live in a world where the people who are suppose to help and protect us are the main one's breaking African Americans and Latinos down. Our young males  today have been affected by this. They don't really see a care in the world anymore because this whole country is against them. School is becoming another thing to avoid because the school systems teach us how to depend on other people and work for someone else instead of teaching about our real history and motivating us to do better and why we should do better because the world we living is really a whites man. I really want people to sit down and actually see this video because this is an issue that keeps getting worser  by the day. To see the video go to my instagram and click the link in my bio or go to YouTube and type in kamali social action project.

Free write

So this morning started out a little rough. I had attitude because I was tired and I didn't feel like doing work. I tried falling asleep in class but Ms. Hegeman kept waking me up so I caught an attitude with her. I felt bad because Ms. Hegeman is nice to me so I went to apologize to her. Later on in the day things started to go well especially around 6 period because I found out that I got the Carlotii scholarship. I really wanted this scholarship because it comes with a Mac book and money for books..  This scholarship  will be helpful for me because I can use the money for my gap that I have and also go towards the loans that I need to take out. Besides that my day went well afterwards. I just couldn't believe that I really got it because whenever I went to go ask Mr. Lin about it he will always tell me that the man is still deciding because the essays were all good. After I had that I was like damn and started looking for other scholarships. I guess good things comes to those who wait because I was waiting patiently to hear back and things were able to work in my favor.

Other than the scholarship I am counting down the days for prom because it is coming right around the corner. I been waiting for prom since forever and it is finally coming.