Last post was April 2009, that's over a year ago. That's crazy. So, I've since moved back home to the Bay, and I worked for a year (technically I suppose I volunteered with a stipend) for AmeriCorps at a non-profit organization in Oakland Chinatown. It's been great and has helped me feel like I'm a little bit more back on track to what I want to be doing.
That said, I recently passed a crossroads of taking another AmeriCorps position here, taking an affordable housing property manager (landlord) position, or making big bucks with no certainty in telecommunications. It felt great to have some options for the first time in a while, but I dismissed all of those to move back to the East Coast to take another AmeriCorps program and go back to school. This was a very difficult decision that involved multiple layers and people.
I'm excited.
So keeping with my old hopes of reviewing Salvador Dali's work - here's Temptation of St. Anthony. I'm just going to present the images and leave them up to interpretations.
This also has raised some concerns for me, more information here.
I'm sure many will argue that it's a trivial issue for middle school elections, and others such as the administrators noted, "it was intended to ensure racial diversity". I guess this is an example of how that doesn't work out so well. Regardless.
"Few forfeit future"
Microcosm of backward theories frozen in time
You'd think with global warming
We'd have melted away decades old racism
Coming together, working for a common cause.
Maybe I'm being too idealistic
Maybe I'm being too harsh
But either way Nettleton we're telling you
Change your ways cause the truth is shining through.
Like sunshine descending down from the heavens
Follow the path across the rainbow to the pot of gold
Join us as we melt away and pave a new road for equality.
And no screw age-old metaphors for diversity like rainbows
For inclusion, we need to really get through not just think happy thoughts.
It's one thing to simply state your intent for "equal opportunity"
But how do you intend to monitor change to avoid "adversely affecting minority representation?"
Those are strong promises from a school with a policy for the last 30 years.
Superintendent Taylor fill us in on your plan, own up to accountability.
This sounds like the typical spew from bureaucratic higher-ups
Are you so far disconnected from the community that this has never been a cause for concern?
Few forfeit future, few stand to forget
Few lay low and allow decisions to be made for them
We are changing the silent masses to an engaged society
Sick of being talked down to and adamantly enraged
Coming together and set to make change.
Prepare yourself.
