Privilege

Privilege Is the freedom to peak without persecution Our way to find solution Some form of revolution from man's madness and pollution Our Privilege The motivation to discover Educate without suffer In any direction that we chose the opportunities offer Their Privilege A control by which we are suppressed By the Man, the Boss, the suit and tie dressed Feeding their wisdom from which "they know best" To be the best you need success, but is the best determined by the rest? "They've confused you to think that joy and success is a product, but they never told you that it was a process" A process... Life is a process Now take time to assess this issue that's now a mess California is ranked low on the learning standard within the nation 49th in spending and 30th based on testing for "standard education" What these numbers tell don't show that money is being spent so low for schools that are supposed to bring flow to Educated hearts Educated minds Educated spirits... Don't you hear it? This motto that they speculate causes you to formulate the idea that you belong - Belong to a system A system for democracy A system of individualism A system of ingenuity A system of prejudice Incapability Restriction Expectation Keep in mind that this situation because the world is still turning and some people are still yearning for this privilege that is not earned but given A burden "When you struggle you don't have a choice but to struggle" Schools limit exposure to cultures and ethnic diversity, a struggle Students can't learn about themselves and their culture identity, a struggle An underlying command that tells us to "conform for unity", a struggle What do you know about struggle I sit in class and I try to listen to every lecture, but all I hear is the same story The British men meant this The white men complained about this The black men silenced to even speak Joseph Conrad placing a lock on words and enable actions to speak for themselves "I am weak" The British men have this The white men fancy this The women mindlessly ration means just to get by Virginia Woolf, when describing the scarcity of needs, asks why? But doesn't get an answer, just shrugged off and told that you don't matter Actions are effective when words cannot describe the inner motives that people hide Harmless or not its hard to tell the aftermath that is cast by each spell When you take a step onto the college campus of your future home, you would have never expected or known that the first greeting sign that you would get are popper thrown directly at you Small packaged sized loud explosions kids used for fun - those poppers What was meant for excitement and celebration was now used like some kind of joke or terrorization for us incomers who didn't have any clue on the motivation of these other students Assumptions come into mind like thoughts racing to break the thought process in line Is it cuz I'm new? A freshmen Is it cuz of my small eyes and brown skin? I'm Asian Is it cuz I'm younger than wise but too old to be naive? Is it cuz I'm different than other people who's different than me? Is it cuz I'm talented in somethings that you can't do Or is it cuz I'm doing things that you don't want me to? Take all these questions into consideration because the institution doesn't take time for this memorization of all the possible answers that each person has given Each difference Each line Each message that every person defines to be Their burden Their struggle Their Privilege