About me

Hey my name is Robert Tapia. I am currently attending Southwestern College with my major being Criminal Justice and my minor being Psychology.  





“You will never be intelligence; so why even proceed into your education, you're basically setting yourself up for failure.” After i heard that many times I would start to believe it and let those words invite the goals set in life. Even though I am an dyslexia student; I found out  that i have so much potential but people don’t see that. They are just being stereotype towards me because I have a harder time explaining myself than others. Being stereotype basically means that you're judging someone on their  appearance than taking the time to feel where that person is coming from. I am the guy that has a growth mindset but at the same time have the lack of motivation from others to help me keep the mentality i  first  had when i set my goals.  The disability i have  makes me feel distance from others because they think differently  of me and don't even give me a chance to show off my skills.

1     Have you ever been asked by your professor to go in front of the classroom filled with 36 students or more and read a dictionary? Yeah; I bet we all have but do the letters flip around on you while you’re trying to read it? Not all of us I bet; just the really special ones. This made me distant from learning with other.

      It took me a while to figure out why this would happen; it’s called dyslexia. Dyslexia is when you see numbers or letter that look similar to each other but your brain flips them making it harder to read or write.  

    

     Someone told me I would never make it to college with my weird uneducated brain and I always respond “Watch me douche bag.”  But look at me now, I have a 3.4 GPA and I am a college student.  Since I am not an arguing type I believe I can just prove people wrong but actually doing it; instead of talking and saying you’ll do it. It makes others think of you as an ambition person. What made me engage into this was motivation and dedication. Those two methods are good especially if you’re striding for greatness. This made me take full control of my disability. I still mess up but now I am way more confidence. The advise i would like to give everyone that reads this, just push yourself to the hardest limits out there and watch it pay off in the long run. You are an amazing person so get out there and show everyone what you got.

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Being racist is low key now and days

Have you heard these fares before; “What do you call a Mexican midget? A paragraph cause he's too short to be an essay.” “What kind of cans are there in Mexico? Mexicans!” “Why do all black people run fast? Because all the slow ones are in jail.” Am I the only one that hears these? I understand that they’re just jokes but some people might catch it really affective to them. 

Us as people need to know that jokes are funny to a citrate extent. I experienced this one day when I was exploring the grocery store with my grandmother. We walked through the dairy, meat and fruit sections. Once we were about to check out, my grandmother forgot to get a bag of beans so I had to wait in line to save our spot. While my grandmother was getting the beans I overheard an older man say a slight joke about a Mexican lady that passed my grandmother. He stated “why doesn’t she get her bag of beans and get out of the way?” To be honest I knew that was rude but that didn’t change my attitude towards that man. Although once my grandmother returned she heard him loud and clear.

1    This woman got super-heated and stood up for her Hispanic rights. The situation I was in you wouldn’t believe; I had to hold this woman’s earrings for god’s sake. But lesson that I learned made me realized that Stereotype is different from racism. Stereotype is judging someone you haven’t got the time to know them. Racism is making fun of someone’s culture to please their childish laughter. My grandma set those guys straight and made me want to have pride and authority like that. So next time you time about approaching someone with a joke; make sure it isn’t racist enough to put you in an awarded position.

Red and Blue are just colors

Blue and Red are just colors right or does it have another meaning? It actually does. Blue symbolizes Crips and Red represents Bloods. The Crips are one of the largest and most violent associations of street gangs in the United States. The Bloods are made up of various sub-groups known as "sets" between which significant differences exist such as colors, clothing, and operations, and political ideas which may be in open conflict with each other. 

 

I have never been face to face with a blood or Crip but I have seen some of our idols reaping those colors such as snoop dogg and lil Wayne.
 
I read an essay about this and it really expired me to think before you join any of these gangs. It was by a woman named Elvia Bautista. Elvia described in her essay by leaving someone lonely can make that person you love dearly may fade away in time instantly. She uses a lot of personal experience such as family involved in gangs and a brother being shot to death at age 16 for wearing his favorite color; blue. She gave examples of what people put on the graves. Flowers, shot glasses, little homies, etc. Bautista believes that's everyone who dies deserves flowers or at least something on the graves because whoever doesn't grace the people that died left out. I agree with her because if my mother would die or anyone in my family passed away I would visit them forever, I would make the time of day to visit that person I love dearly. 
 

Elvia stated that the boys who shot her brother are underground as well. She drops off flowers to them and her brother. I wouldn't do that because those are the people that cause his death but to forgive and forget is the most powerful weapon you can use towards someone. For a woman like Elvia to have so much forgiveness that take a lot of emotional experience to outcome. 

Me for one it would take a lot of practice to be we're she's at, emotionally and physically strong. The lesson she's trying to explain threw her essay is to not judge someone by the colored they represent but by the person within. I can relate to this because I had a similar experience when I was a child. I was around the age of 14 walking home from middle school. It was only a Forty Five minute distance from to my house from the school. I would always take a trail for a shortcut on my way home. As I was walking home I approached a group of older teens around the age of 19. I simply tried to walk past them but since they saw I was a chubby kid they approached me with jokes. I laughed and kept walking but one thing led to another. One of the guys grabbed me and another guy punched me in my stomach. The pain was extremely painful like a shotgun bullet hitting your bare skin with no bulletproof vest. Luckily it wasn't a real gun or I wouldn't be here right now. just thank god for another day of light.

Microaggressions really impacts the media

Microaggression is a theory that hypothesizes that specific interactions between those of different race, culture or gender. Microaggressions impacts many topics in our community such as the Media, Daily races experiences and the customs and tradition.

The media impacts our society by making us look up to them for a role model figure which should be our parents. In the article "The myth of the Latina woman" by Judith Ortiz Cofer; she talks about how hard it is to be a Latin woman. As young girls, they are influenced in their decisions about clothes and colors by the older woman on television; making them believe that they aren't as beautiful as them.

In our everyday lives we all have experiences some type of microaggressions. Racial microaggressions are the belief  and everyday slights, insults, indignities. Studies support the fact that people of color frequently experience microaggressions that is a continuing reality in their day to day interactions with friends, neighbors, co-workers , teachers plus employers in academic, social and public setting.

In conclusion, i think we all should stick with the race and identity god provided for us. So what if your colored or speak another language; just appreciate the gift of life and just enjoy being yourself; don't let anyone tell you otherwise.  

Reviving the real Jcole

 When Jcoles  album "Cole world: the sideline story" came out on September 27, 2011 he had alot of inspiration about his life by including personal reference such as problems in his past time experience has been making a real big impact by interfering with daily career as a rapper and music producer. Coles album hit Platinum he said the reason why he got there was because he spoke from his mind and soul to get the message out there to the community and to how it really is behind the sense. On that album Jcole made a song called problems, in this song he talks about responsibilities, family issues, racsim and the social media.

In first verse he starts out by stating "he knows that his rent is due and his landlord keeps reminding him like if he didn't know." Thats basically responsibilities that he accomplish. Another thing he brings up is his grandmother that is recently still ill and almost close to death. his brother was send to jail and his mother is still addicted to crack. Cole involves his family issues to reach out to our community's to let us know that he goes through similar challenges and obstacles in his life as well.

The second verse of problems Jcole talks about racsism. He says "why are you pulling me over, I didn't disobey the law? He asked them clearly is because I'm black and you think I can't afford a black Mercedes?" Cole really wanted other people to see how the police treat African-American rappers that have fame and money differently. This reminded me of the word stereotype. The reason why is because in Jcoles point of spective the police are judging him by his color and addressing him as a broke man. But matter of fact cole graduated from St's John University with a Bachelor degree. His major in business  and minor in communication.

   At the end Jcole basically just want everyone To know that we all go through problems. No matter how big or small they are we will get through them. Someone else is probably going through something way worse than you are, So be grateful that you are still striding for it.

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