The Chicago Project

Our trip cincinnati started out bad (with the weather and all) but it turned out every fun. We got to talk to alot of great speakers. Each one had a their own thought on Uran uprising and of the community. What I learned the most out of the trip, besides that proverty is stereotyped, is that each side has their own way of looking at life, but in this case it is proverty. No matter which way you look at it, your will end up with more than one answer to a question, (but you will end up with more knownledge on your question - so you can make your own answer).  With stereotypes, people and the media have have a negative out look on  homelessness and the word mostly used is that they are LAZY!!!  The thing is anyone can be homeless at any moment at any time. They don't plan on being homeless. Sometimes its just bad luck. The thing is that around 60% of homeless people work. Making them NOT lazy. 

Our class went to Cincinnati to learn more about urban poverty. This trip was a lot of fun. I meet some great people. Our first speaker was a African cop. he was involved in the riot that happened in Cincinnati. He was a interesting man. He dressed very professional. Where we meet him at he only lived down the street. All the speakers were pretty cool. They were involved in different kinds situations of poverty such as race, disease, addiction, mentality ,and etc.

We also talked to a man who was once homeless and he found his way out. He now helps out with the homeless shelters. He writes a homeless newsletter and the money goes to help these people out. He is also concerned about how many homeless people are discriminated against. I never knew homeless people were killed and hung by young teenagers my age. Also homeless people died in the cold. I also didn't know that 60% of the homeless in the shelter we attended had jobs. Most of them just had some bad money, relationships, or illness. I found it quite sad considering I used to think that homeless people were just lazy. I feel bad for ever thinking that and I take that thought back. Although there were a few rude homeless people I meet that thought the shelter was supposed to take care of them. In reality, the shelter is to give them a place were they can get started up again. Many of these people have talents such as this artist I meet. He was in his older age but he drew well for his age and he wasn't wearing glasses.

Friday March 14th 2008....The chicago Project took a trip Cincinnati to learn more about poverty....

The whole class came to school..we left the school about 8:00 am in the morning..and we started take our journey to the Big City called Cincinnati....when we got there we had speaker named Mr.Thomas he was the city member....who came from a life of poverty.....

some of the other speakers were:

Mr. Whitehead, Ms.Turnner, And Ms.Leah at the homeless shelter...

The cincinnati trip really gave me a new thing about life. It taught me that people are worse than me and that it ain't a funny thing its sad. People that I didn't even know have a story on why they are where they are at and all that. Some cause they quit trying and some that have no reason at all. But you see people in life they are trying to make there lifes better than what they are and what they have become so to me people that are homeless they are trying to make a life for themselfs. The riots are caused due to people that are not getting along. I think we just all need to agree on everything instead of fighting or yelling. Then we would know why not to start riots. So this is how the cincinnati trip inspired me and what i think

the pictures i am looking at is a black man trying to get out of a pit that is entitled racical inequality.....the next pit is Economic inequality......

then the man is trying to get out the pit then hs comes to a stop and right in front of him is another pit which he has to try and get out of.....five facts on this topic is....

1)The Watts Riot ( a 21 year-old black man was leaving a friends house and going home for the night, the man had been drinking(vodka and orange juices)when he got into his car and was going down the road he started swerving in a 35 zone and at 50 mph) he had a rough life before hand. that was the one thing that started the riot in los angeles.

ONE OF THE REASONS I THINK THE RIOTS HAPPENED IS BECAUSE OF POLICE BRULTALITY. THE TAC SQUAD ROAMED THE STREETS SEARCHING FOR BARS TO RAID AND PROSTITUTES TO ARREST. IN 1967 POLICE SEVERELY BEATED  A PROSTITUTE BY THE NAME OF BARBARA JACKSON.AND ANOTHER REASON IS POOR HOUSING. DETROIT HAD A LONG HISTROY OF HOUSING DISCRIMINATION STRETCHING BACK TO THE TURN OF THE CENTURY WHEN BLACK IMIGRANTS FIRST ARRIVED IN THE CITY AND MIDDLE-CLASS AFRICAN AMERICANS SOUGHT TO INTERGRATE PREDOMINANTLY WHITE NEIGHBORHOODS.AND PEOPLE BULIT A SIX FOOT HIGH,ONE FOOT WIDE CONCRETE WALL ALONG EIGHT MILE ROAD TO SEPARATE THEMSELVES FROM POTENTIAL BLACK NEIGHBORS.

The riots that happened in the 1960's came after the racial inequalty fight. These Riots was when Afrian Americans figured out that their was another inequality that was biger and and it involved economics and alittle racail differences. Mostly these riots were between Afrian American people and white Police officials. A official pulled over a young man for dunk driving and it turned into a big event and the official called for back up. This made a riot and the officials arrested more than the young man that day. Officials always tried to out number it the could or at lest tryed to stay in control. Some cops Stated that they felt that it was their job to keep white communities white. Housing was another alone with jobs. Afrian Americans got the salty end of the lollypop. NOT the sweet end. They were the last hired and the first fired. Making a large number for unimployed African Americans. Housing was also hard. Willie Mays (baseball's greatist center fielder) was rejected from renting a home that he wanted, until the Mayor PUBLICLY invited Willie to stay as a guest until it was resolved. Kids got so fusturated that they would start vandizing. They were the riots in Plainfield. Some went far as stealing

This is why I think riots happend...

Riots happen because of unequal rights. There are some things that they did that weren't allways right. When the civil right movers were mad they would flip cars over and then set it on fire. The police would then come back and bring in K-9 dogs and they would also fight back with bats and sticks. The military then would interven and then they were really in trouble. Eventually if things were still out of hand then they would call the Nation Guard and Highway Patrol, the police would respond to alleged gunfire by opening themselves on the community center and start surrounding buildings. After riddling it with hundreds of bullets the police found no gunmen or any weapons but they only found several children huddling in the corner scared.

The pictures are of a black man pulling himself out of a pit of racial inequality, and he is very happy and relieved to be out of that pit.  What he realizes in the second frame is that he crawled out of the first pit into a much larger pit.  This pit is economic inequality. 

I believe that some of the reasons there were major economic inequalities are included in the following.....

1. In Hunters Point, San Francisco in the year 1958, Willie Mays, baseball's greatest center fielder and star of the San Francisco Giants, could not rent the house of his choice in Forest Hill until Mayor Christopher publicly invited Willie to stay as his guest until it was resolved.

I believe that riots were still present because of racial inequality. After the people were digging themselves out of it, economic inequality was present. Examples of riots would be like in New Jersey there was a population of 1/3 black. One night a fight broke out in a diner. Those black youth who were involved damaged store windows and threw rocks at police cars on there way home, from that day on rioting continued and kept building more tension. Several hundred people gathered at a local park and the police told them to go home because the meeting was unlawful. Then the riots started again. The police were caught completely off guard. Later in the evening a white officers chased the black youth in the ghetto. He shot and wounded the black youth. The officer tried to leave for help and a mob beaten him and killed him with his own gun. Still that same night weapons were stolen from a factory. Police tried a truce to get the guns back. They were frightened on the fact of gun and weapon being supplied through the town. Not one gun was given back, so they called the National Guard to search through houses. Residents felt that their own constitutional rights were despoiled. Later the search was called off. Several weeks later the National Guard still searched for guns. This example proves the fear the white and police had on the African community. They did what they could do to get themselves out of the ghetto or at least tired to prove a point. This was the reason for riots still present.