JJ's World Views

Tag: Video

  • It Has Been Awhile

    It has been awhile since I last wrote anything.  I have been busy working two jobs.  One that I love working as an Educational Assistant.  I get to work with some remarkable kids.  They all have their issues but I love them all.  I just got done making a video with them which is funny as hell.  We are promoting Marker Recycling doing our own version of both Avengers infinity war and Endgame.  It took me an hour to write and hour to shoot and 3 hours to edit.  I loved every minute of it.

    My second job I am not in love with it but it helps keep me in my home for now.  I work at a local convenience store.  I have done this type of work too many times before.  The people I work with are cool.  But my other job takes so much out of me that i am exhausted when I work there.  I have found that when I work there I hate people more and more.  Don’t ask me why.  I would just say “I feel like I have sold my soul for a paycheck.”  That is how I have felt at many of my old jobs.  The advancement they talk about is only working to make others rich, instead of enriching myself.

  • A Reaction to the “I’m Not Racist” Video

    A Reaction to the “I’m Not Racist” Video

    I posted the “I’m Not Racist” video yesterday on my Facebook page.  Knowing that many will find it offensive.  It was actually in brought to my attention from a person I worked with at the diversity center at school. The video uses the N word a lot from both a white and black man. It was made to make people feel uncomfortable but you must watch it all the way through in order to get the message that the person is getting at. I left the diversity center because I was hearing the N word being thrown around a lot and it disturbed me. But, it is not up to me or anyone else to tell someone what they can or can not say. It is only when we listen and wait till the person is done talking that we start to understand what they are saying. This is one of the hardest parts of living in America. We must listen to the other person and not try to formulate our responses to what they are saying while they are saying it, even if it is hard to hear. This is how we become better as Americans and as human beings. It is through being willing to put ourselves in uncomfortable situations that we learn and grow as people. Those who know me, know that I help to defend the rights of others especially the right to free speech which in my opinion is the most important of all our rights as Americans. This is why I feel we are having so many issues in our country no one is listening to each other. I have the same problem. I have a tendency to start thinking up a rebuttal without listening to what the other person is saying completely. I have also had it done to me as well. Most of us do not even realize that we are doing it, it is just a natural reactionary response that we have.  I have posted the video below.  Please watch it all the way through before passing judgement.

  • Unacceptable

    I found this video this morning and here are my thoughts about it.

    We need to take a good long look inside ourselves.  As someone who suffers from mental illness a story like this speaks volumes.  If I am feeling suicidal I will not be and I will tell others not to call the cops for help.  My biological father also has a mental illness and even though I have not seen him since I was 3, I would not want this to happen to him.  I have my illness under control for now and I try to avoid my triggers as much as possible.  But, as a human I can not avoid them all.  It gets rough at times and these thoughts pop in from time to time.  Deep down I do not want to think this way, but it happens.  This why we need to wrangle in the police they are jumping the gun to much as of late and not really assessing the situation.  If you are a cop or you know a cop, please stop and think get as much information as you can before you fire that weapon.  I know I may lose more friends over this but at this point I just don’t care.  No one seems to be listening to the people of this country at all and we the citizens are paying the ultimate price.  What if this was your family member? What if you were a family member of this Officer, who did the right thing and got fired for it?  This is unacceptable!!!!!!!!!!