REAL RACISM

So I have spent the past two years before coming to DC studying, talking about, and fighting racism and inequality. I have spent countless hours bitching about the system and discovering how divided and unequal and corrupt our society really is. This past two years has been complete bull shit. So we come into the public defender service and right off the bat a kick ass lawyer comes in to talk with us. He gives us stats on DC immediately to set us up with what we will be encountering on a daily basis. Just to give you an ideal here are some stats on the police system in dc: currently it is 70 percent more likely for a black man to get arrested than any white person. Furthermore there are 7 police precincts in the DC area. In district 5 there are three universities including American, Georgetown, and Washington University. The police do not go to district five, they stay in predominant black districts. Does this mean that laws are not being broken in District five, of course not, it means mpd are targeting black people.
The inequality here is amazing. We lately have been visiting several inner city black schools in SE DC, you walk in to the school and there are no computers, the building walls are falling apart, and it is not safe to go outside. Less than 3 miles away in NE Washington close to the capital those kids get the benefit of many coputers, a beuatiful school, ad all the help they need. Might I add that the minority make up of the SE school borders around 95 percent black. NO JOKE.
I am shocked that there is not media all over this, but alas who cares?

Sick but Surviving

So my first week in DC was perfect but shitty all at the same time. I didn't arrive sick, but became sick within just a few days. Also I had a minor break down which for me is really really rare. At the time of my minor break down, I had been sick for two days, had had about 5 hours of sleep for the past week, and was frantically trying to find a place to park my car. It was around midnight and finally I find the police precinct so I can get a visitors parking pass for 10 days. This is of course after stopping for directions from capital police again and discovering I had shut my coat jacket in the door of my car.....which my two very "dependable" friends promptly burst out laughing..... Anyways, so I finally get to the police precinct and am promptly DENIED my visitor parking pass. WHAT BULL SHIT. So this car thing is a real bitch, I can't figure out how to get to a damn grocery store, let alone a target. Also, I have to pay for parking or risk getting parking tickets.
But, despite all I love it. What a paradox. I feel like this is it, I am finally doing something important, and life altering. Not just changing my life but critically changing and impacting other people's lives around me as well. Small insignificant things, like mpd denying me my right to a visitors parking pass, suddenly seem so trivial. I love it, I am growing up. Finally.