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About me - Michael Beckford

Growing up as a foster child until the wee age of nine, twenty two year old Michael Beckford was striving to find himself, his family and his dreams. He was once a prodigy of the state, a statistic of his impoverished community and a kid who grew up poor

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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Anger
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Is it sad or does it really make you mad, Understanding that you are poor. You know that you are in need but You want to learn how to read. It seems that you may loose your rights, Struggling just for a dim of light. Wanting to vote, but it's hard to do it, No one showed you because they never got to it. People laughing in y... More..

Society & Lifestyle > African-American Issues Why black athletes dominate sports (and why people are afraid to talk about it)
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Black Athletes have been at the helm of success, once given the right to participate in his or her specific sport. Black athletes dominate sports not purely based on muscle mass and speed. Black athletes dominate sports based upon the psychological reference that he or she must be successful in his or her brand of sports in ... More..

Society & Lifestyle > African-American Issues The Beauty of the African-American
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Have you ever taken a picture and captured it at many different angles, and still did not understand what it means? Well I have, I've been taking that picture for the past twenty-two years of my life. Each time I think I've got the right footage, life happens and distorts it. For some it could be a baby on the way, for other... More..

Society & Lifestyle > African-American Issues Competition between black men
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Sure there is a distinctive representation of competition between black men. Black men compete with each other in sports, for jobs, record sales, and of course woman. It's no doubt that a race in which was once made to breed bigger, faster, stronger kids would still continue to compete at the dawn of the millennial. In many ... More..

Education > Education (Other) Should public school children wear uniforms?Smallicon
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Public school children should not be subjected to wearing uniforms. Not only do uniforms take away from their first amendment rights, but it also passes judgment on those individuals whom choose to be different. God did not make everyone to look the same, eat the same and certainly not dress the same. Public school children ... More..

Society & Lifestyle > Racism Evaluating whether racism can ever be stopped
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The moment in which racism will truly stop, would be the moment at midnight when the clock hits twelve. Just like the Cinderella fantasy, so is the gesture that racism will cease. Even if everyone became one race when the clock hits twelve, there will still be many facets of racism. Not of course against a specific race, but... More..

Society & Lifestyle > African-American Issues African-Americans are really free
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Dictionary.Com's first definition of free is to enjoy personal rights or liberties, such as a person whom is not in slavery. Yes, blacks are not in a physical form of slavery whereas the white slave master beat you across the back for not working hard enough on the plantation. Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls there is a ... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Peace
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Life, love, joy and peace; Why can't we fight this clash in the East! Prosperity, charity hopes for tomorrow; Sometimes it may end up bringing us sorrow. Pain, gain love yo name; why can't we find another Saying. Life, love, joy and peace; Why can't we fight this clash in the East! Shooting, killing, frying too, who's respon... More..

Health & Fitness > Medical Concerns & Issues Things I'd say to my doctor (if I had the nerve)
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Communities around the nation are being over stressed, over worked and underpaid to take care of the citizens whom are poor, lower middle class and whom do not have the resources for their own private doctor. These facilities in which are over worked, over stressed and underpaid are your local public health care centers. I b... More..

Society & Lifestyle > African-American Issues Evaluating whether African-Americans have abandoned the dream
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African Americans have long become victims of society's woes, questionnaires and unnecessary rhetoric. There are indeed many psychologist and case writers whom have written hundreds of books on blacks and the black family; most of which are white. Rarely do the self proclaimed specialists take a deep breath inside the very n... More..

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