Youthful Life: X

The 20s are all about processing what goes on around you, and figuring out what role you play in every situation. No matter what, we are participants in our lives. Things happen, for better and most notably, for worse, but in all happenstances we take part. Whether we are active in what goes on, stand useless as bystander, are the perpetrator or the person who has been impacted - what we do or say (that if we say or do anything) affects us all. Regardless of whether how little you feel the aftermath, the repercussion are real for us all. This is race relations. Yesterday night I was in my residence hall room responding to emails for RHA (residence hall association) at like midnight, and it's been a crazy busy few days (physically strenuous, heavy lifting, tons of walking and stairs). The amount of exhausted I was cannot be even put into words, everywhere I went was falling asleep, public or not. I was just about ready to prepare for bed when of course, I zonked out (mid-email) ...

Being a teenager is all about being aware of where you are and who you're with. College is one of those places that bring people together and it's a clash of the titans (like Sam Worthington style) when worlds collide. Some of the things that college teaches are diversity, awareness and inclusivity. As young people, it's our job to take what we've learned and change the world. Prejudice, bias, ignorance and laziness are no longer excuses. We'll eventually inherit the fight, time to enter the warzone. This past Thursday I had the privilege of attending the 7th annual "Dismantling Rape Culture Conference" or the DRCC in the Davis Student Center. It was an amazing experience that really made me aware of what was going on and the power and responsibility we all share in changing the mindset of our society when it comes to sexual misconduct. I woke up and got dressed and signed in before finding my fraternity brothers, Derrick and Zach in the little loung...

Being a teenager means that you're going to meet some people that surprise you. One of the weirdest things I think, is when you see people who look like normal (as in American) and then they have a foreign accent, like woah, where'd that come from. Here's the thing, if you're going to go to another country, you need to know their language. It's rude and unbecoming for you to assume that everyone speaks your language. People shouldn't have to accommodate you and your foreign self in their own country. That's just plain lazy. So my problem with Spanish, why is it on all the products we buy here in the US? Spanish speaking people should learn how to read and speak freaking English like the rest of us, no special treatment. It's ridiculous, how can you go to a different place and not speak the language, that's just absolutely ridiculous. My parents may be foreign, but in Ghana, English is the primary language, followed by the local dialects. It's n...