Black With No Excuses

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REEDUCATION

One of the biggest reasons why my black people can’t get jobs here in America is because we don’t know the seven learning styles. I feel it’s my job to take the time out and teach it to you right now. Well, once you finish school, you will see that a job will not just be waiting on you to start. The brain has an immediate memory and will drop or keep information within thirty seconds. Only 5 percent of education is kept by lectures and 10 percent by reading. I learned that 20 percent of what I learn comes from audiovisual, so I try to stay online as much as I can, and I love to watch films on whatever I research. Thirty percent of learning comes from demonstration, and 50 percent is when you have discussions in groups. As a leader, I love to learn when I practice by doing, and that’s 75 percent of how I learn. Ninety percent is when you teach others immediately after you learn something, and that’s the deepest learning because you have to know it to reteach it. I really hope I help a lot of my black people when they read this because so many of us just don’t know the seven learning styles, and we just don’t know how the human brain works, and it could really do us all some good. Let me share a little story with you, OK. A man was in a hurry to go somewhere, so he put on his clothes and ran out of the house. He looked right, then he looked left, and then he ran and jumped on his horse. Once on the horse, he began to ride, and everyone looked at him as he speeded away. One man asked him, “Why are you going so fast?” He said, “I don’t know” then he slowed down; then some young lady asked him, “Why are you going so slow must I ask?” and he said, “I don’t know.” Finally, someone asked the man on the horse, “Where are you going?” and he said, “I don’t know, ask the horse.” See, as black people, we have to learn to control our situations and not let them take us away. Don’t be like the man on the horse, OK; set your goals and know where you are going. If you know where you are going, then the horse is just riding you to where you are going, but if you have no clue in life about what you want to be or how you’re going to get there, then you are just riding the horse. 24 Nathaniel W. Brooks This week I’ve been broke as hell, and it feels like when I was young living in the projects. Life is like a game because sometimes you can be doing so good and things can just change around on you and you can find yourself down. Life is just like football to me, and I look at it the same way. My coach is God, and he is whom I ask all my questions to. My teammates are the people I have to deal with in my everyday life. However, just like on a team, the players always change. One day someone may be on your team, and the next day he’s on another side, and you still have to move on. I loved college at the University of Miami because I was a football star, and food was free and housing was free; everything was free. Things are very different for me now at Nova Southeastern University going for my master’s. I get loans that I will have to someday pay back, and at times I feel that there’s not enough money to live off here in Miami, Florida. I make the best out of whatever I get, and I just pray that God (my head coach) will keep me on the field.

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