My Community

John Jr
June, 2011

Shepherdsville, Kentucky is where my community is. We have a very small community but pretty much very easy going. There are some issues around my community that may have racism issues such as, gender, looks, or speech in school or sometime even with jobs on who and when someone can work somewhere. These are really little problems that we have and if you ever visited you would see this as well. In my community the members that live near me do look like me in many ways. Mostly because I live in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, that are all white skinned that lives around me. Most of the people who are in my community are females, which is weird because you would think it would be even. Now we are also different in my community because some of us are short, tall, fat, skinny, have brown hair or even have blond hair. I know my son has blond hair and I have brown. We look a like but the hair color is completely different. The leaders that we have in our society actually treat people like me very well. We get respected just like others who do not look like me. There is not a lot of racism in my community compared to other places. There is an issue in school with bullying but its basically picking on anyone and not just one individual who may be different. Our leaders look at our society as we are all the same time of person. I believe that others in my community treat people like me the same that they would treat their own mother. The reason I feel like this is because everyone around that lives in Shepherdsville, Kentucky actually sees one another as a brother or sister. I moved here from Mount Washington, Kentucky and I have never seen so many people know one another in such a big environment. People in Shepherdsville are so friendly to one another as well as to the new comers. It used to be when a person of a different culture or race came to Shepherdsville that people of the society would not be as friendly but we have grown into a better community and actually offer for more and more to come. Now there may be innicdents where people in my community treat some people different. In this storey at http://www.wave3.com/story/14663811/hearing-held-for-cat-torture-suspect, this was about a guy from shepherdsville who tortured cats for a experiment. Now I will say that a lot of people in our community do look at him different and may be some racism there because of the type of person we know now he is. My texts and work manuals actually contain information about a lot of people and other businesses. I work as a third party administrator with insurance companies. We learn all about how other people all around the world live their lives and see what they can actually be reimbursed with their medical by our company. My texts sometimes have conversations about others in my community but never anything bad. I have learned over the years that everyone has regrets and if you feel that down the road you may regret texting or saying something, then you shouldn’t at all. I don’t believe that the local media represents people like me. I watch the news or read about it online every single day. I see and hear so many things that state there was a robbery, child abuse, or murder that it floors me that there are people out there like that. I feel that in Shepherdsville, which is close to Louisville, Kentucky is a very calm community. Seeing things on the media about even child abuse I don’t feel that they are really showing what type of community we are. Some people decide on their own time to make wrong decisions. One example is at this website from this storey http://www.wave3.com/story/13717196/bullitt-county-mother-behind-bars-on-child-abuse-charges. This is about a Girl who is a young mother like myself but let someone abuse her son. She never reposted it and that is why she is jail. But the more you read about the storey they still are researching and they believe that the boyfriend is the one who harmed her child. He was in jail for about a day and now is out on the street. This I feel is so different from us in the community. She is just one of those people who made some mistake and we as a community can not let that go on us. Similarities with my leaderships in my community are very few. We agree on what the law is and when people should be sitting in jail or just get a ticket. We also agree on the way that the time limit for individuals under the age of sixteen to be out is eleven at night. The differences that we have are a lot. I know that the leadership when they arrest someone for child abuse, they will give them there punishment but usually wont hold out there end of keeping them off the streets. They also usually get their kids back. I disagree with a lot of the law once someone in Kentucky is convicted because they let people off to easy. I do feel that the minority groups are taken into interest in my community because the leaders if the community have been in that place before. I mean I was watching on the news and see that now in Kentuckian they are going to allow food stamps to be used at fast food places. I disagree but this is a part that they are trying to take their interests into the affect. If I had the power to change any inequities in the community I live in I would defiantly jump at the position. I would change the fact at first that when people are being put in jail they usually get out on bail or probation if they have good behavior. I would be the one that would actually look at the crime and see if it was my child abused, or the one who was robbed what I would want their punishment to be. I mean the judge is not looking at the people who are affected by what one person did. I would try to change the school districts so that children who live 1 mile away are not going to a school that is farther than the one they are by. This is another debate we have where too much kids in school they move students from one school to another. Building another school and making sure that our budget would be able to sweeze this in is one way that I would do this. For the judge and law enforcement, I would make sure everyone who is hired felt the saem way that I felt. That is the only way to be effective. One thing that is related to race that is in the text is school. School a lot of times have to deal with other children picking on someone of a different race. I don’t believe that schools in my community are like this because the children I believe are just mean. I mean they don’t look at a childs color, they look at clothes, just genetics looks, and how they sound. I believe that kids that are bullying like this really needs to be punished to learn that this is wrong. Another is the gender. There are certain jobs that actually will not hire your if you are pregnant, female, or male. A lot of call center jobs they actually take woman in this community more than males. With tire and macanic jobs they take males over female. I think this is unfair and it’s a part of racism that is going on in my community. We are usually all nice when its passing someone in the street or saying hello, but I guess we do have some racism that is not just on how someone culture is. My community is a great place to be overall. I feel that the racisms in the community and how people are to one another are about even. I think no matter where you are, that you will have those few people who just cant not be nice at all, but for the most part the community I live in is very friendly. The leaders are very much respected as are we as citezens are respected by them. The changes I would make and disagreements that I feel are also never going to change as long as this community stays the way they are.
References
http://www.wave3.com/story/14663811/hearing-held-for-cat-torture-suspect

http://www.wave3.com/story/13717196/bullitt-county-mother-behind-bars-on-child-abuse-charges