Thank You Mr Rishi, For Caring about those of us that made the mistake of going to prison. I didn't plan on being convicted of Aggravated Battery, in the year of 2012. Location at Lansing correctional facility, inmate #104216 became like my social security number for the 36 months served and 36 months on parole. I had never been to prison, I did a lot of county jail after leaving the foster homes and group homes. But Lansing correctional facility was a different ball game, I didn't know a single person on the inside. Not a friend, family member or associate. At the age of 21, I shot the man that was sexual abusing my niece. I had no idea what to expect inside of prison, only the stories and movies I seen so I was ready to defend myself or lose my life trying if someone cause harm to me. But to my surprise it was nothing like I thought it would be, I was place in max population for my first 90 days, and for some reason everyone that I came in contact with was serving life sentences or had 30 years or more. These individuals showed me the positive program that prison had to offer, I got my GED in 2013 just 1 year into my 36 months, as time passed I started reading and studying. Asking myself what I really want out life? and how to get it? Being incarcerated gave me a chance to be still & Think, the world on the outside moves so fast. I didn't realize that I wasn't creating a value of myself or giving my children the father they deserve. So, After Getting my GED, I prepared myself for starting a nonprofit organization, and I did just, "KUSH VILLAGE OF THE BLUE NILE". was filed the moment I got out of prison with the state of Kansas City Missouri. Well, me being a felon people didn't give me chance to show my changed mindset, so it never got off the ground. I didn't stop there, I started at Everest community college for dental assistant- diploma program. I completed that got my diploma in 2016. You see, I told myself that giving up wasn't a option. I servived in place that most people wouldn't, and sad to say I seen personally for those that didn't. Now I'm currently working on Associate Degree in the area of Early Childhood Development. We are now in the second semester and I'm so ready for this career choice. The motivation that I use is my children and their educational future as well as a stable foundation to establish their own career choices and family values. I don't believe that there is a chance that I would ever want to stop learning or educating myself with the skills needed to properly demonstrate becoming successful member of society and possibly and mentor for those who have similar backgrounds. Thank you for letting share my story.

I was Born into adoption, NEVER knowing of my real Mother or Father until death of my foster DAD I think 🤔:. Hell I still really don't know who my dad is.... at the time just as I was helping Wash my father's hair his head violence of shaking stiff muscles water splashing in the hands of a 4 year old boy.. IT WAS AT THIS POINT MY LIFE WILL TAKE A CHANGE FOR THE CRAZY 😂. BFR!.. as I was coming from school in a small town of String Town Oklahoma.. I WAS taken OUT THE YARD!! By a bold black man and a fat black man. Yeah really this is facts.. just about 6 years old at the time had no idea 💡 what was going on but this was my introduction into THE FAMILY I NEVER IN KNEW;! facts.. So now coming upon like a hour of driving with a scared kid. THESE TWO BLACK MF... Is my first cousin on my mom side of the family. The storyline told was that I had been kidnapped!!!! Like yeah facts.. And they we're my rescue.. My first life was good we had a farm with some cattle. And my grandma in my FIRST FAMILY HOUSE was right across the street from the church. And u don't know how goooood homemade peanut brittle MMM, Now I'm in road to Post University for early childhood education cuz I believe that if someone would have been able to talk to me and guide me with the proper education the tools I needed to succeed in life then I wouldn't have went through some of the hardships that I had gone through. My plan is to initiate what it is I've learned by incorporating it into my business I'm an independent contract driver I drive 26 ft box trucks for no contact loads and I would like to offer that opportunity to other individuals who might not have a financial stability. My goal is to establish a headquarters in low income areas where the opportunities may not be available to children or adults for that matter. And also it is to leave behind the legacy for my kids to be able to build their foundation off of without having to struggle as hard as we did growing up in a society that seems to be divided with no direction on accommodating the overall goal of survival. If given the opportunity to expand my educational knowledge and introduce skills needed I believe that it will create a economical foundation for generations to come.

Hello to all who this might concern, my name is Thomas Frazier. I am currently enrolled at Post University for Early Childhood Education for my online associate's degree. The reason I chose this course is because I have three children of my own who are currently living in Kansas City Kansas where I resided for the last 11 years. Just last year alone due to gun violence the death toll had reached over 100 in just three months of the year of 2022. So, I'm very familiar with the circumstances of individual's and family's with children going through senselessness act of violence ages range from 13 and older. In the year 2021, in The city of Des Moines Iowa. gun violence was brought in the farm of my first cousin being killed by his daughter. Shot in the face outside of the nightclub, all over an argument about her and her safety and the safety of his granddaughter. She was 25 years old and my cousin was 46 years old, only trying to guide his daughter and protect his baby girl from a gentleman who had been beating on her and using her. Now you wouldn't expect for a daughter to kill her father in such away that we had to have a casket because he had no face. My cousin Marcus who we nickname Jaw's because he had really fat cheeks as a child. He was also my first cousin which means my mom's sister's son who is the oldest of the 3 total. It was awesome because my birthdays our in the same year, his birthday was July 9th and mine is July 10th so we really had to connected Bond. Its painful because not too long ago we had a family reunion and I was able to spend time with him before this event had occurred. The outcome of the whole ordeal ended three lives in total. The life of my cousin, the life of his daughter who is now serving a life sentence. And now her daughter is left without a mother or a grandpa or a father. Impressions that is permanently in-stained on her subconscious will either make her life destructive or she will use it as a positive tool to provide success in her own way. Accepting the circumstances that she couldn't control. I sit back and ask myself who can I reach? and how can I reach them? My career of Early Childhood Education, is where it starts. We must reach the children at an earlier enough age to educate them about gun violence and circumstances of violence. I'm Educating my own children first about gun violence and violent circumstances of life in general. I understand that our children have 2 life influences school & home. When children go to school they have an environment of influence from teachers and social peers. That environment changes once they hit the threshold of their homes because circumstances of living are different. every day we should have educational materials and active involvement from parent's living in low income communities. Where gun violence is promoted and murders go unsolved in areas of poverty-stricken home's. When children are actively involved in a not so good living invirement, being equipped with the correct productive knowledge and skills. Gives families a equal chance to make better decisions when faced with a challenging life styles and social interactions with peers. We must be willing to make the change we must be willing to tell our kids the truth no sugar coating all facts about life.... If we don't someone else will.

My life after being adopted.... I was 10 years old when I was woke up to the sounds of my brother's and sister screaming at my mom to wake up, she was know to be drunk and pass out on the couch or still drinking from the day before. Not in this case. But, in the projects know as the "Vietnam Gangster Blood" gang project's in Omaha NE. My older brother had to run down to a pay phone, yes this was in the good year of 1995. You gotta be there to know... Anyway my mom is unresponsive on the couch, Come to find out she has swallowed her tongue and couldn't breathe. So my brother called the ambulance. This is a house of 5 kids of a single mom welfare participant. Now at that time this blood gang project was so dangerous the the ambulance had to be escorted in by the police to the unit of housing. Not understanding that there was a woman who was on the verge of death if not there already through alcohol drugs as I said upstairs me my second oldest brother we were told that Mom was dead right there in the room flat out what was I supposed to do? I had already been pulled back into a family from which I was adapted from when I was an infant so the introduction of so many things that I was seeing were new to me I came from a small town stringtown Oklahoma a place most people would never even known existed. I was raised by my father's day for the first five years of my life then he died for the brain in your written while limited as I was washing his hair.

The Death of my older sister Shanta, 2005 brain aneurysm 2 of them actually and she was pregnant with my niece or nephew I never got the chance to know. Still to this Day 2023, I'm still grieving and wanting her to be there, as we watch her 3 children become adults. Which She had prior to death. which have all graduated high school and living strong lives of their own. I cry still sometimes in the morning, with the thought of seeing my sister in the hospital bed taking her last breath. Watching the love which was supposed to be spread throughout her children and family, friends, relationships leave her body. I sit and think of the words she might say to me when I become victim or predator to hardships and achievements. How would that hug feel when I we say "see you later" after just a day with my big sister? What wisdom was taken from us? In our minds of science and understanding we can only hope to not break down sometime. I really have never accepted what I don't understand stand. But I learned to live with it, the pain is reality that's it real she's not coming back. And I want too hold that so I never forget and I never stop listening for her voice or feeling of that warm I love you with everything I got Hug. My Sister Shanta was 26 when she died of 2 brain aneurysms and the loss of my niece or nephew. I hold on too her every day for the rest of my life.

Generational wealth is an economical foundation built to sustain family through finance assets properties or inheritance for a lifetime passing down through tradition decades centuries dynasties have created legacies to pass down to their children grandchildren so forth. Understanding generation of wealth to me a man who is an entrepreneur for The last 5 years I've had my hands in a few things that allowed me to see the economical wealth of being a producer rather than a consumer sometimes we fail to realize the line between becoming a consumer and being a producer when you become a producer, you can monopolize a community a world a nation as a producer you can consume the same things. My destiny is to monopolize, I've lived a life of a consumer I live the life of a producer I choose the top ladder. I will show that my legacy will live on for this life and the life that follow and the lives that follow that if anything else I must do is build a foundation the financial world growth and education and how to execute properly and society. Prime example during the first year of the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic everything was shut down, no one was leaving and no one was trying to be exposed to whatever it is that was out there getting us sick and killing off Us by the masses. Understanding there's going to be an economical shift I had to adjust my social skills my development skills and my mental skills to accommodate the lifestyle that was to come what did I become I became a lawn care and a handyman business involved with a partner who showed me the ropes as internship I've had to create a home build decks install uninstall while also making a landscape that is for those of a family friend business anyone who may encounter beauty by the natural elements of this Earth. The hard thing about this path is that it's lonely you can't be the same that you want to be when it comes to changing things that you want to see I don't understand why it's mathematic is but when you see what you are becoming and you want to reflect a different Outlook those around you don't seem to want to be involved they want to see you stay in the same situations the same areas the same time frame and the same mindset so I have found this road to be very lonely very misunderstanding and very confusing but the same time very encouraging very powerful very dedicated very achievable for that which I stand I'm going to achieve the goals that I set forth out and see in my head in my mind put down on paper build up tear down all the do it again over and over again that's my legacy economically mentally and socially.

I was born in 1987 into house of addicted parents alcohol and crack using with no college education as parents too five other siblings, I was a juvenile when incarcerated at the age of 14 for attempted burglary and then after that foster care and then went to county jail for a number of years back and forth, my last stop was prison in 2012 where I spent just about 36 months incarcerated. After my incarceration I got out with the attitude of self rebuilding self-motivation and self-understanding I put together a non-profit organization called because you listen to the Blue Nile that I wanted to establish and Branch off with the family but none of them more interested so I started working through temp services to support myself it was only way I could find employment no one would hire an ex feeling that was on parole for 36 months I also attended Everest college where I started in 2015 for dental assistant and upon completion of the course is I found out that I could not get certified because I had an aggravated crime at the time of my enrollment but I did enjoy the environment of being around those that were enthusiastic about furthering your futures and careers. However came the outcomes of what I felt like were life changing events was I never gave up on myself there was always individuals around me who didn't know the days that were coming to them but were happy to embrace them days I was homeless for a number of years on his journey still I am homeless at the time of writing this letter but I've ventured out to work a variety of general labor jobs I also got my driver's license with a clean record also have a business plan to start a truck driving service for box truck driving while I'm introducing myself as an ordained minister certified and licensed. I know that this may not be the best grammar or written but it came from truth and understanding of life as an African-American male going through the statistics of life. I don't want to become another statistic I want to become more I want to become a pillar of foundation that lives on forever and ever like the pyramids like the Washington memorial like this great United States of America I want to live on I want the education that I've learned through the pass down to the mustard seeds of our social environment I want to sprout up all over the world bringing proper education proper stability proper preparation prevents poor performance and that's what I would love to live my life by and when that life is no more the flame will live on and the eyes and the actions and the words of those that followed in their to allow a man a chance a hand up instead of a handout or a hand side by side.