| How was it different when you were in school from now? |
That's a good question. There are a lot of differences between school now and when I went to school. But, by the same token, there's a lot of things that haven't changed. Roosevelt High School, for example, while it has changed in size, it's gone from a traditional calendar to a year round calendar, while the make up of the student body has changed quite a bit, it's still the same in that that Rider pride, that school spirit, the fact that Roosevelt High School is like the hub of the community, all that was true then and it's true now. But now, there were gangs when I was here, but now there's more of them. There's more gangs, there's more drug activity, there's more violence in the community than when I was a student. So, while a lot of things have changed, a lot of things still remain the same ... a lot of the good things. |
| If you could change something in your life, would you? |
If I could change something in my life, would I change it? Well, let's see, I'd want to make me rich, if I could change that. No, I'm just kidding and no, I'm not kidding. I mean, I wish I had ... there were a lot of advantages to, interestingly enough, to growing up in this community and I guess when you grow up in a community that's poor, there's a lot of good things in that. You're just poor, that's a bad thing, but the life around that is sometimes, it's a good life, and so I would want to change the socioeconomic status of the community, but not change the people, their values, their culture. I mean, there's a lot of good in that, and I would want to let that remain, but I would want the, as I said, the socioeconomic status to improve, without changing our people. |
