K-Juan Moses Dalton
Los Angeles, California
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. The bitter roots of my education began on Detroit's East Side and its sweet fruit took me across the nation.
I was 15 when I became tragically aware of the Myths that men, especially black men, at the bottom of the economic ladder would have to use Crime, Sports, or Music to climb up and out of the economic death trap of the American Ghetto
In the modern myth the Hero is the amazingly talented young athlete who goes from high school straight into “The Pros” or the young street entrepreneur who makes the transition from organized crime into a lucrative career in the Music industry.
I realized that just like the mythic tales of the heroic Knight who wins wealth and prestige through the spoils of war, American has developed a new myth for improvised youth through the representation of the Criminal, Athlete and Musician as the Hero in fiction and non-fiction media. I recognized this new myth as the prevailing model of economic mobility for improvised and socially ostracized youth in Detroit.
At 16 I rejected the popular myth and decided that my would be that of an activist who experienced spiritual enlightenment lived a meaningful life and died for benefit of mankind.
By 19 I finished a complete study of the bible.
At 20 I finished the complete works of Dr Martian Luther King.
At 21 Dr King became my Hero, I studied the complete history of the civil rights movement and I began a career as a policy driven social justice activist.
At 22 I began to study classical philosophy starting with the complete works of Plato, then Gottfried Leibniz.
At 23 I was employed by American Systems Publication I was a part of a national camping to recognize banking and monetary system.
At 24 I began traveling around the county promoting a FDR style economic policy reform and a new deal for the 21st century.
At 25 I began to study Kennedy's Space mission the new economy and Mores Law, that year I discovered the work or Ray Kurzweil and adopted a futurist world view.
Since 2013 ,I have been advocating the stem fields in urban environments. Currently I am an America corps Public Allie serving with Brotherhood crusade an organization pioneering in high risk youth development.