Thursday, April 21, 2011

Richard attended President Obama's facebook townhall - April 20 @ 1:45pm PDT




Today 4:30pm at
facebook HQ & www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse or...
WHAT'S HAPPENING President Barack Obama will hold a special "Facebook Live" townhall to connect with Americans across the country. WHERE & WHEN IT'S HAPPENING Where? Well, everywhere! The event at Facebook's headquarters, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg & COO Sheryl Sandberg, will be live streamed for anyone to watch. Just come back here at the right time: Wednesday, April 20 @ 1:45pm PDT / 4:45pm EDT. Unless invited to attend in person, please do not show up at Facebook HQ. You can watch and participate via the event's live stream. WHAT IT'S ABOUT President Obama will connect with Americans across the country to discuss the tough choices we must all make in order to put our economy on a more responsible fiscal path, while still investing in areas like innovation that will help our economy grow and make America more competitive. HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE Facebook will be selecting questions for President Obama to answer during the event. Submit questions now by posting them right here, on this event's wall. As an alternative, you may submit a question via WhiteHouse.gov/facebooktownhall. STILL READING? Then you definitely need to make sure you're a fan of the White House on Facebook! Facebook.com/WhiteHouse


Richard Gibson wrote on President Obama's facebook townhall - April 20 @ 1:45pm PDT 


  • Instead of having high growth-industries in the urban community, other (less than desirable) industries have filled in that gap (including the drug and sex industries). For many urban youth, Sports and Rap music became the only visible alternative form of urban upward mobility. Some have argued that the Rap music industry addresses the industrial void we have in our urban communities and has provided jobs and the opportunity for solo professionals to create wealth. But what makes rap music problematic is that it is not just an industry that creates opportunity; it’s also attached to the stigma of the “underground" economy, which “gangster” rap has been defined by. Youth are constantly bombarded with glorified images of pimps, prostitutes, gangsters, drug dealers and career criminals.


  • I have taken an honest look at the lack of high profile positive urban role models, explored the existing joblessness, the high crime-rate, the appalling educational system, lack of parenting, substance abuse, hunger and poverty which are the ingredients that lead to crime, drug dealing, violence, death and costly prison terms. All of which take time, talent and money away from real proactive solutions.


  • I am Richard Gibson the architect behind Urban Success (US) Collaborative. The US Collab is designed to significantly broaden the involvement of major corporations, foundations, interns and volunteers. The result will be social marketing campaigns and social benefit enterprises that are in support of education, career awareness, career training and employment opportunities.

    US collab and 21st FLEET Interns, will serve as a SELF-Advocacy initiative to enhance teaching and learning through the purposeful use of new social network services, multimedia and technology. The US collaborative will provide the necessary resources for a range of efforts for building digital and physical media content, from building basic websites to developing advanced projects that utilize the power of multimedia in the context of carefully designed teaching and learning modalities


  • The Urban Success (US) Initiative will use Edutainment to effectively impact lasting educational reform, while establishing more creative and positive messages in the various genres of music by which teens are influenced. Our vision is to transform their perspectives about themselves, education, their community and their roles in society through technology. We are making education cool and engaging!
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