now I’m standing here on stage today
with a paint bucket next to me is
holding a stuffed penguin now you might
be wondering what is she doing it’s kind
of random right well no I’m not here to
talk about the projectiles of throwing
stuffed animals into paint buckets as
interesting as that sound I’m here to
talk about a societal issue that I
believe is pertinent for us as a
community to recognize so I’m asking
everyone here to do me a favor
think about one role that you’d like to
achieve within the next five years is it
getting at your dream college or is it
finally starting that business that I’ve
dreamt about her ears now I want you to
imagine that achieving that goal is as
easy as throwing this something went
into the bucket now for most of you it
seems pretty easy right
I mean if everyone in this room if each
and everyone stood where I’m standing
right now we could say that everyone
would probably make a shot and achieve
their goal but what if all of the
students in the room had to stand 15
feet farther because of their age and
what if all the girls has achieved a
shot standing backwards because of their
gender or what if every single person in
this room that was not born in the
audience
was not hot to take a shot at all it
seems unfair right unfortunately this is
the harsh reality of the relationship
between the opportunity and achievement
so everyone goes through unique
struggles and difficulties and it can be
anything a multitude of factors
including your gender your race your
socioeconomic status as well as your age
your appearance your sexual orientation
now there are so many factors that can
affect how you achieve success anyone in
this room could be a victim of limited
opportunity regardless of your race
religion your gender or your age so
basically to sum this up an example I
would say is in a book published by
Harvard political scientist Robert
Putnam in this book one example that
really stood out was an illustration of
jalisco
how these socio-economic status can
affect people’s opportunity for example
if we took two children one that was
born in a wealthy family with educated
parents and then another craft and
another child that was born in a family
with lower socioeconomic status almost
every study shows that this that the
child born in the WellCare family is
more likely to succeed so why is this
now the main reason is opportunity it’s
for example he wealth your child has
better access to formal education and
they also have better family connections
among other factors so I’m not here to
say that people with limited opportunity
aren’t able to achieve in fact let’s
take a look at this company recognizes
well penny for was just a poor farmer a
pork pie farm boy that grew up with
limited education however he recognized
and overcame the opportunity gap gap
through educating himself at which led
him to become one of the greatest
innovators at this time or had you ever
heard of radium and polonium well this
was discovered by Marie Marie Curie in
growth during a time with women in
science was not recognized however she
overcame this opportunity gap and became
one of the greatest chemists of her time
Clark
how about our own senator J toggery who
is the first Indian American to be voted
on to the north
a legislature or bruised Bader Ginsberg
he’s first the second woman to be
appointed to me US Supreme Court and of
course Barack Obama the first African
American president to serve our nation
so what don’t mean look to all these
individuals have in common well all
these individuals were able to recognize
the overcome the opportunity gap that
they could achieve much more the people
that taught and grew up with more
privilege and opportunity so I believe
it is important for us to recognize the
disparities that exist within our
community and there’s a lot that we can
do today I encourage everyone to think
about to be more conscientious of the
thoughts and judgments that can make
about other people and if you recognize
opportunity disparities within our
community there are multitude of things
that you can do for example you can
volunteer their children that have
committed opportunity or donate to the
food bank or even call the local
politicians office to talk about the
situation right now us have students we
wield a lot more power than we think and
if there’s one opportunity that we
should seize right now it’s education I
think that change starts small through
our thoughts and actions but together we
can make a positive and why
spread change in our community and
rubber everyone’s situation is more than what moves the I thank
with a paint bucket next to me is
holding a stuffed penguin now you might
be wondering what is she doing it’s kind
of random right well no I’m not here to
talk about the projectiles of throwing
stuffed animals into paint buckets as
interesting as that sound I’m here to
talk about a societal issue that I
believe is pertinent for us as a
community to recognize so I’m asking
everyone here to do me a favor
think about one role that you’d like to
achieve within the next five years is it
getting at your dream college or is it
finally starting that business that I’ve
dreamt about her ears now I want you to
imagine that achieving that goal is as
easy as throwing this something went
into the bucket now for most of you it
seems pretty easy right
I mean if everyone in this room if each
and everyone stood where I’m standing
right now we could say that everyone
would probably make a shot and achieve
their goal but what if all of the
students in the room had to stand 15
feet farther because of their age and
what if all the girls has achieved a
shot standing backwards because of their
gender or what if every single person in
this room that was not born in the
audience
was not hot to take a shot at all it
seems unfair right unfortunately this is
the harsh reality of the relationship
between the opportunity and achievement
so everyone goes through unique
struggles and difficulties and it can be
anything a multitude of factors
including your gender your race your
socioeconomic status as well as your age
your appearance your sexual orientation
now there are so many factors that can
affect how you achieve success anyone in
this room could be a victim of limited
opportunity regardless of your race
religion your gender or your age so
basically to sum this up an example I
would say is in a book published by
Harvard political scientist Robert
Putnam in this book one example that
really stood out was an illustration of
jalisco
how these socio-economic status can
affect people’s opportunity for example
if we took two children one that was
born in a wealthy family with educated
parents and then another craft and
another child that was born in a family
with lower socioeconomic status almost
every study shows that this that the
child born in the WellCare family is
more likely to succeed so why is this
now the main reason is opportunity it’s
for example he wealth your child has
better access to formal education and
they also have better family connections
among other factors so I’m not here to
say that people with limited opportunity
aren’t able to achieve in fact let’s
take a look at this company recognizes
well penny for was just a poor farmer a
pork pie farm boy that grew up with
limited education however he recognized
and overcame the opportunity gap gap
through educating himself at which led
him to become one of the greatest
innovators at this time or had you ever
heard of radium and polonium well this
was discovered by Marie Marie Curie in
growth during a time with women in
science was not recognized however she
overcame this opportunity gap and became
one of the greatest chemists of her time
Clark
how about our own senator J toggery who
is the first Indian American to be voted
on to the north
a legislature or bruised Bader Ginsberg
he’s first the second woman to be
appointed to me US Supreme Court and of
course Barack Obama the first African
American president to serve our nation
so what don’t mean look to all these
individuals have in common well all
these individuals were able to recognize
the overcome the opportunity gap that
they could achieve much more the people
that taught and grew up with more
privilege and opportunity so I believe
it is important for us to recognize the
disparities that exist within our
community and there’s a lot that we can
do today I encourage everyone to think
about to be more conscientious of the
thoughts and judgments that can make
about other people and if you recognize
opportunity disparities within our
community there are multitude of things
that you can do for example you can
volunteer their children that have
committed opportunity or donate to the
food bank or even call the local
politicians office to talk about the
situation right now us have students we
wield a lot more power than we think and
if there’s one opportunity that we
should seize right now it’s education I
think that change starts small through
our thoughts and actions but together we
can make a positive and why
spread change in our community and
rubber everyone’s situation is more than what moves the I thank
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