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Nic stopped hanging around his old friends that smoked and drank. He started to become sober and started hanging out with surfers. He finished 8th grade and is now in high school. Now that it's summertime Nic is staying with Viki his biological mom. Their new baby Daisy is born through a c section.

When Nic was younger he was in musicals and plays the guitar. there were more people committing suicide and being abducted and David and Karen started looking after Nic more. Their new baby Jasper was born. When Nic was in 7th he started smoking his dad caught him with a bag of marijuana.

Nic was born in July 1982, his family and teachers describe him as fun, bright, and a leader. Early in Nics life, David and Viki (his parents) got a divorce, and living miles between houses was hard on him. At Nics school David met Karen and they got married. When Nic became a preteen his attitude, style and friends started changing. David and Nic still had their special relationship but something was wrong with Nic.

Nic came back from college he did one year and left. His dad was convinced he was 150 days clean from methamphetamine but one night he left and confessed he had been using it for an entire semester. his dad is feeling so paranoid, worried, and guilty anytime he goes missing his dad automatically thinks he died. David explains meth statics and how Nic almost OD and died. he turned their story to the new york times

Obama started rising to fame after calling out Bill Cosby. He eventually ran for president and won. So many people tried to tear him and his whole family down by coming after their marriage, speeches, and their bodies. But more police brutally started happening and 3 ladies founded the #BLM movement as a response and since it was women it started #SHN and #MeToo. The rest is acknowledgment.

Murry and Herrnstein banned together groups of republicans to start an anti-welfare bill. It started republicans and democrats getting tougher and stuff and a group got Angela Davis fired again. In 1995 the million man march happened to defend a falsely accused inmate on death row.

Anglea Davis took a teaching job at UCLA and many times Ronald Regan wanted her fired. She spoke out for three black iminates. Later on, one of those inmates was holding people hostages with guns and there was a shoot out. Anglea was charged with murder for owning one of the guns and she ran but later was caught. Years later she was freed & 23 years later she left the activist group.

There was a bombing of a church that killed four girls in 1963. Anglea Davis lived in Alabama and her mother was Carole's teacher in the first grade. JFK started working on a bill for black rights but since he was killed Lyndon Johnson passed it. In the north, they were dealing with police brutality and riots and the south was surviving the KKK. Malcolm X started speaking out and was killed on February 21.

Jack Johnson was a famous boxer and had lots of influence on colored people throughout America like if he wore a red suit lots of people would because he was a cocky, rebellious influencer colored people started acting like that and it made white people nervous so they had Jack Johnson arrested.

Garrison retired because slavery was abolished. Andrew Johnson came into office and reversed everything Lincoln did for black people in the office. Then the Jim Crow laws started. Later on, William Edward went to an all-white college (Harvard) and graduated. But he was the type of guy that found justification for the segregation of colored people.

Fredrick Douglas published his story and it inspired more people to write books. Harriet Stowe's story blew up and attracted abolishist and empowerment. Lincoln was elected president and started more and more black people to be free. The south threatened to leave but ended up staying. More and more bills about blacks being free were passed. Soon enough slavery was abolished. Later on, Lincoln was killed.

Two slaves Gaberial and Nancy were planning on leading a rebellion with hundreds of laves to run away to Virginia but it ended failing. There was a society started by a Virginia delegate and an antiracist. They wanted African Americans to train themselves to learn how to take care of their motherland when sent back to Africa. Later on, Missouri became a slave state so Maine could be free.

Thomas Jefferson was sort of playing both sides with slavery. He wanted slavery to be abolished but still owned 200 slaves. There was a revolt in Hati and the African Americans won and this made the American slave owners nervous. Soon after American slaves started to become runaways and abolitionist wanted black people to learn to be proper but their idea was kinda racist.

In the few pages, I read Cotton Mantter died and his ideas still spread and laws towards colored got worse. There were no interracial couples, tax imported captives, blacks can't hold office. Those were the main laws but there were a few more.

In the book, so far they have been focused on "popular" racists but there's a group of people that are German and Dutch and rose up and killed known racists. They started an anti-slavery petition in 1688 and that was the first written antiracist thing that went around the European colonies.

there's a new member of their band Ollie. Originally Ollie was helping Troy learned the drums. Curt is trying to test Troy's skills by coming up with random and hard to keep up with guitar solos. They're trying to come up with their own original songs but Curt is dealing with personal problems. Any time Troy cant keep up he gets insecure and starts thinking everyone hates him and threatens to quit the band.

Curts stepdad threatened to kill Curt and Troy if they kept stealing from him. Behind Troy's back Curt planned a gig and drummer lessons, Troy got embarrassed and told his father he was quitting the band but his dad is encouraging him to go. Troy has been letting his insecurities get in the way of playing but he's going to try and play his first show.

A piece I read about today was how slavery slowly evolved into America. There were two Puritan men who came and spread their ideas and theories they learned from Europe and over there they are big on having a theory on why people are black and are very racist. It was crazy that a guy worked with Aerostotle and influenced him to be racist and that rubbed off on the two men that came to the colonies and racism spread

What I read today just sort of shocked me and it's crazy how far back racism started in other countries then slavery and racism reached America. I read about how Europeans had different conspiracies on why African American people were black.

Curt and Troy have been getting super close and they are starting to make music but Curt doesn't actually know how to play the drums but he's always admired Curt for being a genius guitar player. Troy is trying to battle his insecurities but feels like he can be himself with curt because at school he gets made fun of for being overweight.

So far this book has been great and it truly makes you think about the dangers of hanging around the wrong people, drugs, and alcohol. I don't think that Johns's mom handled him well because she just sent him off and didn't ask how he was feeling. I think later on John going to act out and run away because he's making friends with another rebel Maria. Plus I love how it includes older music.

Today I finished my book.

Right now the story is focusing on Simon and Bit. This is one of my favorites because there completely opposite like Simons a big kid he's popular and Bit is quiet, scrawny. I like how it's not a basic teenage book where people from different cliques can't be friends because I feel like at our school it's that way. But in their story, it just talks about all their silly adventures in and out of school.

This is a new book I started it is pretty good so far. I really enjoy books that are told from multiple perspectives because it puts you in the realistic mindset that everyone around you is going through something and a simple act of kindness could change everything. I know thatd said a lot but when you read about or see it on tv its easier to take that action because you get to see the person's reaction mentally.

What's happening right now is just a huge eye-opener and really leaves an impact on you. It feels really good to know that things have changed drastically but there's definitely more we need to do as a society.

A civil rights worker is meeting with a family in his office because Obama just got elected. He was teaching the younger kids in the family about his past and how segregation was a big issue when he was young and in grade school. He was also talking about other black stories like Emmit Till and Rosa Parks. Sometimes its really diffuclt to follow becuase it like jumps past to present a lot.