Flipping The World

Bertrand Perdomo-Ucles is a 3^rd grade elementary teacher, whom I interviewed in his classroom on November 18, 2015. Upon asking him the question, how would you turn the world inside out? His response was… “When I think about reversing all the discriminatory laws out there something has to change. We need to reverse colonialism, discrimination, and the type of security that we have. In order to do that we need to give everything back, from who we took, such as money and natural resources. Now in the 21^st century there are few people in the middle class, to many are in the lower class, and few are in the elite. In which the people who are the elite don’t want other classes to move up with them. That’s why people migrate because they want to find that stability. Within that we have a lot of problems in the world, there is no security for us in the end. In everyday life there is a lot of anxiety and a need to be able to provide and pay the bills. Now in order to change these things, people need to come together and share what problems they have with each other. We need to talk about these issues even though things may get uncomfortable. Things have to be shared in order to get the word across and change how the world works. Broadcasting these issues through TV, through the internet, all over so that people can come together and share what has made them the way they are. They need to fess up to being racist along with other things; they need to sit down at a table with those who aren’t, and they just need to talk. With all the problems out on the table, maybe then a solution can be made.”

The world is changing not for the better but for the worse. Yet it is people like Bertrand that have these little ideas that will help turn the world inside out. It may not be today, or tomorrow, but one day we will see that change!