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Danger: Frankie Gonzalez at TEDxYouthBuildCharterSchool

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Through spoken word, Frankie Gonzalez identifies the markers of pain and strictures of guilt placed upon him by a largely unseeing, un-listening society. His piece on life as an urban youth opens with the following lines, the first to fall to the TEDxYouthBuildCharterSchool speaker stage. He laments:

Pain, residing in my (heart)
It made a permanent (mark)
Controlling me...

Francisco Gonzalez, also known as Frankie, describes life before Antelope Valley YouthBuild (AVYB) as broken and directionless. Through this new educational environment, he has felt supported through ongoing troubles -- especially as he experienced a difficult foster home situation. He has since developed a sense of independence and has become a leader for himself and others.

ted.com/tedx/events/11924 | tedxyouthbuildcharterschool.wordpress.com

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