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A year ago, a video spread, showing a young boy about ten or 11 years old wearing a police uniform. His neighbors are bullying him. Some even shook their bodies at him in a degraded way. How could he, a black boy, be so stupid to support their public enemy police? In all this, the boy stood there with a stoic face, keeping his composure.
When I saw the video, I was shocked by this bad faith. Are we so tired of being a society that we laugh at a child’s dream of becoming a policeman and serving the people? Will he be ridiculed if he declared his ambition to be a rapper?
People in communities like this tell us that the police department needs more people who look like them. However, when one of their own dared to dream of this dream, they twisted him in front of him.
This video angered me and I showed it around the community. I said we have to be better than that. We must encourage young dreamers like this young man.
A few weeks ago, I watched President Donald Trump honor a 13-year-old boy, Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel, during a joint speech to Congress. “[DJ] “I’ve always dreamed of becoming a policeman. But in 2018, DJ was diagnosed with brain cancer.”
“The doctor gave him up to five months of life,” Trump added. “That was six years ago. Since then, DJ and his father have been seeking to realize their dreams.”
DJ has received badges of honor from 908 police agencies across the country. He exceeded his initial goal of 100 badges.
Trump chanted, “I ask our new Secret Service Director Sean Curran to officially make you an agent for the U.S. Secret Service.” It was a touching, sincere moment.
After that, I watched a new video of DJ, who was full of soul maturity after his years. He talked about his cancer lifestyle: “I’m going to keep going until my gas tank runs out.
That’s it. It’s right there. That’s your life. I’ve shared this video extensively.
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To my surprise, my friend sent me a viral video from a year ago showing the little boy wearing a police uniform and telling me he was a DJ. I looked closer, it was him. I can’t believe him. I felt the emotions mixed.
On the one hand, I am proud of him sticking to his dream, a path that takes him from the ugly incident to a room in our nation’s Capitol, the most powerful man and woman on the land. This is why you believe in yourself and your dreams.
On the other hand, I was full of disgust. In that viral video, his own neighbors are laughing at him and bullying him. What do you say to his own people? Is there anything more shameful than wasting the dreams of young Americans?
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DJ found no support on those mean streets, but he found it in the Capitol of the United States.
In many ways, I think these two videos from DJ clearly illustrate the battle facing Americans. “Malicious Video” laughs at his American dream, and the sincere video shows a young man facing an extremely unfair judgment. Maliciousness makes us everywhere, and sincerity is infinite, without limiting power. I saw a man in DJ, a sincere man, may God bless him never surrender.
