Hector Gonzalez (Mirek-1st Period)

In the community, not all heroes need super powers to make a difference in someone's life. A hero in the community of the southwest side of Chicago is Hector Gonzales. Hector Gonzales ran for alderman while he was involved with hip/hop and graffiti. He comes from the north side of Chicago in the Uptown neighborhood. His parents migrated to Chicago from Mexico. He went to Roosevelt High School and finished high school while his mom kept getting deported back to Mexico.

Hectors Gonzalez's job was to work with hip hop and politics. Since he said "It's important to have teens and community with politics; it will make [communities] better." Challenges that he had were that  he would get suspended from school for break dancing to hip /hop but he said, "I don't regret break dancing in school and getting suspended". It led him to believe in himself and to help teens now in school. He has been working with hip/hop, teens, and politics because, according to him, it's important to have teens and community work with politics to understand one another.

Hector Gonzalez with a student during the interview.

Mr. Gonzalez values his work and the community because what he does is brings the community together in a better way through hip/hop. He does another thing which can make the community come together like he said, "I just want to change the world. What I'm doing is to help communities and people."

Gonzalez's job is working with hip hop, graffiti, teens, and community politics. In this way he wants to change the world in a different way and bring people from the community together to make a better place for everyone. One good piece of advice Mr. Gonzalez gave to young people was "We have the power to do our decisions, and silence is sometimes good and bad." Mr. Gonzalez also said, "When you know who you are and when you know your parent's stories, this helps you understand where you're going." He lastly added this, "I love hip hop."