Hunter+G’s+Final+AmEx+2013+Speech

=Title of Speech= F**K you I wont do what you tell me

=Text of Speech= I have spent days writing out my speech. Whether it is in my head or on the computer I have slaved over a topic to which I can feel passionate about but at the same time make me stand out. I have seen the trends of subjects that most commonly came up and I wanted to break out of this. I wanted to be unique. I wrote about the fun in the world being sucked away by the social norm and how it could be reversed. I wrote about the bitching and moaning I hear of our generation and how our human race has lost its resiliency and has failed to completely deal with its problems by itself. I even wrote about the censorship our country is under and the pressure to be as clean as possible… but, when I looked over these ideas they all ended the same. They were all written in order to grab your attention; in order to be standoffish enough in a way to make you listen by sheer interest and not just because you have to be here. I guess you can say I wanted to write that one speech that Gieb would show to next year’s students and maybe even my brother when he takes AMEX. I guess you can say… I wanted to matter. There is a band called rage against the machine. They are by far the most politically active, or better yet, foul mouthed rock band I listen to. They sing of just about every subject I’ve heard people speak about. Conformity, environmental disregard, Ignorance to surroundings, even governmental brainwashing by use of television… Mr. Gieb… but the way they do it is what amazes me. They do not censor themselves and will never be censored. On the morning of December 17, Rage against the Machine played a censored version of "Killing in the Name" on [|Radio 5 Live], but four repeats of 'Fuck you I won't do what you tell me' were aired before the song was pulled. A similar instance happened in 93 when the parental advisory sticker was adopted by the government and made mandatory on explicit records. Rage decided during their Lollapalooza tour to go on stage naked with black tape over their mouths with the organizations acronym, PMRC, written on all of the band member’s chests. This is also the same band that reunited for a charity tour to support the homeless of LA. This band did what they wanted to do, and were recognized for it. They made a difference in this world. They mattered. I have mostly been quiet all my life before high school. I have always been very reserved, careful to censor what I said. I saw a speech tutor when I was little, not because I couldn’t pronounce correctly, but because I wouldn’t speak often enough for me to learn in school efficiently. In middle school, I sat with people at lunch that heard me speak once a week if they were lucky. I was in the background, a shadow. High school changed me, but only slightly. I spoke more but only with people I felt comfortable with. I was even told I was a great “back-up friend”. I wasn’t hurt by this, nor was I thankful for it. I was simply moved by it. It made me not want to be one of the social norms; it made me want to do stuff that would be remembered, not forgotten. This only occurred to me about a year ago. After a while I started to do what I thought would be fun and crazy, simply what I wanted to do. Countless times I will go with my next door neighbor and my brother to the store and buy a giant tub of ice cream along with a 2 liter bottle of soda, usually Dr Pepper, and blend the two together to make what we call “fat shakes.” I encourage everyone to try it sometime, at least once. This hasn’t been my only attempt at trying to break my normal boundaries. You see these aviators? They appealed to me and I noticed that they are not the normal fashion. So I started wearing them, a lot. Rest assure, there were countless Top Gun jokes that came along with these. Regardless, I didn’t care, I liked them and I saw it was an option to stand out. There was other ways I started to break out of my shell like sword fighting and playing dungeons and dragons, but that’s a whole different speech altogether. What this all boils down to is individualism and how we express it. When I look back on it, I was always acting how I wanted to, and it has mattered. I wanted to be reserved when I was little so I was, I may have learned more that way. I want to be less censored now, and so I am, I may be giving more this way. So, in the America I want grow up in, I want people to just do what they want, live how I have lived and not worry if they are living correctly. Anyone who does what they hate will not get far. Only those who do what they love will make enough change to matter in this world. No one can tell you what you want to do with your life. So I leave you with my favorite line from “killing in the name”, fuck you I won’t do what you tell me.

=Cite Your Sources= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pbq9j#p005n8wp http://www.billboard.com/articles/list/513471/top-5-lollapalooza-wtf-moments