10 THINGS I CAN NOT DO AS A FELON

What's up, guys? Welcome to today's video, as you can tell from the title, this is going to be my list of the top 10

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I can't do as a criminal 10 years later, 10 years later, so for those on my channel, I'm a recovering addict who i served time in prison and saint for more videos about my journey in the description box below we also have a second channel called just kenri show and we have a podcast and it's on all these little doobly-doo here so you can follow us on all these

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and my Instagram account is this so those are all the places you can find me yelling about I don't know I'm in a weird mood today okay without further ado let's go ahead and start now.

They are not in any particular order, but the first thing that comes to mind is everything I can't do, what I want most is to be an adoptive mother. There is a huge need for good adoptive parents in this country right now and if that is something you want to do, do your research, there are so many different options. I want to be a foster parent so badly, but I can't and you can't, you can't put the kids in a home with me and people who have been convicted of

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ies. I have multiple

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ies on my record, yes it was never for hurting a child or abusing a child which I would never do, it was for drugs, but you still don't want to put a child in a home where potentially something could go wrong. wrong or a child could be at risk and although I understand that it breaks my heart to not be able to be a foster parent and it breaks my heart for my children because I feel that we will be a very good foster family and I believe that my children would make very good siblings fosters and I think it would be very special for our family and I think we would be.

I think if it could happen to us, we would be very lucky to be able to bring a child into this home. That needed us at that time, you know, and that's something I can't do and that's something that really bothers me. I have amazing adoptive families in my life, my friend Katie is an adoptive mother and we actually filmed a video. Leave it on the card up here, she is absolutely amazing, she had a little one at the time, now she has two little ones and she is an amazing foster mom and I am so proud of her.

Mika's old adoptive family, they are also in her lives and they. We are also amazing people and you know why I love being able to see her journey. I just wish we had a host trip too, but that's not a reality for us, we just can't do it, so I have to do it. come to terms with that and I have to accept it and I have to be okay with it now. The second thing I can't do is I can't be a respite caregiver. What the hell is that? In foster care there is something called respite care.

She is essentially the host family's babysitter, so if you and your host mom need to go away for a weekend or if you have a trip that the host child can't take or you just need a break, as all parents need breaks, we're not machines, so The baby would go to a foster home, so I would essentially be a babysitter for foster kids, which, oh my god, how fun does that sound. If you didn't know, you can be a full-time foster parent or you can be a respite caregiver or nanny for a weekend or a week or whatever or a day here a day there, so yeah, foster care. relay is a completely different thing and I don't think it's talked about enough, but I would love to do it, but unfortunately I can't because I'm a convicted felon number three right now, when I'm filming this video in June 2020.

I can't vote now. . I previously lived in Arkansas, we moved to Chicago. Arkansas denied me and I couldn't vote under Arkansas state law, in fact they laughed. For me, that was a good day. I have not applied to vote in the state of Illinois and that is because I am lazy and have not done so yet, but I will try to see if I can vote in the state of Illinois and I will keep you informed. Maybe I can vote, it's just not something I've done yet. I've been talking about it for a whole year. I swear I will.

I swear, well, number four. I can't have a gun now why do I need a gun now? I don't need a firearm. Technically I don't need it, but in the United States, according to the Constitution, I should be able to own a firearm and protect myself. I have the right to bear arms well when You are a criminal, that right has been taken away from you, you no longer have the right to bear arms and that sucks because you know that's how it is. I feel like I don't need any more explanations. I feel like I don't need to explain that. more, but these are things I can't do forever.

I can't clear my record because it's serious. I can ask for my rights to be restored, but due to the number of felonies I have, I don't know if they would do it honestly, but I can't file a motion to have my rights restored. I just haven't because I understand that I am a drug dealer and a violent criminal. I have aggression. I have weapons charges. I feel like they are not going to restore my rights. be the judge I don't know, so number five, I can't visit my friends in prison right now, this is something that really irritates me, it's not a big inconvenience for me, but it is something that makes me sad, I can't. go visit my friends in prison.

Maybe I can visit a county jail here and there, but I can't go to prison. I think it's a federal prison. I can't go to state prison and that's because I'm not the family. member of a person who is in prison and the prison has pretty ridiculous rules and criminals can't go back to that prison and visit them unless you know it's a family member and they check to see if you're a family member or not. I even had my good friend. not being able to write letters to me or receive letters from me because he had been in a prison in Arkansas like Arkansas was crazy, it's like a whole different world, I'm telling you, so my friend was serving time in what wasn't really a prison. call it prison but it was our PF it's prison but it's like rehab it's like a prison rehab program um so I don't really call that prison I don't know I'm rambling but I couldn't write to him and my letters were sent I'm back because I'm a criminal and that It sucks because I always want to write and support people who violate parole or who are my friends or whatever and I'm a big fan of writing and supporting people you meet in prison just with letters so they feel less alone, so yeah, it sucks, I can't pee.

I can't physically visit my friends in prison. Number something I realize. There are so many jobs I can't have because I'm a criminal now like I can't work in a bank because I'm a criminal so obviously I'm going to rob a bank just kidding. I can't work in many offices. You would be surprised to know how many jobs I have been rejected for, like JB Hunt bnsf trans place. These are jobs and transportation that I wanted in the past and since no one wanted to hire me, I decided to get my bachelor's degree and eventually started on YouTube, so I went my own way because I was excluded from many. different things so it's absolutely ridiculous to me that I can't work in an office bro what could go wrong if I work in an office if it doesn't work out?

Fire me, but give me a chance, you know, I wanted a sale. position in these companies and I am good at it. I'm good at sales. He would have been good for that job and would have arrived before everyone. I would have stayed later than everyone. I would have worked 10 times harder because I would have been very grateful for the opportunity, so if you are not hiring criminals with drug crimes because you are stereotyping against them, please understand that you and your company may suffer and you may have missed out on an incredible opportunity to hire someone who has worked ten times harder than anyone else.

You have someone there who has incredible street smarts that is so undervalued in our society. Someone who would have been your best salesperson. You may have missed that person, as many of you know. Can't. I rent in many areas, I can't rent an apartment and that sucks. I built our credit and saved money and you know, Reese got a better job and one promotion after another and he's done very, very well for the last six. years, seven years, no matter how long we had been together before, it was very difficult to find a place that would rent to us if my name was on the lease.

Now Reese, my boyfriend, went to drug court and completed drug treatment and he is not a felon. but my name could never be on anything, so it sucks, but it's very strange. I can't rent in that many places and they will turn you away, but I can have my name on my need. If we buy a house. I'm in the writing because it's cool, so if I have enough money to buy a house I can be in the writing, but if I'm struggling and not on my fucking ass, I can't rent a shitty apartment somewhere like explain that to you.

Yo, everyone wants to see a comeback story, but no one wants to help the process. Everyone wants to see you successful after prison, but no one wants to give you a job or rent you an apartment. Help me understand how you see me. very very good now and my personal success cannot be attributed to any corporation somewhere, it can be attributed to you, you believed in me, you subscribed to my channel and watched my videos, you helped me get to where I am today , ok, number like 8. or 9 I don't know, I lost count, I can't have a liquor license, I can't own a bar, can't it be a small liquor store?

I mean, I can own the property I guess, but I can't have the license to sell the liquor that would have to be in someone else's name, so why the number maybe 10? Don't know. I feel like this is the last one. I can't have a car dealer's license and I know someone who has been through that and they were actually able to get it in California, but just like the rest of the country, I can't buy or sell used cars. I can't have a car dealer's license, so strangely enough, a lot of this stuff just doesn't work. makes sense, like why can't I vote, what's the reasoning behind that, please enlighten me, other things I can understand, like foster care, I can understand because you don't want to harm a child or risk putting them in harm's way. a bad home, so I understand the gun I can understand it, but I can't understand it, don't hire me, write to me, don't let me vote, I can't understand these things, oh, here's another one. a big, big, big, trip I can't travel outside of this country to places that expect you to present these, so I think I can go to Mexico.

I wonder if they would let me go back. Do I join you with the passport to go to Mexico? I like it, although right now I'm understanding. I think I can go to Mexico. I know I can't go to Canada. Canada doesn't like family and all of you. I have a lot of people from Canada who watch my videos and I would love that. to come see them but their country doesn't like me so it's not me specifically but I got in so I can't go to their country so yeah I can't travel internationally to certain places until they approve a passport for me, now yes.

I know of certain criminals who have been approved for mission trips and things like that, so maybe I could, but I understand I can't, so I'll keep you posted on all that. I'm going to try to get a passport and try to vote in the state of Illinois and I'll let you know if I can do those things to all of you that are felons, you're going to hear a lot when you get out of prison for the first time, you're going to hear a lot It's possible That in many places they want to hire you, in many places they will not want to rent you.

My personal advice is to be honest in interviews and tell them: look, I'm a criminal, but I will work harder than anyone else. here and just give me a chance if it doesn't work out fire me be upfront and honest about how important that job is to you and how much it means to you I found that when I started not only did I wait for that to show up on my background check but when I went honest, people gave me a fair chance, not the biggest corporations, but it started, you have to start somewhere. I was working at Landstar, my boss at Landstar gave me the opportunity because I was like a professional.

I'm going to outsell everyone here, just please hire me and he did, don't give up, you're going to hear no, you have to get over those moments when people doubt you and tell you no, don't give up because someone doesn't. I don't see your value right away, it sucks, criminals have to chase success like our lives depend on it because in reality it is like that a lot of times the phones give up and they are so beaten up by the system that they relapse and I think that The People don't understand why someone goes back to prison, but it's because this country doesn't give us the chance to fight, so let's get over those moments and fight for it.

It's worth it, no matter how difficult it was for me to get out of prison. do it the right way I'm so grateful for that moment I'm grateful for that struggle it's because of that struggle that I'm so grateful for every single thing I have today, whether it's a bottle of water or a rib tomahawk your girl is grateful. I'm grateful for everything in my life, everything I want to say, just waterclean, just a good shower, you have no idea how many things that so many people take for granted that I am so eternally grateful for, always grateful for every day. clean water and access to whatever book I want to read and the shower and the refrigerator and being able to control the temperature in my house and turn on a light switch a lot of these things can be easily overlooked, but for me personally I'm grateful for every single thing, every thing a light switch okay guys I really hope you enjoyed this video I hope it was informative.

I hope you learned a little more about what criminals can and cannot do. I hope we change our policy and I hope we start treating criminals better. If you want recidivism to decrease, we must do it. Start treating people better. I love you guys, stay safe, stay sober, don't break the law and I'll see you in the next one.