As African Americans we came a long way from abolishing slavery, to gaining our rights as human beings. With the help of some white people like abraham lincoln and many civil rights activist. But even though we received emancipation we still suffer from the color of our skin. A way we can help improve the conditions of our community is by integrating ourselves with the white community and carrying our selves with a professional attitude. We build ourselves on a high pedestal to prove to this society we can contribute to make a great equal world, no matter the race or color of skin.
Our values and manhood have been more appropriately recognized by the men who run the place we live in. They are seeing we will try hard to be friends with other without any problem since we would be judgmental of their color since no one deserves to be discriminated against just because they’re a different shade. The constitution protects everyone's rights including ours. Charles Chesnutt said, “The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees all citizens equal protection under the law, and the Fifteenth Amendment prohibits denying men the right to vote based on their race.” The fourteenth and fifteenth protects everyone especially us.
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But we all start in the bottom even white people. We are in the bottom and try to make are ways up in life and be successful. To move up in life you have to expand your knowledge and how you think. Booker T said it a very good way, “Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the productions of our hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labour and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life.” We need to remember where we came from but not think we can’t be