Essay On Black Experience

The black experience is one journey that is unique to every single black person that resides on this earth; although, some black’s experience might be similar, not one will ever be the same, so if you don’t mind I would like you take on my trip of what I deem as the back experience. Being black you’re underestimated at birth just based off the color of your skin and you are look at as nothing but a hopeless statistics; however, the power to knock down those statistical barriers you must realize your greatness and no one could of realized it more than Wilma Rudolph who stated “Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” If you look back at every monumental person in black history such as: Martin Luther …show more content…
Due to the lack of black role models in the inner city of Chicago, in which most us came from, the more reason my high school (Urban Prep) ensured we had black male instructors. Our administrator and hierarchy made sure that we saw black excellence in the flesh, because it then goes to show that being black is great thing. Which leads me to say that black excellence is part of the black experience as well, because without positive role black role models in the society who would we look up to. We have to strive to be more than great, not saying we can’t be satisfied with our life at a point in time, but there should never a point in time in which you are preventing yourself from being excellence. Not only did learn about black excellence in the flesh I also learned about through the eyes past black excellence