Expository Essay: Wher Where In The World

If my ancestors were to have written their thoughts on paper as I am doing right now, they would have faced violent legal punishment. Therefore, they screamed silently. Today, some of my brothers and sisters still are forced to silence their screams. From a very young age, it was very much etched into my young mind that if I did not exercise my freedom of speech, I would be a slave to my own mind in a similar manner in which my ancestors were forced to be. Around the age of nine, I realized that even though I was young, I could still have my voice be heard and respected throughout the outlet that my ancestors had feared, writing. I began to write my narratives about how I aspired to be just like my hero Malcolm X when I was ‘bigger’. As I got older, I began to delve into civil rights with more knowledge of the concept, and I had read somewhere that black people did not have a form of mass communication that was one-hundred percent black-owned and operated. When I learned this, I decided that I was going to start my own magazine, and have it completely filled with people of color. …show more content…
I began by writing my expository essays all throughout high school about inequality, the Civil Rights Movement, the ‘#blacklivesmatter’ movement, and the Black Panther party. I vigorously studied the faces of the Harlem Renaissance. In doing this, I discovered that although their screams were silenced, they were still there. They embedded their screams into their words and art, which was the most ingenious ideas that I had stumbled upon up until that moment. I took this new knowledge and decided that’s how I would go about my