Throughout modern history, we are filled with lies, truths, and assumptions about history. Many historians have made strong attempts to find the history of the United States and to discover how we have progressed over time. History is very accurate with many individuals living through important times in our history but nothing is compared and as relevant as modern day history. We are living in and through history and it is something that we fail to recognize. The United States has one of the deepest and well-thought histories has led us to have very accurate assumptions and facts about how we have progressed as humans. All the terrible and outstanding events that have happened have led us to where we are today. The time period that we are living in as of now is filled with great events that have positively affected our daily lives; many events also has led us to negatively affect our lives also. The most relevant and accurate understanding of our lives is right now, many of us tend to try and rewrite history but it is something that we fail to accurately depict. Modern day history has changed into many conflicting topics and ideas, I will try to accurately depict modern day times.
Conflicting topics have lived with all United States individuals throughout all of the time. How individuals identify has certainly been one of the most conflicting and widespread topics of our time. In the early 1900s identifying by anything other than male and female was hated on. In fact, you weren’t allowed to identify by anything other than male and female without receiving immense backlash. In that time period though, the United States had many more widespread problems besides gender identification. Slavery and race identification was by far the most conflicting topic. Even now, colored individuals seem to have daily life problems with their race. Our modern-day events have seemed to accurately tell us that we still have racial problems and they seem to not go away. All over the news almost every day we see black men getting shot by our law enforcement and it is something that is not going away.
In September 2015 I am an African American man, who lives in New York. I currently work at Mcdonalds’ and recently graduated high school. I am the first in my family to graduate high school and am planning on going to community college. My family and I live in a low-income neighborhood and have trouble paying the bills. I have a wealthy grandfather that lives in new york and he is paying for my community college tuition because he is extremely proud of me. My neighborhood is filled with drug and alcohol abuse and I have tried everything to keep myself away from it. Everyone in my family does not support me going to college and wants me to join their drug group because they don’t believe I can make it that far. I always say that I plan to become a business owner and have high aspirations with my life.
Every day I face extreme hardships; driving to college is by far my scariest moment. At 6:30 in the morning I have to drive down streets and down alleyways just so I can make it to the place where I can be most successful. Success is not given in modern society, I have everyone on my butt about joining gangs and organized drug groups and I have to always find an excuse. “My mom is expecting me home for dinner now”, or “I’ll think about it and get back to you.” I live my life scared yet excited to move out of this terrible place. The cops see me as a good kid but I constantly see them roaming up and down our roads trying to catch people. My current life right now is not abrupt, I have a goal and I will achieve this goal.
This piece does not particularly settle well with me. My writing and grammar may have been fine but accurately describing the role of a young African American man is something that I can not accurately depict. The way I portrayed him could have gone in many different ways and I chose this path due to the positive outcome.