Argumentative Essay: I Am A Black Woman

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Have you ever experienced something and had the means to justify it? Well I did growing up without a father isn’t easy, But I refuse to become a sastic. In life i have two strikes against me already the fact that I’m black and the other is that I’m a women. I try very hard not to fall into the categories people put me in such as a Single mother,Hustler,Education Less. I'm trying to justify my topic sentence by telling you.I have always been conscious of the skin i'm in(black), where does a 15 year old black girl like me stands in the world,However life has it’s ups and downs there are just more when you’re black. There is an unfortunate belief in the black community where we as a group are unteachable,unruly,and all around killers in order to be great as a race we have to stand together as a whole. …show more content…
As a matter of fact there are about 364,000 more Black men who are married than Black women even though Black women are (51%) of the Black population. While an overwhelming percentage of Black women are married to Black men (94%), about (86%) of Black men are married to Black women.However More than (72%) of children are born out of wedlock while the other (63%) of black children are born without

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