Reflection On Between The World And Me

Between the world and me book is a great book felt with personal experiences and some trials in tribulations for African Americans such as myself had to face growing up in the inter city of Detroit. This book touched on personal issues that I believe every typical poor to middle class Blacks had to experience and was easily affected by these situations. The book between you and me starts off by talking about relationships between violence and being black in America. My personal experience was a little different growing up because my mother sheltered me in the house but, these common and social norms was affected my friends and also me in a way growing up around drug deals, prostitution, and senseless killings. Growing up in a low level community where theirs is not a lot of people to look up to instead the people who are grinding and selling marijuana was our neighborhood hero’s and a lot of kids grew up and wanted to this day be like them. This is not the best way to turn to but who else would you look up to in a city full of vacant houses and high crime rate.
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They are showing a group of people such as Blacks, Muslims, Mexicans and many more a hard time by being racist to them and that is what’s causes a race diversity within the United States. The United States has always been wanting to be better than a lot of other countries. The United States always wanted to look like they had the highest people in power, and the people who was in the highest power to look up to is white people because all of our excessive leaders has died such as Black Panthers, Martin Luther King Jr, and Malcolm X. This lead Blacks to look up to President Obama who they (Donald Trump) has tried to tear him down since he stepped up in office. We have always been the one to turn the left cheek on things and can never get the proper love that we deserve, and also can’t have any leaders to lead without legal action being done to