Personal Narrative: My Life As A Young Black Man

I have felt many pressures, race is such a big problem among black people but as community can get over the hump of being pressured into a few stereotypes. From my own personal experience being a young black man growing up in many places of black being the majority such as Detroit, Chicago, New York I felt an amazing amount of comfort around these areas. Once I move down to La Vernia Texas, being enrolled into an all white school with a lot of Mexicans and the only black people could only fit on a bench in a hallway that we called “The Black Bench” in high school, I attended La Vernia school district for 7 years from 4th grade all the way to 10th grade in high school. My first encounter with this whole move, and experience this new …show more content…
So I showed it off at my school talent show and blew everyone away and I was now known as the “Dancer” and I kept a good circle of friends and as time went on, and I felt even more into the school because I was a talented dancer. That was just a moment in my life were i felt the pressure of my race being a problem because I had to prove myself to be worthy or useful, to my community that I was minority in the school, but once the years added up people starting to respect me not just for my talent but my personality. That's why I feel the black community can come from all this police brutality and stand as one and not feel pressured into judgmental situations, because I how stereotype stopped friendships with me and relationships but it help me be stronger because it helped me deal with all type of diversity of all races and how many different culture change being pressured, might be the best thing that happened to you sometimes because its a serious judgement that you think of right on the spot and it made me stronger person to deal with all types of pressure and to over come anything including