Synthesis Essay: The Issue Of Racial Autonomy

Once, I heard my mom on the phone with my Grammy. I heard my mom tell my Grammy that she should not come over to our house in the snow because she could not afford “even a fender bender.” She explained to my Grammy that the trip just was not worth it. I remember spending the rest of the evening worried about how I would help my Grammy pay for a new fender bender since she could not afford one. As a child and now teenager, it is easy for me to misunderstand phrases and figures of speech that I just do not have the experience in life to fully understand. I tend to take things more literally than a figure of speech should be taken. There is one figure of speech I am glad I took more literally than it was intended. I heard my mom interviewing a family for her preschool awhile ago and I heard her use the phrase, “what I bring to the table.” I remember wondering where this table was where my mom was …show more content…
There are a lot of things that are not serious and can be taken multiple ways. But one topic that is extremely serious, and should be taken very seriously is the topic of racial harmony. In order to attain harmony in our country, we must come together in friendship, fellowship, and peacefulness in acceptance of one another. The synonyms for harmony are accord, agreement, peacefulness, friendship, fellowship, understanding, consensus, unity, and rapport. Those words sound so good but how do we get there when we are all so different from each other? I think there is a first big step that we are missing. We hear a lot about how we need to accept one another which I agree is very important but I think there is something just as important that has to happen first. First, we must bring our very best to the table. When I imagine a table within the groups in our lives whether it be church, school, family, our circle of friends and even our country, I imagine a part of the table for each member of the group all connecting, making up one