African Americans In The 21st Century

In the 21st century, African-American had become one of the majorities of the American population; they have the right to vote, plenty of opportunities of receiving college education and pursuing the lives they want as ordinary American. However, it was not easy for most of the African American to succeed in life prior to 1980 century because people usually consider them as the gangsters or criminals. Therefore, African American had to work extremely hard so that they could become successful. This memoir was about the one of three African-American boys whose name was Sam, and how he succeeded on becoming the doctors when he was in struggles. He lived in Newark, New Jersey, and met with Rameck and George in University High; a high school that …show more content…
Mea nwhile, the mentoring by student counselor of Seton Hall University whose name was Carla Dickson had also helped Sam to avoid any possible injury from his old friends. Even though Sam had made a poor decision of helping his friend to commit robbery, his thoughtfulness had knocked him on his mind, making him realized the decision he made was wrong, therefore he changed his mind to avoid further mistake. As we could see, after Sam had decided to change himself to be a good person and received help from the outside world, he would be able to achieve his goal. In the modern society, there were still many young people like Sam who need our supports. However, they are not as lucky as Sam; most of them have not opportunity to go to college, some of them are still making wrong decisions such as selling drugs for living. If we do not support and care about them, these young people may become criminal and go to jail in the future. To make their lives better, we could raise the fund through the society for them, talk with them about their problems in their life, and letting them to be happier by playing sport with them. I believe this world could be better if we helped these young people with most of our