Narrative Essay On Family Diversity

On the 29th of August in 1992 at Richland Memorial Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina around 5:51 A.M, there was a beautiful baby girl born in the back seat of her aunt’s car right outside the hospital named Sharmell Kaleliah Valencia Davis. I was so pale that everyone mistaken me for another race. I was named after my mother, grandmother, my father and my mother, sister, Sharmell is after Charlene, my mother, sister, Kaleliah being after my grandmother, Lela, Valencia is after my mother, Valerie and Davis after my father. I believe my family had a tradition with names because my sister and I had the Sh or Ch sounds and it was spelled in that form. I was the only daughter was not expected to be born and I was born with a knot in the back …show more content…
I was a peer educator and students related to me because I was just like them and we understood one another rather than speaking to an adult who do not know the trends and what is going on around in today’s generation. My opinion is that people in the same generation understand each other more than a different generation because older adults had a different view on life where some had to deal with seeing the signs of racism to where children today are just getting partial of what parents have been through. For example, blacks and whites had their own bathrooms and blacks had to get their food from the back rather than walk in. In society, people do not know how to look pass color or skin tones. In small towns or cities, people do not have support systems to turn to for help in mental illness or racism because their cities support money rather than serious issues. Mental illness needs to be supported everywhere, especially for the youth, more youths will face mental illness because they are transitioning from one place to another or one school to another and they need