Does white America really think things are better for blacks in this country? I wonder how they would handle waking up black in America. What would it be like to walk into a store in your own neighborhood and feel like you were a prisoner of war? As someone with a big gun would follow you, all around the store as you shop. Then when you get into your car to drive back to your home. You see a police follow you, and if you make the wrong kind of eye contact, he pulls you over. The reason being because this neighborhood is a drug neighborhood, and you were looking like you were looking for a drug house. When you apply for a job, your skin color might make you a risk for stealing from the company, or you might not have the right social skills.
If you go to buy a house or a car, they really dig deep. Looking for the slightest reason to deny you. Not because you are black, at least this is what they say. You have too many negative points on your credit report, or you just do not have enough credit at all. However, they can help you if you want to pay a very high interest rate. All of which will help you build up your credit, even though you will be half-dead by the time you pay for it. You can have the American dream; it will just cost you more. Oh yea speaking of paying more, you will pay more for many things in your own neighborhood food, medicine, and gas will probably cost you more.
But with all that you go through being black, it has made you strong. You have pride knowing that you are, and can make it. No matter how hard they try to make it for you, you keep on, keeping on. You find that anything you set your mind to, you can achieve. America may have dealt you a bad hand, but you find you have learned to play poker very well. Although you did not start with a lot, you are finding a way to win everyday. So, when you wake up in the morning, and you are black - thank God.
By: Chris Brown
Feb 17, 2001
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