Mark Twain's Poem 'Overland Roots'

The poem "Overland Roots," in my own words, is a poem on how the author wishes that all races could coincide. In the first stanza, people push to be a sure way to hold onto their culture. All ethnicities try to hold on to their traditions and culture, but some only do things that they want to do or the way they think, so words can quickly get distorted. They don 't want to let go of the past and move on and stop fighting to hold onto their roots.

"I am a brother by birth—and not a "brother" by skin" implies that the author didn 't choose to be born with the race or sex he was given. People are automatically classified as soon as he is born into this world. Our race is a thing that is supposed to connect us to our history. We are stuck with it, and not by choice; which reminds me that the article, "Black Like I Thought I Was." He was raised one way but come to find out DNA wise he wasn 't part of that race, only his skin color was. Every person should be proud of ones’ heritage and where they come from. We shouldn’t treat someone different due to the color of their skin or due to

One day, like the most of us, get curious about our genetic DNA, and he took one of those tests. When the results came back, they didn 't come back as he thought. Even though his skin said he was African American, his genetic makeup said a different story. He was raised as an African American, with their traditions and culture. He felt like he had just lost his cultural and racial identity. Just because you found out that you are "technically" of a different race doesn 't change how you were raised. He still had all the unique traditions that his elders taught him, and the ones that he would continue to teach his children. He can use the information that he has learned from the DNA test and educate future generations. The color of our skin doesn 't always mean we are that