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Personal Narrative: The Negro Community

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The negro community is no stranger than disadvantage. Even on the surface of thought with the weapons Richard and his friend uses against the white children. Richard’s situation is a perfect foreshadow of modern society. He gets gashed with a broken glass bottle and instead of focusing on who threw it, he gets blamed. Where do we see that today ? Black men are getting killed by law enforcement and we exchange our justice with suspensions and discharge. Where is the equality ? For sure if I was white I wouldn’t feel threatened to today’s dangers of walking down the street. I feel worrisome with the sight of police even if I am certain I have done no crime. This feeling was not imprinted in my mind during birth. This rage was seen on TV, social

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