Oppression by Generation - Someone Has to Break the Chain

Someone Has To Break The Chain!

For many years many cultures feel they have been hindered from exercising human rights rights. In particular, African Americans feel as though they have been held back physically. Tracing back to the roots of it all, slavery, was the most inclusive way of holding one's mind and freedom back. In the 21st century, African Americans are using slavery as an excuse for being held back. Even from childhood we grew up learning about the great African Americans that helped make the United States our home and equal rights what it is today. We dedicate a whole month (by the way it is the shortest month) to the individuals that sacrificed their body, minds, and civil rights for us to be free.

However African Americans are not held back from reaching any goal they set forth to accomplish. One of the reasons why they tend to be back on things is because during childhood they teach their children the wrong things. The greatest time to teach someone something is when they are under the age of 6 and it has been proven. The reason is because the mind is in its "copy cat" mode, as I like to say. When the child is at a young age, the parents should be showing and displaying a positive life around the child, reading them books, buying them educational videos/video games, and letting them watch educational cartoons. Instead many African American parents engage in buying the child name brand clothes instead of books, letting them watch B.E.T instead of PBS, and buying them grand theft auto instead of leap frog games. We as a whole procrastinate until the child is in pre-school when the learning really starts at home. Also manners that we learn at home are essential to not being held back because, if you have bad manners, then you will be held back from not only a job but people too.

Not only just African Americans but people in general are big procrastinators. We tend to do things at the very last second. Most of my peers are African Americans, and I have seen them wait until the mid-term to study for a course they are struggling in. The peers I have invest their money into the latest fads such as phones, iPods, and tennis shoes. Other cultures in the same age group invest their money into stock and their college education from earlier ages. Also many blacks procrastinate until the last minute to pay bills and something happens, so they tend to get in debt. We put off things that we can do today for tomorrow, and that is when eventually tomorrow becomes too soon and we fall behind. We always blame others as to why we have not gotten things done or why we were late for things when really the only excuse is you. If you had left early for work, you would not have been stuck in traffic; or if we had started on our research paper when given the opportunity, then you would not have to wait on the library computer to be fixed on the day the paper is due. Procrastination is like