From the Bottom to the Top

From The Bottom to the Top

Coming from a family whose ancestors were slaves and uneducated, I have seen my family evolve into a bundle of success with owing their own business and graduating at the top of their class. This is why I think from the bottom to the top describes and continues to encompass the struggles and achievements of being black in America. Black describes a people that have endured slavery, persecution, discrimination, and even death due to the sole fact of the hue of our skin. As a people, we have made incredible strides and overcome painful trials and tribulations to rise from the ashes of inequality to level the playing field of justice within the last two hundred years.
As a young, black woman in today’s society, I recognize the intricate value of being comfortable within my own skin and yet know that I must still persevere to make others outside of my race, as well as some within my race reach that same comfort level. I am bombarded with images in t...