My Family Customs Essay

My family customs are very basic if you ask me. I think that the most cultural custom that my family observes is that we celebrate Kwanza. My family is very family centered. My family is very close a far as my immediate and intermediate family. My family has a family reunion every year and we meet all over the United States for it. Last year we went to Ocean City, Maryland and this year we will be in Lumberton, North Carolina. This is a time we my whole family gathers and we celebrate are ancestry and we honors are ancestors and those who have passed. We also acknowledge the educational gains of members of the family. I find the question of what cultural practices and customs do my family abide by to be very hard. To be honest I really don’t

Growing up I was scared to be a black male, because my parents always told me that I had a target on my back and it intern made me very nervous. I noticed there was a big difference in race when I went to elementary. I notice the achievement gap between whites and blacks at a very early age. The white kids were considered smart, they came from more affluent families and some of the students were very privileged. My first experience of experience racism was from a lot of my teachers in elementary I was often treated with a very weird stigma. I was not encouraged to work the same standard as the white students. I was bullied very severely from a very early age and the school that I went to for kindergarten through second grade I dealt with a lot of physical bullying from the students. The two bullies I had were both white and they were in 5th grade and they use to physically assault me every day before and after school from kindergarten through first grade. Then in second grade I had African American bullies who also physically assault me. My experience with the two whit bullies could have been stemmed from racial hate. When I transferred to my school in Bolton hill for 3rd grade, I experienced a different form of bullying which was verbal. So I often got into physical altercation with other students. So a lot of the teachers labeled me as a thug or use to tell me that I was too hood for this school. They even suggested that I transferred to a school that was full of students who they considered a better fit for me. The school they suggested was my zone school and the school has tons of issues as far as academic success, high suspension rates, violence. Though I tried really hard in elementary school it wasn’t until middle school where I gained a group of teachers who understood me and the experiences that I was going