Black?

Randall Kenan is a very true man, he made his point very boldly about what is black and how is it determined. That question needs to be thrown out there more than it is, to the common people. I am not black and I do not completely understand the problems and complications that they have dealt with while growing up and over the years. It is interesting though for me to read them, from someone that was in school and dealt with them. Chapel Hill would have been truly honored in my point of view, for allowing Randall to come back and speak to a group of people, as he was a black male of eight hundred, while there were twenty thousand students at the school at the time. It was a big deal and he wanted to make sure everyone understand what he went through.

Randall made a good point, from where he was from there are still many that struggle, and are like his grandfather who has lived in one place his whole life. That is a man, that has known his land and is passionate about where he lives. Randall on the other hand, like he said has changed his address many more times in that past year. He is able to talk to friends all over the world, and just because he is black he is not determined to be something he is not.

I think it is very important for people to read a story like this and see that some good came out of some of the people that grew up in a poorer income family and now is writing stories about his life. I believe that he wants others to learn from how he grew and for boys that are struggling to figure out if they fit in, to read his story and learn that they can find a way to fit in like he did.

I thought it was interesting when he said he tutored black boys but it may not have been because of the fact that he was helping them, but more for the fact that he was helping himself, and seeing other black people while he was in college. I cannot imagine being one of few in a position that you are not included in on everything and commonly left out just because you are of a different skin color. I also cannot imagine telling someone where I was from and having their eyes get big, and then relate it to somewhere where my forefathers may have been from, but for me it was somewhere local and was my hometown.

I can know more understand from reading this what some people went through. Everyone is taught in school and in history, but to fully get an understanding from it, from reading a story that was written by a man that dealt with it, is a true learning experience.