African American Persuasive Speech

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Young African American student, you have made it. It is the day of your high school graduation, tears are clouding eyes, applause fills the air, and you almost miss a step as you make your move to retrieve your diploma. As you peer out into the crowd to revel in the fact that your high school journey is officially over, your eyes connect with those of your younger sibling like two electric currents. Watching you graduate that day proved to them that it was possible for them too to become a high school graduate, but is that it? Will you prove to them that the color of their skin does not limit the opportunities that they can have in life? Will you take that leap towards higher education and stand among the other African American youth with nothing …show more content…
By just sitting down, on time and ready to your first college lecture you have brought your community one step closer to increasing the amount of African American people in notable jobs and one step closer to increasing the amount of African Americans in leadership positions, which is the kind of impact you will have on society. For decades the African American community has been bullied and degraded, called lazy, uneducated, and made out to be inferior. African Americans have had to fight for basic human rights in this country for far too long. In the 1900s they fought for the right to an equal and awarding education, and for hundreds of years before they found themselves fighting for the right to simply read and write. If it was not for those ancestors who fought so that their children and the children of the future could have the same opportunities as many others then this generation of African American youth would not be in the position they are in now. So now that African American students have the opportunity to achieve higher education, they are applying themselves even more than before. The marginalization of the African American community will be brought to an end as …show more content…
The next time you cross a stage and catch the eye of your younger sibling I hope it is at your college graduation ceremony, I hope that by then they know what college they plan on going to, and that just by watching you cross that stage that they know who they want to be. You are a part of the increase in African American college enrollment, I am a part of the increase in African American college enrollment, and society will be at a loss for words as the numbers continue to rise. You cannot be, what you cannot see, so be the example of a strong intelligent African American individual who your siblings can see and then they will follow
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