I'm so tired of people blaming others for their falls. The one phrase among most African Americans is " the white man is holding me down". My brothers and sister has been free for over a decade ago, its not not them holding us back it's ourselves. To lazy to get up an challenge theresleves they blame other for the choices they make. We ourselves make these choices and we ourselves have to live in it. Although they say people learn from their mistakes, but when will the black community learn from theirs. So young and so eager to experience life my young peers make the wrong decision. I may be young but my mind is so enrich with wisdom, my age doesn't justify nor reflect my personality. Some people who read this may feel like i should stay in a child's place. I ask what place is that? When you've seen as much as i have then  u would know that age doesn't justify anyones  sense of knowledge. Many adults have grown up but still lack the sense of  knowledge because they've been blinded since birth. I'm old enough to know from my rights and wrongs and it didn't take me a life time. They say wisdom comes along with age, and i have to disagree. Wisdom comes along with life and what you've been through and how you develop from it. Age is just a number and sometime you can have the age but not the knowledge because you're still young-minded. I'm so tired of people judging a book by its cover and not by the inside. If you ever read the bible then you would know only God could judge thee, and frankly i've yet to see him. Facing life i realize there are going to be a lot of people trying to hold me down, but i would face the facts. I've been through the hardest part already by waking up everyday with racism and death. Life is a cruel place you just have to adjust to it, i just wonder if i will be by myself.

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