excert-new american class

My inspiration and mistakes have made me who i am!

 

 

Hello my name is Mia. I am 15 years old and have a great story to tell about my history, where I am now, and where I’m going in life. My dad is a role model to my African American family and me. My dad’s ancestors came from Africa. America was built on the backs of slavery. I am proud to show my pride.

My grandfather has had a hard life; his father was in construction in the lumberyard. He was killed by a construction accident, when telephone poles fell on him. That left my grandfather and his mother on their own to survive. A couple years later his mother was murdered in a bar in a tragic shooting. His grandmother raised him the rest of his young life. When my grandfather was getting his degree in college his grandmother got sick. So in her honor and as a grateful Christian and the respectful being that he is; he dropped out and went to Atlanta to take care of her. When she died she left everything to him. With that passion he found his love for landscape and created his own business. When he got married and had kids he wasn’t the greatest father to my dad and his brother and sisters; but I love him with all my heart. It’s sad that he is very sick but we as a family will get through it together in the end.