Gender and Race/Ethnicity in Multiculturalism

I even had the opportunity to meet their parents and talk to them a little about their children 's experiences at home with their families . The potential and the energy in the kids from that inner city classroom were just the same , perhaps even greater than , my own when I was of that age

The only difference between myself and those kids were the opportunities I had growing up , opportunities that weren 't available to them just because they weren 't born like me , white and a male . This realization hit me

like a rock and I couldn 't help but feel the injustice of it There was so much potential but just because they grew up in the place where they did , some of them might never be able to maximize that potential . Some of them might even turn away from it and feel despair in their situations . I was floored . I never lived that way and growing up I never felt like as though anything was out of reach . I had access to many things that these children would never have such as quality education , luxuries at home , and other experiences that their parents would not be able to provide for them not because of a lack of desire to do so but because of the poor state of their finances

To supplement the experience I had in the inner city , I also did some research about Harlem in New York . This helped me see that African Americans were , in fact , such a resilient race . Given the same , perhaps even worse , conditions that I saw during my inner city experience , the individuals who used to live in Harlem were able to rise above and overcome those circumstances . Some of the most amazing individuals that were products of the...