Personal Narrative: The Black History Club

When I was a child, my favorite movie was The Wizard of Oz. Out of all of Dorothy’s friends, the Cowardly Lion was probably my least favorite. He had gone to ask the Wizard for courage and I didn’t understand why. Others wanted tangible items such as a brain or a heart and yet he wanted courage. I had thought of courage as something that you just dug down and found within yourself when you needed it not something not just a material thing that was necessary to live like a brain or a heart. Courage is something I always felt I had within, but it was confirmed within myself when my school hit major news over racial issues.
I grew up in the town of Flower Mound, Texas. The demographic of the town was primarily white with a smaller Asian and African-
The two of us had both grown up in Flower Mound and never felt like race was a major problem in our lives, especially not to the degree the world thought it was. The two of us wanted the rest of the world to the town that we grew up in and how race was not a big issue. We decided to do this by restarting the Black History Club at our school.
The Black History Club was something that had been around during my freshman year of high school, but had ended once the current president graduated. Though it was named the Black History Club we did not just sit around and talk about African -American history at our meetings. The Club was more of a place to discuss African -American culture but we decided to revamp it. Like the old Black History Club our new club held the name yet we decided to use it as a more than just a club about African- American history. We were going to use it as a platform to bring people of all different races and ethnic backgrounds together not just African- Americans. In the first few meetings we had mainly talked about what happened at that basketball game and how it had affected all of our lives. We all agreed that this was not the Flower Mound we had grown up in and decided that we were going to leave that situation in the past and no longer discuss it. We focused more on everyone’s different cultural backgrounds and how it made us unique. We showed the school that just because the demographic was primarily white it did not mean that we all were. We were full of other cultures that should be embraced and