Clint Smith's How To Raise A Black Son In America

Clint Smith is an American writer, teacher, and a speaker for TED Talk. During our class, we listened to two of his speeches in titled, “How to Raise a Black Son in America” and “The Danger of silence”. Based on these two speeches he gave examples on racism, discrimination, and how it has affect our society and the effects it has when you do nothing about it. The overall message of “How to Raise a Black Son in America” was to tell people that is was like growing up as an African American boy. He told the audience how his parents taught him that just because you look a certain way people will see you differently from the way them see themselves. Especially since he was African American he was
I think the best speeches come from life experience and he has had experience on this topic. I learned from this speech that most African American males and females were all raised the same. Our parent taught us to be aware of who we are, and to always think before we act because even if we do something that someone else might do doesn’t mean we can do the same thing. Th message of “The Danger of Silence” was to me if you have a problem or you see a problem you should say something about it. The longer you wait to say something, the worse the situation can become. He also says that no matter what race you are you should speak up for everyone. No one deserves to be discriminated against and treated unfairly. Basically, saying silence is a bad thing and all you ever need is your voice. This speech was persuasive because its telling people that they need to speak up. If you know somethings not right you need to say something. He was talking about how he tells his students that they need to speak up if something is wrong, if they see that something is wrong with someone else, or if they just want to speak up to say something period. Even though the told his student that, it can also apply to everyone. Especially with what been going on with the past election. People have been speaking up a lot, but I think more needs to happen we shouldn’t be living in a divided country it just doesn’t feel