Essay Idea

After browsing through the essay once more, I found a quote that sparked my interest. A woman named Margery A. Turner explained how her community has an almost equal ratio of blacks and whites, and sees her county, Prince George's County in Maryland, as an example for integration. The response from a... well an interesting fellow named Radamase Cabrera went like this, "What I reject is this notion we are aiming toward an integrated county. African Americans should be aiming toward an ability to control our own destiny."

The question I would like to discuss is: What is an African American's "own destiny," and why should they push for their own rather than help create a single destiny for all Americans?

This is a bit off topic but I thoroughly enjoyed his usage of the term African American -a ridiculous term in my opinion- and it got me wondering why Mexican's and Canadian's who've immigrated to the U.S. arn't reffered as North Americans. And also, would you call a white person from Africa, such as a South African, who immigrated to the U.S. an African American? I wonder.