After reading Going Against The Grain, I feel that one of the most important elements of this text is to inform people, especially black females, of how difficult it was to receive and education. In the present, resources are open to everyone for getting an education and because of this I feel that many people in our generation do not take their education seriously. In many ways, we have become very lethargic in our quest for education. In fact, some people won’t even use the resources allotted to them because they feel that getting an education is not worth the time or money needed to achieve a degree. Personally, I feel that because we now have the necessary resources to get an education right in front of us that we should be using them and setting a higher standard for the generation that is coming up after us. When we achieve something great, we need to give back to our communities and help show good examples of what educated women are so that next generation will have someone to look up to and strive even harder and set the standard even higher than our generation could ever think of. After all, our ancestors had to fight for the right to be educated, and what is the most that we have to do. Get good grades, fill out an application, compete for a scholarship, and wait on an acceptance letter. Compared to what our ancestors had to go through I think we have a silver platter set out for us. We should understand that because they did so much to fight for a better future for us and for us to be able to use our rights to education that we should put more value and appreciation with getting our education. All we have to do is think of all the things they did and it will to strive harder to get our education and influence the next generation to do the same so that we can build a better tomorrow.
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