Each February, Jerry Neblett reads about the lives of African Americans in magazines and local newspapers. He appreciates that America devotes the second month of each year to publicizing African American heritage.
American dictionaries say heritage is anything people inherit at birth.
Not only fortunes and estates can be one's heritage, but also non-material gifts, such as family tradition, culture, and right. Neblett has worked hard and thus thrived in a country where once he, as an African American, would have been denied the chance to try. The opportunities he has today exist because of a battle waged by men and women hungry for a chance to compete. Neblett's heritage, the wealth he inherited at birth, was this chance. My heritage is important because I feel it is up to me to portray a positive image of a young black man, through my attitude toward others of all creeds.