It is not often that you, the black culture, come together on a cohesive agreement to work as a team. No member of African culture recognizes their own people for their achievements, but rather tries to discourage them. Additionally, when times are hard for our race, we do not fight problems together, but rather alone. In the United States, people fight internally against themselves based on how they think others perceive them. The feeling of being wanted and accepted by one's peers is an essential element to a person's ultimate well-being. African Americans in particular face certain questions within themselves despite being most likely a minority in certain environments. For example, an African American student attending a predominantly white college would wonder, “Why is everyone looking at me?” Why am I so different from others? Maybe if I changed my look I would fit in better? It is a lack of self-awareness and low self-esteem. In the book WEB Du Bois, in his book, The Souls of Black Folks, explained the reason for this lack of self-confidence in the race as a whole. He stated that African Americans were "born with a veil and gifted with second sight into the American world, a world which gives him no true self-awareness, but only allows him to see himself through the revelation of the other world”. But how can we expect it to be respected by others if we don't respect ourselves? To respect someone else, you must first respect yourself. Many people often overlook this point, but it is important that we help others, especially those of our kind. Otherwise, the world will continue to be as it is and none of our problems will be solved. Instead, we will continue to have this society in which everyone hates their own people, and after a while, these hatreds grow, fester and