Racism And Prejudice
In my eight grade at Earl warren, I witnessed
numerous amounts of prejudice and
racism. Not saying names about certain
specific people but this said designated
person is a female. I’ve known this
girl since about the 2nd or 3rd grade so I
know about her school life well
enough to be able to tell this story. To my
knowledge, I feel she grew up, at
school, with a pleasant life as a young girl.
She wasn’t really known to
be one of the prettiest girls, but I guess she
could be considered a little
sweet heart. As the years progressed, we already
hit the fourth grade at
Skyline Elementary School. School started off as a
new-sprung and fresh start
for her little life. Even though there was more to
come in her new days,
there was probably more that she would encounter that she
would’ve ever
expected. It kills me to still think about this, but older
people in the 6th
grade had already been introduced to smoking and drinking.
This once
pleasant girl had a rendezvous with her new coming future. As known to
this
day adolescent minds should not come to face with such horrors. She
started
to hang out with the older more mature kids a mature kids, how had
better
experience with the subject, which had caused her young, innocent mind
to be
penetrated beyond its boundaries to a new step in her life. While, the
months
and years proceeded by in a normal fashion her way of life confronted
a huge
U-turn. For instance, she started to dress in a gothic manner of
wearing all
dark and gloomy colors as if you changed into a totally different
person. This
came to conclude with major prejudices from our fellow
classmates. I know how
people thought in 5th and 6th grade and to people in
that degree of age that was
thought to be really weird. Kids just thought
that because she wore constant
black and glum colors that she was scary and
dumb. I don’t know what anyone
else thinks, but saying someone is scary,
mean, weird, and just not cool or
normal just because the way the dress I
think that leans toward being prejudice.
These peculiar thoughts toward
her continued throughout her elementary school
years. She finally hit the 7th
grade and once again she became involved with the
older students, but for
some reason know that she was hanging out with older
people she was
considered to be cool and popular. She stopped dressing the way
she had
before for a reason UN apparent to she and myself just came to be one of
the
most popular girls in our school. Other girls even started to act the way
as
the ways as she did. Through out the year she wasn’t known to be one of
the
nicest girls she was actually kind of mean towards certain people.
Finally the
big 8th grade hit and since there were no older people to hang
out with she
finally decided to hang with people in her own grade. Through
this period of
time the drug abuse did not stop and neither did the drinking
prospect. That
year I was in her 8th grade English with her, designated in
the seat right
across from her. From undergoing her personal aspect I learned
a surplus of
knowledge of how she felt about different races of people. I
don’t know how
she got this prejudice feeling toward this race of people, but
she had a thing
against Asians. She would call them chinks and other
derogatory names and her
reply to this consumption is that they should go
back to their own countries.
Seriously I really thought of that thought
to be an appalling opinion coming
from no reason once so ever. I think that
she has gone through a bad life of
prejudges and hate towards her and she
back fired on it by using it as a
scapegoat to blame all of her problems and
past problems on this certain race.
Or this could be just because she is
really prejudiced and racist, or it could
have been problems at home. But
what I don’t get, is why after her elementary
school years of prejudicism
toward her and hatred and commenting behind her
back. That she would come
back later in her life and judge a race from the way
the look and act and
just the way they are for hardly a good reason. When I
think of this it
astonishes me. I picked this person because she has been
through a lot of
things in her life including prejudice. Things like this happen
everyday but
some times you don’t realize how much it happens Intel you
witness it. Other
acts of that sort are racism. When I was in elementary school
one of the
thought to be most popular guys in our school was African American.
He
got in a fight with another kid, who was Caucasian) and since the
African
American gut was raging on him so much and talking bad things to
him he called
him "ni**er". I don’t know if it came out of racism or just a
reaction,
but it was horrific reaction that happened in return of that. One
more
elementary school memory is how I remember when all the kids during
lunch would
go play basketball, everyone would want to join in on the little
theme of that
day. The guys at our school were very serious about playing
basketball and if
someone looked like they were not good enough to be able to
play well in a good
game they would not let that person participate. For
example, they would
especially not the girls play and me to, because I wasn’t
considered to be one
of the "cooler kids". So the girls, some of my friends
and I would go play
our own
game.