In my eight grade at Howard M Phifer Middle School, I witnessed numerous amounts of prejudice and racism. Not saying names about certain specific people but this said designated person is a male. I’ve known this guy since about the 2nd or 3rd grade so I know about his school life well enough to be able to tell this story. To my knowledge, I feel he grew up, at school, with a pleasant life as a young boy. He wasn’t really known to be one of the coolest guys, but I guess he could be considered a good kid. As the years progressed, we already hit the fourth grade at Roosevelt Elementary School. School started off as a new-sprung and fresh start for his little life. Even though there was more to come in her new days, there was probably more that he would encounter that he would have 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 boy had a meeting with his new coming future. As known to this day adolescent minds should not come to face with such horrors. He started to hang out with the older more mature kids a mature kids, how had better experience with the subject, which had caused his young
Through this period of time the drug abuse did not stop and neither did the drinking prospect. That year I was in his 8th grade English with him, designated in the seat right across from him. From undergoing his personal aspect I learned a surplus of knowledge of how he felt about different races of people. I don’t know how he got this prejudice feeling toward this race of people, but he had a thing against Asians. He would call them chinks and other derogatory names and his 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 he has gone through a bad life of prejudges and hate towards him and he back fired on it by using it as a scapegoat to blame all of his problems and past problems on this certain race. Or this could be just because he is really prejudiced and racist, or it could have been problems at home. But what I don’t get, is why after his elementary school years of prejudice toward him and hatred and commenting behind his back. That he would come back later in his 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 he has been through a lot of things in his life including prejudice. Things like this happen everyday but some times you don’t realize how much it happens until you witness it. <
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