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My Best Friend is Different

 

             What's different between her and you? Chances are, it's not your skin color. In our world, we're taught not to be friends with people who have a different color skin than we do, but I think differently. My best friend is different.
             Two years ago, about a week before my twelfth birthday, I was walking home from school when something unusual happened. Standing near my apartment building was a skinny girl about my age wearing a yellow cotton sundress. She seemed innocent, but she was one of "those kids- my mom had told me not to talk to "a colored girl.
             I bet you're wondering what I done. My mom had told me not to talk to kids like her, but no one was around. What could be so bad about colored girls? Something inside me told me this girl needed a friend. .
             I fought myself a bit, but finally I decided to talk to her. What harm could that cause, right? I wasn't sure what to say to her so I just said, "Hi. My name is Anna. How are you?- She said her name was Deidra. The whole 15 seconds we'd talked all I could think about was my mother's orders ""Don't talk to them little colored kids. They're bad."".
             Deidra and I kept talking and I learned that both her parents were out of work and money. Deidra wasn't going to school anymore because her parents couldn't afford to pay for her to go to school. Deidra's family had recently moved to the neighborhood where I lived and was the only colored family in our neighborhood. Because of this, Deidra didn't have any colored friends nearby to talk to. .
             I know most of you are thinking, "This girl is crazy!- I know, I'm not supposed to be friend with "colored kids- because I'm white. Everyone around me seems to think that white people are better than black people. We are all allowed to have our own opinions. You have yours, and I have mine.
             I go to church and read my Bible. My church friends think colored people are inferior people, but God and my Bible tell me different.


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