Diversity In The Classroom

Throughout my life I took it upon myself to learn about other cultures. I was attending high school with a population of primarily white students, many who were uninformed on the diversity of race and culture. I was joining sports, clubs, and took an array of electives so I could interact with people who may not have had personal relationships with people like me. I was progressing, in my freshman year I had been thrown an issue that I had understood but never experienced; racism. I had found myself defending who I was, and the culture I had learned so much. I had not understood where many of these statements had been coming from. The new friends that I made seemed to have turned their backs to what I stood so strongly for. There were large amounts of prejudice that I would experience, people thought they knew my background and personality based off …show more content…
I would listen to people say unthinkable things, ask outlandishly offensive questions, and make purely ignorant statements about Black people without recognizing that I was in the room. I had a newfound outlook on the less glorified view of what is like to be a minority. Since, I was immersed in such a culturally diluted environment, there were very few people to come to my aid when situations had occurred. I remember being in classrooms where there were practically no other people to support my standpoints. I often saw many Black people using these prejudices as a gateway into friendships or acceptance. They had given away their self respect, and turned their backs to their culture. They failed to realize what they were doing was wrong; they had not understood that supporting these prejudices was not going to make things better. I feel that there is a divide and I am stuck