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Terrible times and still occurs today. When I was 12 years old, I was walking home with my friends. Another classmate was with his friends and he through a glass bottle toward me yelling racial slur to me. The bottle didn't hit me, he left me alone after the bottle broken. I ignored him and my friends was just in shock seeing another classmate fuel with hatred. Its really sad how racism gets taught by most of the time grown up family.

The Tyson side also into music. My father knew how to play several instruments. I used to know how to play the clarinet when was child. My half-brothers know how to play the guitar. My father recorded his music and preaching on reel tapes. Recently, I sent the tapes out to restore and hope the restoration place

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