My Experience With Racial Indifference In Junior High School

My first serious encounter with racial indifference was in junior high school several adolescents in my neighborhood were selected for a pilot program bussing students from a less socioeconomic community to a predominately white affluent middle school.

Approximately the third day of school several white students started chasing the African American students to the bus stop. This occurred for the next three days my friends and I dismissed their behavior as nothing more than a juvenile prank. However, on the third day one of my male friends stopped running and the white kids quickly surrounded him they appeared as an angry mob. My friend and one of the male white students got involved in a physical altercation. The altercation ended rather …show more content…
When the dismissal bell rang we all started walking to the bus of course the white students were waiting on the field for us. I think they were in utter shock we were not running I was approached by a female white student who wanted to engage me in a physical altercation I made it explicitly clear to her I did not want to engage her in a fight. She threw a punch and therefore, I had to protect myself a serious physical altercation ensued. Once we were separated, she was bleeding profusely from her mouth and I suffered cuts to my knuckles. When I arrived home my parents and grandparents were fully knowledgeable of the physical altercation. I was given the opportunity to explain the rationale for my behavior. After explaining to both my parents and grandparents what happened and why they were all in complete dismay. My grandmother cleaned my knuckles while my mother contacted the parents of my friends. My friend's parents came to our residence in an effort to sort through the situation that occurred between their kids and the white kids. There was a severe miscommunication from the principal about the events