Racism Reflection Paper

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My perception of our society is racism exists everywhere. To this day I don’t understand people need to put people down because they feel racial superior to them. I am aware of the fact that there is racism against not only blacks, but also whites, Asians, along with people from all other ethnicities. Racism should not be tolerated in any form and people using it need to be punished, since it’s such a deplorable action. Since I was little this has been issue and I do my best not to be mean to anyone because I know how it can hurt. One of my first experiences of racism that has affected me was when I was in kindergarten. The conflict was between me and another white student, Cameron Jameson. Cameron was this boy who smelled like cigarettes and looked like he was part of some biker gang. He was coming after me like I knocked over every one of his motorcycles. But, I was this sweet little Asian boy who did not want to get into any conflicts with anyone and just wanted to have a care free kindergarten.
We were playing a simple game of catch out in the school playground, when he started pelting me with the ball, repeatedly. Over and over again whipping the ball, to the point that I had bruises from
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Zimlich and the nincompoop that I got angry at her. While I’m sitting there crying, my teacher decided to call him over, and asked him why he is bullying me? And, like a scared little turd, he lied to her and said that he didn’t know he was hurting me and that he would never do it again. Since my teacher was satisfied with his answer, our teacher told us to go and play that catch game again. But, you know where this story is going. He did it again and gave me more bruises and I was sick of it. He called me a big baby and all the names in a kindergartner book. But by now it was the end of recess and we were going inside. He cut in front of me and I just let it go because I knew it was going to continue on for a very long

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