In this essay it is required that I describe a setting in that I have interacted with those who have experiences and/or beliefs different from my own. Well being a young African American born and raised in Texas that’s not too difficult. From all the different schools I’ve attended, from just the few places I have called home, from just all the places I have visited I have definitely come in contact and had to work with people that are different than me. The seventeen years of my life I have walked amongst those who walk, talk, and think different than me. My three points will be pulled from my elementary years, to my time in middle school, ending with my high school years. Let me start telling by you about my kindergarten years. I remember
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One year there was one person in particular that our worlds didn’t collide very well together. I won’t use the other person name for this story I’ll call him Chris (The Bully). Chris was a student at LCA since kindergarten however we didn’t meet until third grade but the bullying started in junior high. We would fight a lot and sometime we would be angry at each other for a while. The attacks against me were starting to get physical but I barely fought back. I still didn’t realize I was being bullied at this time but when he started picking out how I act I started to understand that I was being bullied. Namely he said I wasn’t black or that I didn’t act it. He said I only fell under the bare minimum of the stereotypes like eating chicken and liking Kool-Aid but didn’t act tough or rap or at least the listen to hip-hop. However it was when I understood that he was there not to lift me up but only to cut me down I had protect myself so I fought back from what he said and when that fight was resolved I went to my parent about what had happened. So when we had to be close to each other I would respect him and talked to him when necessary because that is what I have always been told by my parents and teachers and I stand behind that. The bully was finally removed from the school but not because something between us, he did something that violated the school ethics was remove from
One year there was one person in particular that our worlds didn’t collide very well together. I won’t use the other person name for this story I’ll call him Chris (The Bully). Chris was a student at LCA since kindergarten however we didn’t meet until third grade but the bullying started in junior high. We would fight a lot and sometime we would be angry at each other for a while. The attacks against me were starting to get physical but I barely fought back. I still didn’t realize I was being bullied at this time but when he started picking out how I act I started to understand that I was being bullied. Namely he said I wasn’t black or that I didn’t act it. He said I only fell under the bare minimum of the stereotypes like eating chicken and liking Kool-Aid but didn’t act tough or rap or at least the listen to hip-hop. However it was when I understood that he was there not to lift me up but only to cut me down I had protect myself so I fought back from what he said and when that fight was resolved I went to my parent about what had happened. So when we had to be close to each other I would respect him and talked to him when necessary because that is what I have always been told by my parents and teachers and I stand behind that. The bully was finally removed from the school but not because something between us, he did something that violated the school ethics was remove from