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Just Trying To Help - College Term Paper

Just Trying To Help

Over the course of my life I have been faced with some uncomfortable situations due to the racial diversity of my family. I have seven cousins that are mulatto, two cousins that are Chinese, one aunt who is Japanese, and one of my uncles is engaged to a Korean woman. When I was younger it would really bother me to hear people say things such as nigger, or gook, but I was too embarrassed and afraid to say anything in defense. I would never add anything to the insults, but now I feel that by not saying anything I was just about as guilty as the other person was. Now that I am more confident in myself I am able to tell people when their comments are rude or offensive to me. Although ...

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students. One of the few black students, Kaasa, happened to be in my phy-ed class during the first semester of my sophomore year. The problem was that Mike Hartman was also in the same class. Mike was kind of known to the people in our grade as “Mr. Racism”. He was always quick to come up with a “nigger joke”, or to tell everyone how much better he was than the entire black community. This really ticked me off, and Mike knew it. Ever since the day that I made damn sure Mike wasn’t ever going to run off his mouth in front of me, he thought hard about what he was going to say when I was within earshot. Mike never would say anything directly to Kaasa, but he made it clear that he didn’t want to be in the same class as him. Kaasa is a very athletic person so he was usually the first one picked when we chose teams in class. Mike would always mumble something under his breath like, “I wonder why they picked him? I bet the little black boy can really play ball.” I told Kaasa ...

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Added: 3/6/2008 04:49:48 AM
Category: Creative Writing
Type: Free Paper
Words: 1070
Pages: 4

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