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Niki, my best fr�iend, is a really good kicker and usually gets a homc run. Right as Niki <br />was about to kick the Uall the bell rang to go back inside. All of us groaned, because who <br />wants to go back to schooi? So we all started to ruu to the doors, our tennis shoes <br />smacking against the pavcment when al1 of a sudden Niki and I heard someone ye11 <br />"blackey." Niki is Hawaiian so her skin is kind of dark. Niki whipped her head around <br />Iooking for the person that yelled that to her. We spatted three 5�' grade giirls glaring at <br />Niki. She looked shocked and she glared back...After that incident vvhenever we saw <br />those girls they would yell "blackey" at Niki or ask hcr if she was the devil. By the tizne <br />Niki and I wcre reaily fed up with those girls, so we decided to tell one of the assista.nt <br />teachers. He said that he would talk to thc girls, but they still yelled "blackey." I don't' <br />know if he talked to them about it or if they just decided to ignore him. I hope he did <br />because discrimination is a rcally bad thing and it needs to be stopped! <br />Towards the middle of il�.e school year, a ncw student came to my school and was in my <br />class, She was transferred from another elementary school and happened to be South <br />Africa.n. Immediately I noticed people looking at her and snicker�ng. A certain group of <br />girls would get togcthcr and talk behind her back. They would say she smelled and ]ooked <br />��y. <br />Discriminatio�a-Gender <br />Another act of discrixnuiation, that wasn't directed ai me, hut at all the girls in my sixth <br />grade. We had this whole debaie in social studies about how guys are perceived as the <br />more dominant gender. Thc guys vve:re saying that womcn should stay home and cook and <br />clean for the men. When tb.e :rnen get home the women should have a meal already hot and <br />ready for thern to eai. <br />Discrimin ation-Reli giou s <br />A group of six siudents walked up to me on the bus and noticed that I was wearing a <br />necklace with a cross on it and a W.W.J.D. bracclet. They asked me if 1 was a Chnstian or <br />a Jew, and I replied that I was a Christian. Right away, they started to say I vcras an idiot <br />because I believed in Clu-istianity, and they replied that everybody was made of slime or <br />evalved from monkeys. I tried to defend my religion by saying that we were made by the <br />one and only God and that he gave his only son, Jesus, to die here on carth fo:r our sins. <br />Unfortunately, they ignored me and hit me...The student that told the bus driver came back <br />and asked me if I was ok and to see if I needed to call my mom to go to the doctor. <br />Discrimination-S exu aI Oricntation <br />Something that I have noticed within the last 2 or 3 years is that in school I have started to <br />hear the phrase "Tl1al's so gay" more and more. I don't know if people don't realize that <br />they are discrizxzinatulg against those who are gay or if they know and don't really care, buE <br />what � do know is that it is discrirninating and it hurts everyone who hears it. Maybe it <br />doesn't hurt them personally, bui every time that somebody says that, it is hurting <br />somebody. I knew a giri l.ast year who considered herself gay. Every day tha� she went to <br />schooi she was freated hombly, yet she always stayed herself, and nevez tires to change <br />hersclf. She went throngh so much last year that I am surpriscd that she could continue <br />coming to school and was able to remain irue to herself. She was lripped and pushed in the <br />