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Niki, my best friend, is a really goad kicker and usually gets a home run. Right as Niki <br />was about to l�ck the ball the be11 rang to go back inside. All of us groaned, because who <br />wants to go back to school? So we all startcd to run to the doors, our tennis shaes <br />smacking against ihe pavement wY�en all of a sudden Niki and I heard someone yell <br />"blackey." Niki is Hawaiian so her skin is kand of dark. Niki whipped her head around <br />looking for the person that yelled that ta her. We spotted th�ree S�' grade girls glaring at <br />Niki. She looked shocked axad she glared back...After that incident whenever we saw <br />those girls they would yell "blackey" at Niki or ask hcr if she was the devi�. By the time <br />Niki and � were really fed up with those girls, so we decided to tell one of the assistani <br />teachers. He said tllat he would talk to the. girls, but they still yelled "blackcy." Y don't' <br />know if he tallced to ihem about it or if they just decided to igb.ore him. I hope he did <br />because discrimination is a zeally bad thing and it needs to be stopped! <br />Towards ihe middle of ihe school year, a new student came to my school and was in my <br />class. She was transferred from another elementary school and happened to be South <br />Afi-ican. Immediately I noticed peoplc looking at her and snickenng. A certazn �roup of <br />gizls would gei together and talk behind her back. They would say she smelled and looked <br />funny. <br />Discrimination-Gender <br />Another act o� discrimination, that wasn'# darected at m.e, but at all the girls in my sixth <br />grade. We hac� t1�is whole debate in social studies about how guys are perceived as the <br />more dominant gender. The guys were saying that women should stay home and cook a.r�d <br />cleaz� for the men. When the men get home the women shauld have a rneal already ho# and <br />ready for them to eat. <br />Discrimin ation-Religious <br />A group of six students wall�ed up to me on thc bus and noticed that I was wearing a <br />necklace with a cross on it aud a W.W.J.D. bracelet. Thcy asked me if 1 was a Christian or <br />a Jew, and I replied ihat i was a Christian. Right away, they startcd to say I was an idiot <br />because I believed in Christianity, and they replied that evezybody was miade of slirne or <br />evolved from moiikeys. I tzzed to dcfcnd my religion by saying that we were made by the <br />one and only God and that he gave his only son, Jesus, to dic here on earth for our sins. <br />Unfortunately, tk�ey ignored me and hit ine...The student that told the bus driver carne back <br />and asked me if I was ok and to sce if I needed to call my mom ta go to the doctor. <br />Dis cri�na.ination-Sexu al Orientation <br />Something that I have noticed witban the last 2 or 3 years is that in school I have started to <br />hear the phrase "That's so gay" more ax�d ;nr�ore. I don't know if people don't realize that <br />they are discrzzninating against those who are gay or if they knaw az�d don't zeally care, but <br />what I do lrnow is tl�at it is discriminating and it hurts everyone who hears it. Maybe it <br />doesn't hurt them personally, but every time that somebody says that, it is hurting <br />somebody. I lrnew a girl last year who conszdezed herseif gay. Every day that she went to <br />school she was treated hoi-ribly, yet she always stayed herself, and never tires #o chaa�ge <br />herself. She went tbu-ough so much last year that 1 am surprised that she could continue <br />coming to school and was ahle to remain true to herself. She was tripped and pushed in the <br />