No Racism

I believe that people shouldn’t be racist. My belief ties back to my past as a Middle schooler being bullied and picked on because I was a Catholic. As a young 12 year old boy I just wanted for all the bullying to come to an end but most actions i took didn’t help me, sometimes me taking action by telling teachers and telling them to stop messing with me just made them pick on me more. I was picked on because of the way I dressed, action, and the kind of things I was interested.

I use to go to a Middle School in Harlem where I was made fun of cause of my religion since I am Catholic . I met friends who were Catholic but was also picked on and bullied just because of their religion. Now and then I was made fun of for things like the way we Hispanics dress and what we eat. I was joked on and made fun of. People in the halls would see me and say, “Hey, Spanish boy how was them rice and beans last night?” I just wanted to the jokes to be over with because I was so sick and tired of the jokes. People use to say out loud (knowing I was near them), “ Did you know Spanish people have a low chance of graduating high school and most likely to drop out of high school?” My emotions were everywhere at these times because I use to go from being happy to sad, then to depress, to miserable. Then I started feeling like I should give on everything like as if I feel that I shouldn’t try to do anything with my life.

Than later in the years of middle school, and from getting made fun of over and over again I got over it. I sometimes used their jokes and made it backfire towards them to make them look stupid.

I have also shown these kids that Spanish people can be bright and successful in life by getting good grades. The aspects of my belief was to show people that racism is the not way to go because someday those being picked on might show the other kids that they can turn out to be whatever they want. My believe that people shouldn’t be racist. This I believe.