I am different from my family and friends because we all have different ambitions and ideas of what we want out of life. ... We were best friends. At the end of the year my mother let me invite a few friends over to have a swimming party. ... He grew up in an all white neighborhood and had very little confrontations with African Americans. ... My dad is very loving person, but he believed Crystal to be so different than us that he would not let me be friends with her. ...

• Word Count: 526
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• Grade Level: High School

In our world, we're taught not to be friends with people who have a different color skin than we do, but I think differently. ... The whole 15 seconds we'd talked all I could think about was my mother's orders ""Don't talk to them little colored kids. ... Because of this, Deidra didn't have any colored friends nearby to talk to. ... My church friends think colored people are inferior people, but God and my Bible tell me different. ... Deidra and I have been through a lot of criticism and ridicule together, but we continue to be best friends. ...

• Word Count: 470
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The Civil Rights movement was a very hard time for many blacks in the United States. African Americans had to fight for their rights. They fought to be able to sit on a bus in the seat of their choice, sit at a lunch counter, go to a decent public bathroom, integrate schools, and most importantly th...

• Word Count: 538
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Blacks roles in films have come along way since the days of blackface, were blacks had no choice but to degrade themselves only to get little recognition for the challenging characters that they portrayed. ... The strongest point that I took away from the movie was that two individuals were able to overcome stereotypes as well as personal issue to become friends, which I believe was one of the points that were being fought upon in the Civil Rights....

• Word Count: 313
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

In the short story "Recitatif", Morrison removes all racial codes from the narrative, for which racial identity is crucial in order, to give out a message that race is not important to become friends. In the novel and the short story, Morrison is able to relate herself to the racial indiscrimination and labels that her and her friends were exposed to as young children. ... When Morrison was a child, her and her friends called each other names but they didn't think it was serious. ... " Another reason that inspired Morrison to write the novel is because of a little girl she...

• Word Count: 1083
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

On the one hand, the analogy was humorous; but on the other hand, my heart sunk when I saw Riley, Huey's little brother, being isolated and neglected by the kids on the playground. ... I have several friends who are Black, but I never imagined the social stigma inherited by the color of their skin until I read through the stories from The Boondocks. My ignorance is probably due to my lack of initiative to talk deeper with my friends who may be struggling with racial issues. ...

• Word Count: 805
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"Little man, chest-deep in water, scooped up a handful of mud, and in a uncontrollable rag, scrambled up to the road and ran after the retreating bus. ... Mud Eater" wafted from the open windows, Little man threw his mud ball, missed the wheels by several feet. ... If a white person made friends with a black person, then they would have been frowned upon, and told not to continue such a "silly" friendship. ... Many adults were treated with little intelligence, and in theory, were bullied with fear. ...

• Word Count: 824
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

After hearing the teachings of Elijah Muhammad he changed his surname from Little to X. He considered Little as being his slave name and choose X to signify his lost tribal name. ... Leaving the Nation of Islam "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our true friends....

• Word Count: 646
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She did have a black nurse and also is quoted in saying " I've always had Slater 3 a great respect for my colored friends", but she also refers to the nurse as "darky". Another situation is when they got off the bus and she tries giving the little black boy a penny. ...

• Word Count: 538
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

A newborn baby cries because he wants attention from his parents who are fighting in the other room. The parents discontinue the bickering and tend to their sweet little baby boy. When he is present, the arguing stops for the combating parents, and this seems to be the only time and place that they ...

• Word Count: 738
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Racism is a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial difference produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. These primary determinants affect everyone, everyday of their lives. I realized this when my family moved from southern Californi...

• Word Count: 671
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• Grade Level: High School

I think I am dating myself a little but a wife and mother staying home to take care of the house and the kids was not just common it was also expected and respected. ... I guess I am a little old school when it comes to this kind of thing. ... If I threw that one out there in greeting a black friend, I am sure we wouldn't remain friends for very long. ...

• Word Count: 1158
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Maggie, much like Mama, with little education, "stumbles," as she reads and, "loves and understands her family and can appreciate its history," as she knows how to quilt and holds that dear to her heart (Christian 455). ... Since returning from university, Dee (Wangero) has much of an appreciation for the quilts not because she is compassionate about them but so she can put them on display for her friends to see. ...

• Word Count: 1247
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is set in the 1930's in the little rural county of Maycomb where Atticus Finch and his two children, Jem and Scout live, during a time of racial discrimination. ... Mayella would not have tried to kiss Tom if social prejudice had not excluded her from white society – Mayella does not even seem to understand the idea of "friends" when Atticus asks her about them. ...

• Word Count: 1230
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

She is expecting to cash in on her family treasures either monetarily or by showing them to her high society friends to gain acceptance, without acknowledging her family roots. ... She cares little about how she gets them, and even less about the family that made them. ...

• Word Count: 973
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As my friends" brother is in the hospital now because he was hit in the face with a fist full of quarters I am reflecting on how dangerous homophobia can be. ... When the individuals who are victim to this prejudice and racism actually observe these unearned disadvantages take place they see little hope for improvement. ...

• Word Count: 1146
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate