In my eight grade at Howard M Phifer Middle School, I witnessed numerous amounts of prejudice and racism. Not saying names about certain specific people but this said designated person is a male. I've known this guy since about the 2nd or 3rd grade so I know about his school life well enough to be able to tell this story. To my knowledge, I feel he grew up, at school, with a pleasant life as a young boy. He wasn't really known to be one of the coolest guys, but I guess he could be considered a good kid. As the years progressed, we already hit the fourth grade at Roosevelt Elementary School. School started off as a new-sprung and fresh start for his little life. Even though there was more to come in her new days, there was probably more that he would encounter that he would have ever expected. .
It kills me to still think about this, but older people in the 6th grade had already been introduced to smoking and drinking. This once pleasant boy had a meeting with his new coming future. As known to this day adolescent minds should not come to face with such horrors. He started to hang out with the older more mature kids a mature kids, how had better experience with the subject, which had caused his young, innocent mind to be penetrated beyond its boundaries to a new step in his life. While, the months and years proceeded by in a normal fashion his way of life confronted a huge u-turn. For instance, he started to dress in a gothic manner of wearing all dark and gloomy colors as if you changed into a totally different person. This came to conclude with major prejudices from our fellow classmates. I know how people thought in 5th and 6th grade and to people in that degree of age that was thought to be really weird. Kids just thought that because he wears constant black and glum colors that he was scary and dumb. I don't know what anyone else thinks, but saying someone is scary, mean, weird, and just not cool or normal just because the way the dress I think that leans toward being prejudice.
