Two years ago, I was accepted to attend Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Everything with regard to this university was new to me. It is the world's largest Baptist University, made up of 90 percent whites and 10 percent minorities. This came as a significant worry to me. Never having met anyone of different race or culture all I knew was what I had seen on television and stereotypes I had picked up from my friends. I could literally count the number of whites and blacks I had met up until that point in time on one hand. I felt as if I was going to enter a different wo

To my dismay I found that I wasn't the person who had difficulty accepting where I was. It so happened that it was the other students in the school who felt that I did not belong. My first day staying at the dorms is a day that I would never forget as long as I live. It was a day that changed my opinion of every race but mine. My roommate happened to be a Hispanic who didn't know a word of Spanish but that didn't seem to matter if he did or didn't. My dorm room was a small white box with a sink a closet and a dry erase board on the outside of the door. I remember coming back to my room from a welcome session feeling I had made the right decision on what school to attend, only to find on my door a written message saying "Go home Mexicans". I was appalled by what I saw, the next thing I know I had began knocking on the doors of every room in my hall demanding that someone tell me who had written that message that had outraged me so. Out the corner of my eye I saw a guy with a big smile on his face that happened to be white my judgment being clouded by anger I immediately swun

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