Race and Ethnicity
In all my twenty years as a black male in the United States of America, I can only recalltwo instances where I felt I was wronged because of my race. Though both are just part of my history now, they still make me sick to my stomach when I think about them. The first one I recall was when my family and I traveled to Orlando, Florida to celebrate my high school graduation in June of 2000. I was enjoying myself at first but it all went down the toilet one day when we decided to spend the day in one of the various We left our hotel early one morning to have breakfast before we visited Universal Studios. We went to this nice restaurant, whose name I can't recall, maybe it was Racism Chicken and Waffles, and we noticed we were likely the only black family there. Not only that but it seemed that everybody there seem to notice as well because we were getting some very interesting looks. I'm pretty use to fielding some weird looks since I was a awkward and sometimes clumsy teen, but that's not why some were staring, I had done nothing awkward or clumsy, and that made the hair on my arms stand up. Then after we were seated a waitress took our orders. She tried to sell us some fake warmth b
Then came part of the day were we actually were inside the amusement park, Universal recall two times when my race seemed to cause a conflict, I hear stories from peers that small a skin color can inspire people to act ignorant to one another. Though I can only Every time that I think about race and how it makes people act when they interact with her roll her eyes a few times. Though she wasn't saying it verbally, she was more than ranting now so I will just close this by saying that I hope the human race envolves and
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