Racism is a wild fire, fed by fear, and hate, sparked by ignorance, and misunderstanding. This was the feeling I got while and after viewing the play "Brown and Black and White all Over", played by Antonio Sacre. Many parts of his play hit and emotional nerve inside me.

Antonio Sacre's play contained passages that had me riding an emotional roller coaster. Sacre, a self proclaimed storyteller had me in a state of indecision, somewhere between laughing at and feeling sorry for the characters of his story. Antonio Sacre's play was put on by his drama class, which consisted of about 5 girls from a school whose average student read at 15% of the national level. Sacre had me laughing at these kids antics and speech. They spoke in broken English and slang saying "Hey man. How do expect me to learn all 'dis man? Huh? So I gotta learn all 'dis words?" This had me and most of the audience laughing. Haha. these kids talked with different speech patterns than most of us. They are funny. HaHaHa. Then it

Another part of Antonio Sacre's play that stood out to my psyche was when Antonio was visiting the conference on Racism in the Californian redwood forest. The group was talking about stereotypes until a person of color says:

"Really", said a white youth, "I got caught with a little bit of pot and got 2 nights."

I was dumbfounded by this exchange. My first thought was; this doesn't happen, it is just exaggeration. My next thought was; what if this was true, and there were really these racial discrepancies. How could two people of similar age that committed a similar offence be punished so differently? The black man gets 730 nights while the white man gets 2! This leaves me stupefied.

" Man, I can't believe the injustices in this world, man. My bro got caught wit a little bit of pot and got 2 years. I just isn't right."

When Antonio spoke of his own childhood there were a few things I could relate to. Of course I cannot relate to them first hand, me being a middle class white youth, but my friend Dwayne Johnson did. He was person of color

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