After reading To Kill A Mockingbird, I got to thinking of prejudice in my lifetime. Then, I got thinking of back in public school. In public school, there was loads of prejudice in the playground. Be it from age, gender, or athletic ability, it was there.
I remember when I was younger and me and my friends would try to play in a certain part of the feild, but the older kids wouldn't let us. I thought that it was the nastiest thing I had ever seen. Then when I would got older, I did the same thing, because they always seemed to be in the way.Is it wrong for me to have done it? I don't think so, because if I didn't do this, I think I might have kicked some of those little kids in the head.
I think sometimes prejudice can save people for either embarassment or physical pain. I know for a fact that if we would have let some of the kids who, not to put them down, sucked at playing soccer or football or whatever we were playing, they probably would have been laughed at, picked on, or even targeted. I remember one time, we let some one that wasn't very good to play, and some one hit him right where the sun don't shine.
I think that in this new school setting known as secondary school, the cafeteria and lunchtime have replaced recess. They're is still prejudice, it's obvious. Look where people sit, the cool kids on one side, losers on the other. Then there's the mennonites, jocks, preps, and lifelong classmates. And don't forget age. So, within the large cliques, there are smaller cliques. We keep getting more divided until we have witled it down to only the people we can tolerate before going berserk.
So, in the end, I believe that without prejudice, there would have been more recess-time boo-boo's from bullying, more feelings being hurt of total embarassment, and more Hulk-tastic explosions of anger.
I remember when I was younger and me and my friends would try to play in a certain part of the feild, but the older kids wouldn't let us. I thought that it was the nastiest thing I had ever seen. Then when I would got older, I did the same thing, because they always seemed to be in the way.Is it wrong for me to have done it? I don't think so, because if I didn't do this, I think I might have kicked some of those little kids in the head.
I think sometimes prejudice can save people for either embarassment or physical pain. I know for a fact that if we would have let some of the kids who, not to put them down, sucked at playing soccer or football or whatever we were playing, they probably would have been laughed at, picked on, or even targeted. I remember one time, we let some one that wasn't very good to play, and some one hit him right where the sun don't shine.
I think that in this new school setting known as secondary school, the cafeteria and lunchtime have replaced recess. They're is still prejudice, it's obvious. Look where people sit, the cool kids on one side, losers on the other. Then there's the mennonites, jocks, preps, and lifelong classmates. And don't forget age. So, within the large cliques, there are smaller cliques. We keep getting more divided until we have witled it down to only the people we can tolerate before going berserk.
So, in the end, I believe that without prejudice, there would have been more recess-time boo-boo's from bullying, more feelings being hurt of total embarassment, and more Hulk-tastic explosions of anger.
a really original take on prejudice, Jordan.
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