African_American_Discrimination

African American Discrimination All my life I’ve been sheltered from the world, that is, until I entered high school. In my home, elementary school, and in middle school I had the idea that racism and prejudice was over, just because slavery was over. That’s what it was before high school: cut and dry, no slavery, therefore, no racism. I thought that the idea of someone being discriminated against because of the color of his or her skin was, well, I didn’t really think about it. That is until I walked into this school. This school opened my eyes to see that everyone is discriminated against. The problem was I didn’t really know why. All I could think of was African–American people were upset because of their ancestors being school, know, because, really, civil, about, world, way, until, think, study, slavery, rights, racism, people, over, just, i’m, idea, high, discriminated, didn’t, being, assignment, another, against, actually, without, wasn’t, walked, upset, understanding, trying, thought, things