Black and white with a splash of color.

This is the title for my Beeson assignment.

you know i started this project out wiht an attitude of

why are we doing this?

we talk about this every year!

 what more could we possibly learn?

now let me tell you.

I saw through the eyes of a stranger.

I saw from a different prspective the whole week.

I saw what people really thought.

How we actually act.

and how i have acted many times before thinking it was alright when it wasn't.

It's amazing to me how self conscious you feel

when you stand out.

I don't know how anyone else feels but for me

 i felt as though i might pass out from embarrassment.

cry in the bathroom during lunch

(not because of people but because of the way i felt about myself.)

I felt alone.

Dark and scared.

bright in a dull world.

seeing for the first time what it feels like to be an outcast.

judged by what?

Appearance.

Looks.

style.

things that shouldn't matter but do anyways.

how would it feel to be like that every day of your life.

judged by your skin color.

Alone because of race.

teased because people thought wrong for a split moment.

killed because it was legal.

abused.

arrested.

interrogated.

no rights.

and the list goess on and on.

and here's the one question that counts.

Why?

Who started all of this?

Why were blacks persecuted?

Color doesn't matter.

we know that now.

but why didn't we know back then?

who cares where we're from.

we are ALL people.

we all have feeling.

we all have rights.

and we all deserve an answer.

what made "whites" so "superior"?

Skin color?

when you look back and see what america was

 you should be ashamed...

i know i am.

I am mortified by the way people acted and were treated.

We read books like Black Like me  to show us how we were

and so we don't make the same mistakes.

but even if we're not "racist" people are still bullies.

People think they are better then others.

I don't know why but they do.

at a point and time in all of ou lives we are

always comparing to see who's better.

better looking.

richer.

prettier.

smarter.

more athletic.

craftier.

ect.

but why?

why do we compare ourselve when we know we are not perfect

 and niether are the people we compare ourselves to.

so why try to be someone we are not.

i am not saying everyone does that.

I am just saying that simply we compare.

just remember this

"what lies behind you and what lies in fromt of you,

pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

Ralph waldo emerson.

Sincerely,

Bringing brightness.