The Middle Journey

Tyrese Adams is an African male teenager that is 14 years old. He lives in a primarily white neighborhood and he never experienced any type of racism until he started high school the next year. On his first day of school a lot of the kids there were staring at him, which made him uncomfortable. He hurried to his class and when he sat down the kid sitting next to him that he didn’t belong in this school. Tyrese was mad that he told him this, but he wondered why this kid said that to him. When he opened his locker to go home there was a letter there that said get out of our school N word. Now Tyrese knew why he was looked at when he came to school and why that kid said that to him.

When Tyrese got home he started crying about how he didn’t want to live in this town anymore because there wasn’t anyone that looked like him and he had no friends. Tyrese mom forced him to go to school the next day and the second day was worse than the first one. He was shoved by some kids and they told him straight to his face that things were going to get worse for him. Tyrese knew this was all he was going to take and he fought back by creating posters saying “Skin color doesn’t lead to ignorance, but the person themeself are the ones that are ignorant.” After creating all these posters and later on talking to the principal about what happened to him, the principal had a meeting with all the students talking about racism and how targeting someone because of their skin color and race is a horrible thing.

The kids that were racist towards Tyrese didn’t get suspended or anything because he told the principal to give them another chance because everyone makes mistakes. After Tyrese completed high school he went to college and did study abroad programs where he met many people from different ethnicities and later on his life he ran for mayor in the little town he lived in his youth and won. He founded programs for kids who couldn’t afford to go to the private schools in the town to go to it, he visited his old high school and talked about racism and how if it was taught to you, you don’t have to follow it because you are your own person, and because of his new programs he was happy to see more color in schools now because when he went to school there was barely any. If you’re reading this remember that no matter your skin color or ethnicity you should respect yourself and others around you, and never let anyone say that you don’t belong somewhere because of it.