white vs black

I make just little over minimum wage right now, and love my job, however I Don’t have insurance, I don’t always have enough money for the things I need such as food. I make my pennies stretch. So one day I decided to check out getting state assistance just temporarily till I got my finances in order. Maybe a month or two.

Okay one day in class I was having a discussion with my "little table group" and I was making a joke. I go to a county school and so I go to school with 90% white people, and the other 10% is blacks, Hispanic, and other races. So I was making a joke which I usually do.

The Inner Hopings of Hopeful Teenager

Just because I am white and come from a small farming community somewhere in the depths of Zimbabwe everyone assumes that I am a racist. I moved to a first world country where a majority of the people are white... and ignorant. The first few months here I had questions like, "How come you're not black?" and "Did you own slaves?" Not only were these questions hurtful but they were also extremely hypocritical coming from the citizens of a country that is infamous for wiping out and entire population of indigenous people within the space of a year.

 How would you feel if you had done NOTHING wrong but others saw YOU as a TARGET?
The Jena 6 know exactly how this feels. The following is an article by By Tom Mangold, Louisiana of. BBC News