Personal Essay: Prejudice -- Personal Narrative

I. BACKGROUNDThe location was a moderate to coarse size urban center near the east coast ofMassachusetts. The city has a mix of both races and is diverse in its racialdistri bution. It is a city where most of the flock are middle class workingfolks. eon it is a moderate size city, it has few city problems such ashomelessness, poverty and violence.The year was 1992 and it was the summertime. It was very hot and humidat round 1130 at wickedness and I was in a car driving around looking for any(prenominal)thingto do. It was a boring Tuesday night so I decided to go to a big film arcadehangout called Funworld. There is a number of video games as well as youngpeople. The establishment is a large grammatical construction with a large parking lot.I was with third different people in the parking lot when we were approachedby a group of three new(prenominal) gentlemen. I myself am a tweed push-down storageent nether 21years of age. Two of the people I was with were upperclass c aucasian anthropoids in additionunder the age of 21. The last person was also under 21 and male, but he wasAfrican-American. One of the caucasians was a close friend and other was anacquaintance. The African-American was also a friend of mine. Of the threegentlemen that approached us, two were Hispanic males that appeared to be over21 and the other was a caucasian male that appeared over 21, although I couldntbe sure. Although I didnt want to make both judgements around them, they lookedas if they were poorly dressed and over 21. So I deduced that they were in agang or they were drug dealers, high prepare dropouts, etc..II.ACTIONAt first it appeared as if both groups would just top out by each otherunnoticed but the caucasian male in the other group made a racist stimulant aboutmy African-American friend. He said Look at those vague dudes walking with that bonk spade. My African-American Dave turned around suddenly and said Whatthe fuck did you say? The caucasian male retor ted None of your fuckingbusiness dick At this point both groups approached each other and then myfriend Dave said You wanna go, in response the other kid said Lets go andshoved him in the chest. The other two of the caucasian males friends alternateedon top of Dave and then we all kind of got into a fight. We were more often than not justpushing and shoving each other at first.After about a minute of pushing... ...his fightalone was a melting pot of individuals. I think in my mind that the fat thatDan was snow-white affected his decisions, not in a big way of life, but in some sort of way.I dont really know about the other three, but as for Chris and I, race affectedus in terms of white and hispanic because thats who we were mad at the most. Idont know why this would be the case, but it just was.I believe that African-American viewing this would nurture felt the moststrongly. The event they would feature sen unfolding in presence of them would havehurt a lot. They would hav e jumped in to alleviate not only my friend Dave but alsoall of us because we were all trying to fight for the same thing out there.African-Americans also would have been puzzled as to why one white man wouldhelp out a black man but not two. The way events unfolded would have made themthink twice.In an odd way I feel another thing that would have made people jump into help was the fact that a caucasian and an African-American were flake foreach other . As much as we hate to appropriate it that is not a scene we see nearlyenough of in this day and age. Something has got to be done about itimmediately.