Race & Ethnicity: Childhood

Race & Ethnicity-childhood As I was growing up, I noticed that my brother spent most of his time with the same friend. His friend was dark skinned and I always noticed that. But I began to notice it less and less as he was at our house a lot. He was always funny and nice to me. We even had our own handshake for whenever he would come over. He would talk to me about lacrosse and about my friends and all three of us would play lacrosse outside together. He was always fun to be around and even though he was black, it didn’t matter to me the color of his skin. What mattered to me was that he was a good guy who was nice to his friends little sister which was not easy to come by. He came along with us on several vacations and we treated him like
I was wearing a leg brace for several month. I was on crutches because I couldn’t walk on that foot. I needed help doing many things I didn’t need help doing before my surgery. I needed help going up the stairs. The surgery was planned a while ago but it was a hard surgery and I knew that I would need a good amount of time to recover. I decided to do it during the summer so that it wouldn’t interfere with school. When I got the surgery, my foot slowly healed as school rolled around but wasn’t completely healed and I was still told to try to stay off my foot as much as possible although my brace was off. Since my leg hadn’t fully healed, I couldn’t join the swim team freshman year.
This gave me a glimpse into what having a physical disability is like, even for a short period of time. Because of my temporary disability, I was restricted from everyday activities. I was upset that I had to miss out on the swim team that year. A couple of my friends were doing swimming but because I was physically restricted, I could not swim. That led me to be behind one year on the swim team and negatively impacted my swimming career. Having a physical disability can really restrict you from what you want to
The court said that school overrides religious obligations. The court believes this is disrespecting school rules and wants to fine the family for pulling their kids out of swimming after the court refused to do anything about it. I disagree with the court. My take away from this is, viewing religion in a different way. I didn’t think it was still an issue. I also never thought that religion could overrule something like school, however, in this case I do believe that it was that parents’ rights to restrict their child due to religion. It made me see religion in a whole new way and how loyal some people are to their religion. I believe that they should not have to compromise that.

SES- adolescence
In middle school, I met a girl who I became great friends with. We were bestfriends for a long time. I noticed that when she came to school she came in poor clothing. Her shirts were ripped and she wore flip flops often even though it wasn’t summer anymore. When I came over to her house for the first time, it was a small house that was crammed with lots of things. There were only three bedrooms and they were all together the size of what one bedroom with more space and furniture was. When my shoes began to get too small, my mom would pack a bag for me to bring to my friend because her feet were always a size smaller than mine.