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I personally am not prejudice, however there are many that are. During my growing up (elementary, high school, etc.) I have found that there are many people that will react to you according to the color of your skin. Many do not like associating with anyone that are not like them. People that are like this should be "kicked in the head" a few times because it isn't right to think like that.
I didn't grow up in any large cities, so many can say that I haven't grown up to know others. People who say this, I do not respect their opinions because they don't know me if they say that. I treat everyone the same and doing so I see certain characteristics that come up when I do. You can tell when a person has a prejudice about you because you can sense a bit of a chill in the air, and the person will watch you very carefully. I personally have had a security guard follow me around a store in the Valley before just because I had a cell-phone in the inside pocket of my jacket, T-shirt and jeans on, and shoes (in the middle of winter). I can understand the thought of a person in summer gear in the middle of winter, however I saw many others in the same type of outfit as myself, less the cell-phone. I find it interesting the way people look at a person with a cell-phone, as if they were breaking the law just by having one with them.
During my time in the city I have noticed a completely different type of people. It seems that everyone that you meet more than once is looking for you to do something wrong so that they can feel better about themselves. There are many people that feel that they can only feel good about themselves only when someone else has done something bad, or someone has fallen due to the person. Many bullies come to mind in this. Every bully has a form of prejudice that they are letting others see, may it be physical or mental the bully doesn't care.
There are also those that don't care about the rules of any given business. May it be having one person come in at a time, and no more than that one until that one leaves; or it could be having no book-bags in the store at any time. Many people will say that it is prejudice for a company to set these rules, however these same people will be the ones that the rules were put into place in the first place. A good example would be on Sunday night at the Superline Fuels - Barrington St. on Sunday Night (April 14/02). One child got buzzed into the store and 4-5 went in. They took a fire extinguisher and sprayed it towards the cashier, stole some bars & chips, and sprayed everything else in the store, the cashier got out of way but everything in the store was destroyed, the store had to get rid of everything in the store because of the extinguisher's chemical and it took a good 2 days to do that. That incident will just enforce the need for only one person allowed inside at a time. Even though that is a bad area, something like that should never happen especially when everyone in the community wants to be treated the same as everyone else is in the city. This is also a good example of why the Juvenal Act should be changed for those that are just hiding behind it so that they don't get arrested and put away for their criminal acts.
Many feel that a bad area of a city (in any area) will never change. Those who live there would like it to change, however those who don't live there won't help put the effort to help it change. There are also many that enjoy causing havoc and will do anything to make sure a bad area stays bad, or else they would have no power any more. Some live in fear of others, and the rest will not turn anyone in because they are family. In many eyes there should be a limit between protecting family vs. protecting a criminal, however in the "real world" there is no such limit. No matter the age of the person being protected, his/her family will protect them from the law. The Juvenal Act may protect them now, however if people don't stop allowing those who do the crime at a young age to not be caught, that person at the young age will never learn to stop it and have a chance to become worse when they get older. When the person gets older, they will still think that they can get away with anything because their family will protect them. This has to stop. The only way to have an area get better is to stop what has caused the area to get bad in the first place. The longer an area is feared (considered a bad area) the more of a chance that prejudice will stay in the mind of people.
It is my opinion that anyone that is prejudice should be arrested on the spot and forced to not think that way, however there is no current legal way to do that. The sooner we can get rid of prejudice, the sooner we can look forward into having a peaceful world. If we can't solve the differences in our backyard, how on earth are we to expect to have terrorism disappear?
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