Personally, I have only encountered one experience where a group of people have clashed, but it wasn’t over territory. The cause wasn't someone moving into the neighborhood either. But it all started when I was in fourth grade and we began studying the civil rights movement in history class. This was the first time my class and I had studied this time period in depth. And out of nowhere, as we learned about the separation and segregation between whites and blacks during that time period, my grade started to follow the pattern. (F.y.i My school wasn’t that diverse and it was predominantly Caucasian, but there was never any separation and we all got along.) At lunch all of me and my friends sat together and all the other Caucasian people sat in another section. And at recess, when we played sports like dodge ball all the African- American people played on one team and all the other people played on the same team. It was a really weird period and eventually teachers caught on and addressed the situation.
That I can say was my first time experiencing separation of races and it is not something I want to go through again. But otherwise the only other clashing of people that I have seen is in movies like "Remember the Titans" and "Freedom Writers".
Wow that's pretty interesting but certainly horrible. Did you realize at that time that your class is following the pattern or later when the teacher(s) caught on?
ReplyDeleteI really didnt realize that it was going on at the time until, but I knew something had changed. So it really wasnt until the teachers brought it to our attention that I noticed what was going on
ReplyDeleteWow, that's really interesting that that actually happened to you in fourth grade. I can imagine that it was awkward to go through that even though you weren't necessarily aware of it. I would think that everyone learning about it would see all the bad things that happened during that time and not want to go through it, but interestingly it actually happened. I wonder how the teachers felt as they were teaching it then saw it happening.
ReplyDeleteBriana I never noticed that at Lincoln? When did the teachers address that? You have such a GOOD memory then. Well I knew we were surrounded by white people...
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