I Have Never Experienced Discrimination

I am a minority myself being from an East Indian household, I was born in Canada. I have been through much discrimination growing up in a middle class; English speaking, white neighbourhood, but more then me, my parents have had it much harder. My First memory or discrimination is when I was six years old and my dad had taken me and my siblings swimming at a public swimming pool where two white

Racially offensive characters discriminate against others based on their race. In the novel, Ma discriminates against Dukes, who wished to marry Sourdi, because he is in poverty, she prefers Sourdi being married to a rich man. Another offensive character is Nea, who due to her naivety and her tender age, talks badly about men who wish to get married to her sister. I can relate to these situations since they are common in the society today. Siblings having conflicts of interest and discrimination based on financial capabilities is common, proving money to be the source of

This past summer, our Marist Varsity team worked the basketball camp. I coached a group of six to ten year old girls. One girl was much better at basketball than the rest of the girls, and the other girls started to be mean to her and her mean to them. This then lead to the girls not working well together on the court. I decided to leave my coaches out of it, and handle it on my own. After one of my team's games, I pulled all of the girls aside to talk to them. I told them that they need to be nice to each other because it affects their game play too. I told them that everyone was there to get better at basketball and that each of them are at a different point in their skill levels. I went on to say that I was not going to involve any adults

Obviously, I have never gone through anything close to what the aforementioned have, but I have endured racism personally. In a high school junior varsity basketball game my sophomore year, our team traveled to a nearby high school. At the very end of the game (it was a blowout in our favor, and there was not much of a crowd), I was dribbling near the opposing team's bench when all of a sudden, one of their players on the bench yelled, "Go home, you fucking Jew!" I couldn't believe it. I just stopped playing and stared at him, while my teammates waited for me to do something with the ball. I had never heard anything like that directed at me before.

A personal experience that deals with discrimination, was last year at my old high school during a Christmas show. My best friend was auditioning for the role of Mary until she was told she cannot play the role of Mary because of her skin complexion. She was told that she would confuse the younger kids because Mary was white; which is not a proven fact. It is very sad and disturbing that even now in 2017, people are still being discriminated

In our society, we are able to witness how our prejudices can affect the way people live. At times, there are people who come forward and confront the injustice in our lives and try helping the victims. However, there are numerous occasions were we fail to confront the prejudice, and take no notice of the consequences that may result; this is evident in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird where the numerous prejudices and injustices heaped upon various characters brings the society itself to moral conflict. We witness first hand how failing to confront various types of prejudices may result large repercussions.

The students were girls from the 8th grade class, and each was a star-player. Kayla was the tallest. Rachel was the fastest. Amber was the fiercest. Each wanted that center spot. There’s more than one forward in basketball, there’s more than one guard, but there’s only one center.

‘’Hey Jibril are you ready’’ I responded with a smirk and said of course these kids won’t know what is coming. The small building held several grades and had one of the worst courts in town. When the coach blew the whistle a Tall skinny man who had strong arms and stern face led the tryouts and the gym erupted into squeals of shoes on hardwood and the crack of the rim every time a shot was taken. The practice was held in a small gym, It was tattooed with baby pictures of kids performing gym class activities. practice was intense and precise coach analyzing every move. By the end of practice the court filled with sweat and the tryouts were over. Coach was borrowed in the corner with a stern face ,announcing the team. The first person was called and bolted out the room in Anger showed in his face and I was nervous about my fate.

I have witnessed several prejudice or stereotype instances recently in my life, whether it be a personal accusation or done to a friend. The most prevalent being sexism in a workplace environment. One event in particular was when I worked as a waitress at a golf course restaurant in Connecticut. The owner of the establishment said lowkey offensive comments in regards to the female staff. When I was putting away dishes in the kitchen, the owner would say “a girl should have your job in the kitchen and you should be out on the course” to our cook. In addition to comments such as the previous one, the owner would never let any of the female employees work as the bartender (which was the best paying job at the restaurant). He would always hire

It was time,school was starting all everyone was talking about was basketball I was sitting

My experience of prejudice occurred last summer when my friends and I decided to go to McDonalds. Two of the people I was with were African-American and when they went up to the order, the people at the till denied them service. I was in shock from the hostility the employees projected towards my friends. We left knowing the wrongness of their accusations and racism. Sad thing was, was that my friends were accustomed to this behavior while I never knew that prejudice and discrimination occurs so often, and at that magnitude.

Discrimination can happen to anyone. I have personally experienced it before in the past. I walked into a MAC cosmetics store determined and ready to buy products. The employees there did not greet me and basically ignored me. I tried asking for help several times and all I got in return was their nasty attitudes. Being a teenager in high-end make up store, they probably thought I was not going to spend

There are many types of discrimination. There’s gender, color, age, religion, height and so much more. “Age, caste, disability, employment, language, nationality, race or ethnicity, region, religious beliefs, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, drug usage, othering (When someone is excluded), reverse discrimiantion, legislation, theories, labeling theory, game theory, sate vs. free market, and state discrimination.” -en.wikipedia.org

Since the very beginning there has been discrimination, corruption, and over all rebellion. People have always fought for their beliefs, one way or another. A widely-spread argument now is the question if gay marriage should become legal. This question has been becoming more public throughout the years. People have had conflicting thoughts about this topic whether gays should be allowed to marry or not. On June 26th, 2015, gay marriage was ruled to have rights that would be protected by the US Constitution commitments of liberty and equality. Since then, gay marriage was legalized in all states, however, is still and controversial issue because people believe that same-sex couples should not have the same rights as opposite-sex couples.

One rainy night in November, I arrived to the church gym for my first basketball practice of the season. As I walked in the doors creaked and you could smell the gym floor. As I already heard the basketballs hitting the ground, bouncing up and down. My friends Brittany and Destiny walked in right behind me through the door. That was when we realized we were the only girls surrounded by all guys. As practice came to a start we began to run, it felt like we were never going to stop. Up and down the court as we ran suicides, you could hear the squeaking of shoes as we went from the next line back and then on to the next. Before we started scrimmaging, the two captains were boys. Brittany, Destiny, and I stood in amazement as we were the last three standing there. You could see by their expressions they didn’t want any of us on either team.