An Avoidable Fight?
There have been many incidents in my life that I felt were needless and the world would have been better off without them happening. One of these events occurred at my old high school. The student population was all white. However within the las 16116i88q t three years black students have been going to that particular high school. There were exactly two black students when the incident occurred. I guess their arrival to the school did not sit well with many of the other students.
The day of the incident started normally. In the morning the announcements played and we went to homeroom. It wasn't until around lunch hour when things started going wrong. Some of the students were playing basketball in the gym. A lot of heckling and trash talking occurred while the blacks were playing from the onlookers. Then one of the black students fouled one of the whites, on accident. The white student took the incident way too far. He started throwing punches and kicks at the black student. The black student defended himself vigilantly until more white students started in on the fight. Across the gym another black student was having a fight picked with him. This however was for something totally different. Some of the students thought that the original fight was over race and tried to beat up the other black student in the gym. The final count for the fight was about seven white students to one black. Both of the black students were not seriously injured and the white students involved were suspended.
To this day I am not sure why this happened but I know that it could have been avoided. Maybe through awareness or a proper introduction would have started the relationships better between the students.
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