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there's an innocence icons a childhood it's something that our parents try the hardest to protect or young we see the world in Wonder and more importantly see people simply as people it doesn't matter what central Playmate has different color hair skin or eyes or main concern is who's going to be in it or who will be Marco run and play together without a care in the world of prejudice what does Kai mean it means being kind and nice when you feel someone sitting it was so painful Annette Knight do you think it is okay to send me word for people that would be perfect for me now because that's really mean even if they're not from this country then something happens and all of a sudden the Golden Rule also. Reminds suddenly worried that we knew better than to use as children flying apart Masterpiece forgetting or disregarding the harm that they can do us are guilty of this so-called armless dancer sometimes even go as far as rationalizing the language with justifications like what's the harm if I'm only joking right play joking around or being Black Mirror. Constant use our words hold an immense power to greatly impact those around us was there ever a time that I have been called a derogatory word and how'd you feel first grade right before Thanksgiving break and I got hit by a car I'm right in and so when my dad took me while I got picked up by an ambulance while I was trying to you don't get get help and argue no help a conversation the background overhearing how annoyed and how angry what about those Mexicans who come to this country and never learn English and never know I can't even help their kids when they're in the emergency room first came out back in so that middle school I share to a small group of friends and they were super supportive but the new did spread and because his new spread one day I open my locker find notes instead of baggett's burn in  and God don't want you here and at that moment because of that I starting to hate myself a lot and I start to hate whoever got out there that sent that message to me in elementary school I had to scoop and friends and we were playing on the Oliver Mercy in Spanish because of the primarily attic school and they were all speaking Spanish and I heard the n-word they were talking about me and I had asked them about me and my friends and I think kind of just escalated from there and then word got around the school that I was upset over something I'm very expressive about my sexuality so some people she's like the way that somebody said it just environment talk too much about it or maybe I should show it to dented how I identify myself and just this whole question like who am I really like the biggest thing about music it's a very demoralizing a child give him a little better but I still I felt the same way inside angry I guess I know I know who I am now so we'll see about me number still hurts my back you ever sucked into Santa for someone with crippled words are being used yes of course I've stepped in when I hear soon using derogatory language in class or in the hallway I usually step in and say something about it it's not just that words are like using gay or retard is dragon raid worried or using the n-word at people it's not just that those words are offensive to some people might hurt their feelings these words have a history of your saying these words like you're saying that for lesser why see it happening classroom school I know I have to step in music it's not just at the fence if it's wrong for people to be associated with that is free of hate so I try to is my voice in the plot for my house as an educator an adult and as a human just to at least raise awareness for teaching kindness go to protest have been to the Pasty women protest and I've been to parades and three different cities and justice for people who get they perform a studied under Elie Wiesel few times and what is famous things the saying that you can't be neutral you have to take sides in the reason for that is when you see people being oppressed or people being hurt by others if you ignore it you're as bad as the oppressor so in any case where you see that happening you have to be an upstander you have to stand in

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