Racism is Real A. M

In my community, we always get stereotyped. We get criticized for how we look, but then they want to look like us. Can't go to the store without being followed or accused; so crazy because some people say racism is gone.

If racism is gone, then why are black people getting killed? Like Breonna, George Floyd and Daunte Wright— the list goes on and on.

Black people. You can tell someone who isn't black that racism is real, and they say it is just a coincidence. How? Because it keeps happening again and again. I don't call that a coincidence. I call that murder.

A. M., Grade 8 Roseville Out of School Time, Roseville Teaching Artist: Kashimana Ahua