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Personal Narrative: My Experience Of Racism

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Heaved I ever experience racism? How did it make me feel? Yes, I have experience racism. It was not the best feeling ever it made me feel like crap. It’s funny how people make you feel if you’re a different race. I think I will always feel bad when I get judged by who I am and my culture It’s hard being Mexican. Even living in a small community people can be racist everywhere you go there are always going to be racist people. The first time I think I was judged was eleven years old. During winter break I was criticized by my skin and my race. I was criticized three times in one day. The first two times were in a store and the third time was in a park. This all happened in Reno, Nevada. I walked to my aunt’s house because I had decided to spend

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