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Remaining Neutral Short Story

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Theme: Remaining neutral is siding with the oppressor not the oppressed
The icy winter wind tousled my tightly coiled curls as I sat on the tattered and unsheltered train platform; the only platform I was not deemed a threat. The women hold their heads low, the men hold theirs even lower, afraid to make any movement that the people situated on the platform across the train tracks may perceive as offensive. I stare in contempt, but I wouldn’t dare cross the train tracks to reach the sheltered platform for the privileged. My thick brown curls, as wild as the wind and my coloured skin are not permitted in the same vicinity as those people; white people.
As I contemplate why we are condemned to sit in the winter weather, a young exhausted …show more content…

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