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Okay, so last Thursday I was sitting at my lunch table and one of the guys that sits with me told me that 2 guys in our grade came to school in ICE shirts. To anone who doesn't know what ICE is, its the people who deport people. I thought he might have been just playing a joke on me or something but then I walk into 7th period where I have both of those boys in my class. And I see the shirts. I was fuming but I sat down in my chair in the back of the class. One of my classmates jokingly asked what it meant. One of the guys, let's call him David, answered them. And let me just tell you, he didn't even say Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He said something else completely but I guess that's the only type of guy who would where that shirt, one who doesn't even know what it means. So, since I was so pissed, keep in ,mind I'm typically a quiet person, I stood up and was like "Hey david, do you know what this means?" And I flipped him off, in front of the class. But that didn't make me feel any better. I started shaking uncontrollably and was having an anxiety attack so I grabbed my stuff and went up to the teacher and told him I had to leave due to being extremely uncomfortable. According to my friend, as soon as I left my teacher went off on them. Now I havent cried in school since the 4rd grade and I'm now in 10th but at that moment I was about ready to break down. I ended up spending that period with my most trusted teacher (Mr. Smith I guess), he had a study hall. 9th period rolled around and one of my friends comes to my class to tell me that my 7th period teacher wants to talk to me. So I went to see him. While we were talking, after holding it in for as long as possible, I started bawling. Skip to today, we were in 8th period playing a game in class (I have those 2 in this class too) and David asks who has the username "Jose." The kid answered and then David is like, "well that's like insulting the Spanish language." Needless to say I snapped at him again. And the other guy who wore the shirt, let's call him Robby, laughed and was like "dude she's still upset about the shirts" I didn't respond. I just sort of shook my head and scoffed. Of course I was pissed. He can't call someone out for "offending the Spanish language" (which the guy wasn't. People always mispronounce his name as Jose and that's why he had it as his user) but wear shirts that support the part of the government that separates families and kills just because someone doesn't have papers. I even had to speak to the principle because Mr. Smith could see how upset I was about this. The principle said he would talk to David and Robby because I shouldn't feel uncomfortable in school or whatever. But I talked to the principle on FRIDAY. So either he didn't talk to the boys or they think a trip to the principle's office is just a joke.
In case you haven't figured it out yet, I am Latina. I have a family of immigrants. And although none of them may be illegal that doesn't mean its okay to wear a shirt like that around me. They know my heritage, I've done countless reports and projects of my country. And to show up to school wearing that and not thinking that I'd be upset or thinking it'd be funny to get a reaction out of me is outright disgusting and shameful.
I know that it's the end of the school year but I can't just watch as they make fun of something like that. They thought it was a joke! Me crying is not a joke, especially since it hasn't happened in public for 6 years. And I know they saw me crying because they were in the sane room as me while the teacher and I were talking and were snickering about it in the corner.
I tried telling my dad about it because I thought he might understand why I was upset but he was just like "there's always going to be people like that in the world." He was basically telling me to suck it up and deal. Its his parents and his history that I'm defending and he's telling me not to worry about it because "stuff like that is always going to happen."
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your dad is right. there are a lot of jackasses in the world. it makes no sense to give the jackasses power over your emotional responses.
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