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Remember the Champions - Original Writing
"Sit at the back," said the bus driver. He was white; being black I
had to sit at the back. As I was walking down the aisle to the back
seat, I stumbled, and with a loud thump, I fell flat on my face, and
the passengers burst out laughing. I looked back and saw a white
student's leg spread across the aisle. It was my first year in
college, and it had already started like this. I helped myself up and
sat in the back seat. "Don't worry they always do that, just don't pay
any attention to them, and watch yourself, it's dangerous with all
these whites." "Tom Robinson nice to meet you" "Will Houston" I said
shaking hands with Tom. I told how this was my first in America, and
that I was originally from Africa. On the way the whites sitting in
the front kept insulting me and the others sitting at the back. I felt
like going over there and hitting that guy, but Tom held me down. I
then realized that none of us could do anything towards the whites and
what they were saying because they were the majority. I felt really
insulted by what they said; back in Africa none of that would have
happened we were all black and we were all friends.
We finally arrived, the college was huge - I had never seen anything
like it before. It was enormous and it was filled with students, who
were mostly white. School went on normally, expect for the insults I
kept on hearing, and they called me 'nigger' for the first time. I
really felt bad, but I couldn't do anything. School finally ended, and
I went to the bus, this time I looked out for any obstacle in my way
as I was walking to the back seat. When I arrived at my home, my
father greeted me warmly and asked me how my first day was. I didn't
want to worry my dad so I didn't tell him anything, but from the look
choir room. The choir room holds about 100 people and every seat was taken and
... and out of my lungs as I breath, the thunderous beating in my ears is starting to resend. I look around and realize that I have fallen less than halfway to the ground. I am a live, but my job isn't done yet. I pulled my feet together and make two perfect bounds to the ground below.
As I fell, my stomach lurched in a thrilling, heart pounding way. My brain was screaming, demanding that I grab onto something, anything to slow my fall. My body, however, knew exactly what to do.
the rain was pelting down on my head. My car had just broken down in
The next thing I knew, I was awake in a sterile little hospital bed. I tried to sit up, but the pain of my injuries brought me to fall down again.
I stood there thinking for a long time. I saw all the busses come and go. Then in the distance, I saw the bus I had become so familiar with coming back.
As I walked out the doors into the blistering cold air. I saw my mom parked along the sidewalk. Onced I had walked to the car my mom saw the smile on my face. As soon
After checking the luggage I had to go through security. The security took an awfully long time, it was being held up by a guy in a wheel chair or so i was told. When the security check was over, I got my ticket to board the plane. I was put in 18A, aisle seat.
while, being as he was rushing to Cooper Hospital to see my mother. At this
As the kid went into the candy store, the reaction of his face was priceless. Like all kids in a candy store, his eyes livened up and his mouth drooled. It was kind of amusing to watch, but the grandparents loved every second of it. They knew that as the kid grew older, he would go his separate way and would not be as close to them. They wanted to cherish the moment, enjoy every little detail about the boy, and spend as much time with him before he would “leave the nest.”
watched as I was shoved to the back and they took the limelight. But I
My stomach retched, my throat dry, had I got myself into this mess? A distant thud echoed across the cold, hard floor, ricocheting into my ear. Someone was coming.
put me a little at ease. We proceeded to the car and embarked on our
As I was boarding the bus I looked up for a vacant seat. What I saw then