Skateboarders Persuasive Essay

Skateboarders have been the butt in many of society’s jokes. Society has put skateboarders into the category of being the most agitators there are about in life. Most people look down on skateboarders because they are different. As a skateboarder I go through the peer-pressure of society everyday. We are dealt with the burden of being society's losers. In school, people bully you, just because you are different. Students at school who participate in organized sports bully skateboarders because we skateboard. If in an event there are more than one skateboarder in the school, we will talk about the latest professionals that have achieved a new sponsor. If a jock hears us, they will harass us about it's just a bunch of crap. Well skateboarders don’t always talk about pointless sports now do we.

Bicycles are not seen in that way. If we skate anywhere but the skatepark we are seen as violators of the law. If any skateboarder skateboards in a basketball court, the players want to beat us up. They must have the right to. Wrong. The conflict here is if someone sits in the skatepark and using it for other reasons than it was built, it is viewed as sadistic and obscene. We must have no right to tell those people to get out. Celebrities have picked up skateboarding fast, and take it as they are pro, but they are not. If a skateboarder who skates for fun calls someone like Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus a poser or scandalous, we are called posers because of the screwed up society. Justin Bieber, before he was deported, was a Pop Culture artist, that took on skateboarding as a crutch. He makes skateboarding look cool. That's a recurring problem in the skateboarding industry. Skateboarding may be for anyone but, if you do it because of society, you are a