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Over the course of my life I have been faced with some uncomfortable situations due to the racial diversity of my family. I have seven cousins that are mulatto, two cousins that are Chinese, one aunt who is Japanese, and one of my uncles is engaged to a Korean wo ....

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.... led to a problem I encountered a few years ago during my sophomore year in high school. My high school is predominantly white, with a few Asians, and very few black students. One of the few black students, Kaasa, happened to be in my phy-ed class during the first semester of my sophomore year. The problem was that Mike Hartman was also in the same class. Mike was kind of known to the people in our grade as “Mr. Racism”. He was always quick to come up with a “nigger joke”, or to tell everyone how much better he was than the entire black community. This really ticked me off, and Mike knew it. Ever since the day that I made damn sure Mi ....