Personal Narrative: My Experience Of Living In Hazardville

I cannot recall ever seeing minorities living in Hazardville other than one street that was off of mine. I lived on a street that was historical and had huge houses that were built in the early 1900’s, and the state representative lived on my street as well. I lived in a huge house that was over a hundred years old that at the time that I took for granted as a dumb kid that did not know how good I had it. The street off my street had smaller houses that were not as old as the houses on my street, and the street lead into a lumber yard at the end of the street. That street had some of the meanest kids I have ever met, and a few of the kids I met were black and also white. That street was like a street from T-ville that had lower income
My high school also started having suicide issues and deaths over time. I personally went through a lot of hardships in my freshman year and dealt with bullying that made school hard to go too at times. In my tenths grade year the school started an all-day assembly called “Words Hurt.” The whole tenth grade class spent the majority of the day in the auditorium, and then we would divide into classrooms for group discussions. During the assembly videos of hate speech, and images from the holocaust were shown. In the back ground of my schooling in my town, the holocaust is a huge topic that is covered in middle and high school, and was taken very seriously. The assembly also had students that were on stage that told us their stories of being bullied, and their troubling home lives. Some of the kids were my friends, and I had no idea they had it so bad. I had one friend that was Muslim and was picked on ever since the 9/11 terrorist attacks happened. He was picked on and blamed for the attacks. I was enraged that he was being picked on over something he never even did or had any ties with. Another friend was on stage talking about all the times she attempted suicide and had trouble with everyday things including bullying. She is one of the smartest girls in school and her story along with others made me