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!what!

By: Deborah M.
South Dakota, Age 13


If I was in the shoes of these inventors I'd feel...Fustrated. Awkward. Most of all tired. I'd feel this way 'cause if i was the only one of my race I'd be mistreated by some people. I'd also feel this way 'cause I had to prove myself to others to show we are all different but somehow alike. In ways we are not different and in ways we are all the same. If these features of us did not show we all look like a gray blob. We'd know if the person next to us was male or female. We'd not know a cat from a hippo or a canary from a croc. Black people and white peole or people that blue, yellow green, red,and evenpurple need to under stand that it doesn't matter what color skin you have but the kindness of your heart, the real you is what matters.



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