Letter of Introduction

My racial identity is an African American male. The struggles I have gone through was when I was in elementary school I had to go to a different school because we had move to the county and I was use to the city schools. It was hard for me because I had made to say bye to all my friends I made at Lexington elementary and the hardest part I had to say bye to my girl friend. When I went to Kirkwood elementary it was different to me because I had to get used to the mixed crowed of kids and when I was back at Lexington it was just black kids there. Some of the kids would talk about me because there reading levels where higher then mine that just motivated me to try even hard and at Lexington we didn’t have to do that so I was not ready for that type of test. So it took some time to blend in with the other kid and to make some new friends but I think I needed that because it made my step out of my comfort zone. It made me a better person and opened me up to try different things and look at me now. My experiences are similar to Rodriguez because we both experienced different being in a school where there are like only ten percent of the school kids had the same racial identity as me. We both had to deal with kids making fun of us because we were different.