The time I was called the N-Word at a High School Football game

Football games are the social gathering of every high school kid with nothing better to do on a friday night. It's a chance to let loose and mess around with the kids you only meet in a classroom. It's a chance to let find out the real side of your fellow peers and not the dead soul less version of themselves in an 8 a.m. class. It's a place of acceptance and comradery. Or so I thought. In Santa Clarita, the majority is that of White community who haven't experienced true diversity and don't know how to properly act around people of color. Being a black teen in this environment has made me become on guard with the job of putting people in check and making them understand when they've said or done something offencive. With that though a challenge is created to see how far they can take it and push me over the edge. This became clear my sophomore year. Standing in the crowded student section at COC, the home field of Hart High, enjoying the game and excanching jokes with my classmates a teammate of mine on the baseball team walked up behind me, and in a joking but highly offensive way, exclaims "we don't want niggers here" and then preceded to push me down in to the row of students I was standing directly above. The biggest problem is that in today's world kids don't know what to say and what not to say even if it is directed as a joke.