Racism at School

In school I have noticed many racial controversies. As I walk down the hallways of Mountain View I see groups of Mexicans associating just with each other; when ever I walk past them I feel uncomfortable and a little scared. Why do I feel this way? And how can we change these racial thoughts? It is hard to become friends with people who speak a different language and live a very different life than you. I think that I feel so uncomfortable around them is because we are so different and don’t understand each other and are too afraid to associate each other. Just today I was eating lunch at this table in the commons with my friend, Sarah, when all of a sudden all these Mexican girls came and sat at our table. It was weird for me, it felt really awkward. At that point I realized, “how can I get along with them when I feel so uncomfortable around them?” As I still sat there a white girl I knew from choir came and sat with the Mexican’s. It amazed me that she was friends with all of these Mexican’s who speak Spanish to each other and she doesn’t feel awkward at all. You might think, "Oh your a racist," I'm not one of those appalling, stay away from me or I’ll kill you racists I just have prejudice thoughts at times. It will take time to get these thoughts out of my head, but I've decided the only way to not feel this way is to become friends with them. When my brother, Kevin, was in High School he was very prejudice, saying racist jokes and rude things about Mexican’s. But then in his senior year he became friends with Mexicans and it totally changed his racial standards around Mexicans. I feel that I can try to do the same thing. My brother and that girl helped me to see and gave me hope that I can be friends with anyone black, white, and/or Mexican, I just have to try to talk to them and to be nicer to them.