I was startled! Why wouldn't people with green, brown, grey, or any colored eyed people get lollipops, too?

Me being me, I walked up to my teacher's desk and with anger asked, "Why don't people that don't have blue eyes get lollipops?!"

My teacher grinned, "Well, Sara, I just think it will help them concentrate better." I nodded my head, then walked away.

I knew this was wrong, but I decided to put it in the back of my mind and go back to work. Our teacher started showing and telling us thing about civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. It was quite interesting, but a little distracting when I was looking at all the blue-eyed kids whoo had lollipops around me.

"Forget about it, FORGET ABOUT IT!" I said to myself.

We all got tested after that. I started circling the multiple choice answers like there was no tomorrow. I knew all of these answers -- I knew I would get 100%! In fact, I was the first one finished. I was so confident!

Once everyone was finished, we all corrected the pages. I got three wrong.

"Man, what I would do to go back and think about that answer..." I mumbled.

My teacher was cheerful as we graded. "Well, you know what? Everyone with blue eyes just scratch out your grade. Give yourself 100, no matter how many you got wrong!" she said.

This was nonsense!!! It had me all ready to go to my principal to tell him what incredible discrimination was going on. I gave a dirty look to my teacher as she finished talking.

"Now, everyone that has eyes that aren't blue might have felt a little, discriminated, yes? I am not one bit racist to any of you -- I just used this way of favoring some of you for no good reason as an example to show you what it was like for African-Americans many years ago. Those of you with non-blue eyes were Colored today."

That test didn't count, it turned out -- it was just part of the learning experience. And everyone without blue eyes got a lollipop at the end of class.

Thankful for what I have :-)
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