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of my friends did act this way then I was hurt both because of the gap between

my values and his as well as feeling confused as to when he started acting this

way, or if he had always been racist and I just didn’t notice. I was starting

to wonder if I knew my friends as well as I though or if perhaps we have drifted

in different directions in values and beliefs.

I don’t know what role my thoughts and feelings played in the

altercation between the two groups other than the fact that I thought of helping

my friends. I also felt a great amount of hatred towards the hispanic race.

Looking back I know that was wrong but at the time when my friends and I were in

a fight with them I hated them so much I wanted to kill them. I know I wouldn’t

have if it came down to it, but because of two people I hated their entire race.

I think the fact that I was white and one of my friends was black and

another of my friends was white affected the situation largely. Also to a

degree the fact that two of the other men were hispanic and the amount of hatred

I felt toward them. As for my friend, for a couple of seconds I almost felt

ashamed to be white, because someone of my own race was being prejudiced towards

my Afro-American friend. Although I don’t want to make it seem as if I am

ashamed to be white, at the time I felt as if I had to represent my whole race

in feeling bad towards what happened to my friend Dave and also how my friend

Dan acted.

I think a factor that has not been discussed that was prevalent in this

case was the fact that the three other gentlemen started the altercation and not

us. This made me feel more hostile towards them and the fact that we really had

nothing to do with the fight starting, but yet because of the fact that we were

three caucasians and an Afro-American was different to them. They didn’t like

what they saw so they tried to change it by any means possible.

I think that Dan was perhaps confused and perhaps upset at the same time.

He was struggling internally because two people he knew were involved in a

fight and he had to make a choice between the two as to which one to help. On

the one hand one person he knew was white and in a fight but he didn’t seem like

he needed help. On the other hand, Dave who is African American seemed like he

needed help in a fight but didn’t get any except from me.

Chris was thinking that the other three men had no right to do what they

did and they would have to pay for their actions as well as their words. I

really can’t say what the white man was thinking when he said that because I

don’t know why anyone would do something like that. As for the other two, I

know that they felt the same and got more than they bargained for when we got in

a fight.

I think that the different social groups here create an obvious issue.

The fact that a white and two hispanics were fighting against an African

American and two whites shows that the race was the key factor. This fight

alone was a melting pot of individuals. I think in my mind that the fat that

Dan was white affected his decisions, not in a big way, but in some sort of way.

I don’t really know about the other three, but as for Chris and I, race affected

us in terms of white and hispanic because that’s who we were mad at the most. I

don’t know why this would be the case, but it just was.

I believe that African-American viewing this would have felt the most

strongly. The event they would have sen unfolding in front of them would have

hurt a lot. They would have jumped in to help not only my friend Dave but also

all of us because we were all trying to fight for the same thing out there.

African-American’s also would have been puzzled as to why one white man would

help out a black man but not two. The way events unfolded would have made them

think twice.

In an odd way I feel another thing that would have made people jump in

to help was the fact that a caucasian and an African-American were fighting for

each other . As much as we hate to admit it that is not a scene we see nearly

enough of in this day and age. Something has got to be done about it

immediately.

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