"I did not realize I was different until third grade, "said Samuel with a white smile which, I swear, there are more teeth than normal. This young, promising player" Atletico ", lives in a village in the mountains of Madrid since his parents pick him in a Haitian orphanage for fifteen years and six months. The day I discovered that it was "different" do not you forget it "was very funny." After a long school day, Samuel came home excited. At school had held Day against Racism and the teacher explained that "in the world there are people with different skin color: white, black, more brown, less ... but we are all equal." As in this class, there is a child with black skin, but that is the same as the others, if he behaves himself, he is rewarded, if he misbehaves is punished. Do you understand? "He told the teacher and all agreed. Samuel, delighted, he came home saying," You know what, mom, in class we have a black friend? ". Almudena, his mother, smiles and says to remember: "I thought ... to see how you say that this black boy he is!". The mess is resolved smoothly and thanks to the intervention of Peter, the older brother who took him by the hand and led him to his room to see a poster of Michael Jordan ...." is like you, see? and you also will be a NBA star, Samuel, "he said Pedro.
Years passed and basketball, in fact, never attracted the wants of the child that March 1st discovered seven years ago that was" different "to the rest of their siblings and their classmates by the color of their skin, but like them "for everything else." Of course, Samuel acknowledges that he once tried to offend by using the "difference" as an insult. He "goes around" . Although remember "such Chung" gets serious and speaks with a clarity that is scary for a teenager: "People are very ignorant, it seems so absurd to judge someone by the color of their skin than people who make me gives up penalty because you lose many things, "says the boy while displaying a smile and a photo of Jim, his girlfriend, who is also" different "because" he's a nerd who gets Notaz.
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