8th Grader Writes A Letter About His Racist Experiences In School
8th Grader Writes Heartbreaking Letter About His Racist Experiences In School
Za’Khari Waddy is an honors student and star of his football team at Tabb Middle School in Yorktown, VA. The 13-year old shouldn’t have a care in the world, except he’s wondering when his principal will address the racism he’s continuing to endure from his classmates.
The young man recently wrote a letter that’s making national headlines. “Yesterday on the football bus coming from our football game a kid started saying racist things to me. He then started saying he does not like blacks and he told me 200 years ago my ancestors hung from a tree and after he said that I should I hang from a tree” the heartbreaking letter read.
8th Grader Writes Heartbreaking Letter About His Racist Experiences In School was originally published on hellobeautiful.com