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Madi Moser
25 October 2007
Professor Flynn

Every high school has their cliques, some more established and advanced than others, and each of these exclusive groups will have a certain image to uphold. Based on that image people will decide whether they want to save them or send them out to sea. No matter how many cliques and groups there are, they all have something in common: they are matched with a polar opposite.
While Hannibal High had the Saints and the Roughnecks, my high school had the Blacks and the Whites, as racist as that may be. Battery Creek High School was mostly black with Caucasian coming a close second. By my sophomore year, the majority of the administration was African American, including hall monitors. The Black kids would run around the school yelling and screaming about one thing or another, start fights, and threaten teachers. However, like the Saints, they would be looked over, and the administration would forget about which fight they caused and go on to a White truancy case.
Whereas the Black kids were looked over, the White kids were caught. They did the same things as the Blacks---smoked pot in the woods, skipped class, fought—but as soon as they were found, they were sent to the principal’s office. A good amount of my friends were expelled, suspended, or held back because they were thought of as delinquents while the Blacks were thought of as “trying to reach out.” Apparently, all black people come from troubled homes—I was not aware of this.
There was a fight I myself was involved in my senior year. Food and drink were thrown constantly at lunch, so we thought nothing of it until a group of black freshman girls, trying to prove their (lack of) rank within the school, came up to us and began to run their mouths. They threw the first punch…and tray. In her defense, my friend stood up and pushed her, then I got right in the middle and was hit in the forehead. It was a lucky punch. The...