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A new boy at school who was bullied because he has dark skin so the school captain made a speech about bullying and everyone stopped bullying the boy.
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By Joshua Bonello
Published Sunday, 18th of March,
2012
Why Him?
“I can’t wait to go to school today” said Jim as he was happily
packing his bag while sweat was slowly dripping down his face
from the hot sun outside.
Jim was a friendly, caring and responsible brown haired boy in
year six. His mum asked in a confused way,
“Why are you
so excited…?”
Jim replied in a deep voice “BECAUSE I AM SCHOOL CAPTAIN
MUM, DON’T YOU REMEMBER?”
His mum answered “Oh, Umm, yes of course I remember”
Usually Jim wouldn’t be as excited as
this, but today he gets to raise the flag up
in front of the whole school at
assembly.
He is so excited his face is
as red as a tomato that has just
been washed with water.
Jim walked to school very enthusiastically for the day ahead.
Once Jim arrived at school, he went and played with his
friends. He noticed that there was a new guy at school. He saw
that there were people around talking to him. Jim was curious
to find out what they were saying, so he tried to creep closer
to them without them realising what he was doing.
Once Jim was close
enough to hear what
they were saying his
excitement to do the
flag was taken away.
To Jims surprise they were BULLYING him. The new guy was
called Zambi.
He was being bullied because he had dark
skin.
Jim felt sorry for Zambi and Jim knew he
had to do something about it
Jim went home that afternoon very
sad as a tear dropped to the floor from
his face.
He talked about Zambi while he was eating dinner with his
parents, but all they said was
“You’re in year six
now and you have
to figure out what
the right thing to
do is.”
He didn’t have a clue of what to do. He sat up in his bed the
majority of the night thinking of what to do until he finally fell
asleep.
He was tired in the morning but he
knew what to do which was good.
He tried telling them to stop but
that idea that he thought of all
night didn’t even work
.
Jim said to himself, “What am I going to do?”
The next morning he woke up at
5:30 to make big posters about
NOT BULLYING. He put them up
around the school but as he walked
passed one of his posters that
afternoon he saw that it was
ripped and torn to pieces on the
ground to fly away in the light
breeze.
Once again, this idea didn’t work.
Jim went over to Zambi and asked if he was alright and Zambi
said “No actually I am being bullied.” And Jim responded
saying “I know.” Zambi then said “Is there any speech or any
talk you can do to stop bullying?”
Luckily there was.
Jim that day went home and changed the speech for the next
assembly from littering to bullying and based it on Zambi.
The next day at school, Jim was preparing for the speech and
he saw out of the corner of his eye people bullying Zambi once
again, so he went over and listened so he could get a better
idea of what to do for his speech. While Jim was walking home
that afternoon, he was listening to his iPod.
He was listening to “WHERE IS THE LOVE” by “THE BLACK EYED
PEAS ‘and put quotes from the song in his speech like
“If you only have love for your own
race, there is only room left to
discriminate,
and to discriminate only generates
hate
and if you hate you’re bound to get
irate.
Jim made his speech. He was very nervous and was shaking
like a dog waiting for food. After he finished he knew it had a
good outcome because the speech and the messages in the
speech reached out to the people and made a difference. Jim
was relieved because that lunch he saw that people were over
talking to Zambi and they weren’t bullying h
“All the people that bullied Zambi said sorry to him and
realised he was actually quite nice and friendly, but they didn’t
know that
because they
judged him
before they got
to know him.”
said Jim happily
to one of his
friends.
After school Jim was thanked
by the principal for such a
powerful and meaningful
speech.
As Jim walked home that day he wondered why they were
bullying him because of his skin. Jim went home to tell his
parents that night everything that happened that day. He
went to bed still thinking about why Zambi was judged until
he was asleep
WHY DO YOU THINK ZAMBI WAS JUDGED BEFORE ANYONE
KNEW HIM…?
????
??
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