Children understand.

It baffles me that children are the only ones that actually are not biased. They play with other children that are simply not the same. They are different. 

There is this muslim girl in our class who covers herself head to toe. She may get called names throughout the halls, but she understands that the people who call her these names are immature. She goes about her day with pride, honor, and dignity. She never does something out of line, always focusing on school, and working her hardest. She is proud of what she is and she goes about it with honor. I admire her and look up to her to no end because of what she does and how she goes about it. 

But why doesn’t this difference go unnoticed? Why doesn’t she just seem like a normal kid to me? Maybe because I do have biased about her. I always think about her differently than I think about someone else. I don’t know why, but I just do. 

When I compare my relationship with the muslim girl to a normal american adult relationship to a muslim girl, I think it would be quite different. I do not speak for other americans, I just speak for what I think other americans are thinking. 

To me, they are thinking her parents are bad people so they treat this child wrong. But why don’t they just look at this child for who she is? A hardworking, honorable, dignified student? Because they have basis. They think because she is different than the rest of us, then she is bad. 

Stop being biased because people are different, simply look at how the person is, and not how she appears to be.