Jose Tapia

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His words rang out often “You guys are smart enough to know that it’s up to you to become what you want to be (p. 122).” There are many teachers as Jose Tapia, that put their lives and jobs on the line to influence students regardless of disparity. Tapia knew a lot of the students came from unhealthy upbringing and easily could have turned on him, but pressed on to influence despite that and the fact the principal wanted to get rid of him for encouraging the students to reach far past the problems of life. Students often look back on life and realize if it was not for a certain individual caring about their obstacles in life what would they have

This mom had to endure cruelty and hatred in front of her children from the conductor and put off the train. All this transpired when the train stopped to pick them up, it so happened the train stopped where white only enter, and honest mistake. The mom made aware of this mistake by the conductor and said that she and her children had to move to the African American section. Of course, the mother tried to explain that they were not responsible where the train stopped and had no other option but to board and find seats. She also told him that she would not risk her safety and her children’ s moving to the “colored” section while the train was moving. He seemed to have agreed with her, hail to the engineer to stop the train and when it came to a complete stop commanded that they leave the train. Her bewilder young son wanted to know why the man was so mean to them and why they were not permitted to ride the train to their destination. The mother’s reply to her young child could have been reckless and hateful, but instead, she seized the moment to teach the child about race relations, what is not superiority, that he is not inferior to anyone, and life is too precious to use energy to hate and be intolerance. The young boy learned, also, from his mother that day to use his energies to be a better person, and” the journey to understanding and tolerance was