My Second Essay Possible Topic

I am not sure exactly what I am going to write my essay about, but I am pretty sure what I am going to write it on. I think that I am going to write it on racial profiling. In particular, I am going to write about how it has affected my life. Of course, I am black (African American). Throughout my life, I have been pretty good at school. Throughout grade school, I only made one B in my whole life and the rest were A’s. The B that I got was back in third grade. It was in science. I will never forget that B that blemished my nearly perfect grade school record. I was pretty upset about it when I first got it. I used to be a super perfectionist. My perfectionism extended from me keeping my room clean, to making good grades at school, to being the best at every sport I played (mainly basketball). Now, I am not as much as a perfectionist as was, but I am still a perfectionist to an extent. In college, I have been accepting B’s in some of my classes. I really need to get back to the all A’s mentality that I had back in grade school. Anyway, to go along with all of these good grades, I skipped a grade back in middle school. I skipped seventh grade. Also, I was valedictorian of my eighth grade class, and this is right after I had skipped a grade. (I went from sixth to eighth grade). In high school, I graduated fifth in my class with a 4.0 grade point average. I have never gotten in any real trouble at school. I have never gotten detention, nor have I ever gotten suspended. Now that I am finished bragging about myself, let me tell you about what the real problem is. At the beginning of a semester, I can tell by how the teachers treat me and how they look at me that they think that I will not do good in there class. However, once I talk to the teachers and start making good grades in there classes, they start treating me and looking at me in a different way. Not all teachers do this, but a good chunk of them do. I do not know if it has to do with the way I talk or the way I dress. I know that it has a lot to do with me being black. I guess I could see why they would think this way. I a lot (and maybe even most) of black people do badly in school and act a certain way. However, not all black people are like this. I think that it is wrong to prejudge a person before you even get to know them. I think that it is all right to think a certain way towards a particular ethnicity and expect them to act a certain way. This may be okay, but when you start treating them a certain way (particularly immorally) because of your assumptions, then that becomes a problem. I think that thinking negatively is a problem, but it is not nearly as bad as treating someone negatively. That is a little bit of what I think that my essay will be about.