An essay on respecting diversity by James

Why we should not be prejudiced by James Dunwich, 6B

The Americans have elected a black man for president for the first time and everyone thinks this is really important because he is not white and so he knows what it is like to not be white. But he is still a man an he is still an American and he is still alive so he does not know what it is like to be not a man and not an American and not alive. I think this shows prejudice against all the people who are not alive American men.

I have a friend called Albert he is postliving and he is very clever. Mum likes men who are clever but only if they are alive. If they are vitally challenged like Albert she just calls them all ghosts and is not interested. I think it is because she does not know what it is like to be differently existing but she will find out one day and then we will see how she likes it! It isn't nice when everyone is prejudiced against you as Albert knows.

Albert says he knows some postliving Native Americans who want to be president but they aren't allowed even though they are American and they aren't nearly as black as the president but they are not alive.

I want to have some differently existing penfriends now I have a new computer and I can talk to them. Mum just wants me to have boring old living penfriends like Alice in Switzerland. I have told my Mum she is a Vital Supremacist and should be ashamed. She is a member of a place called LingQ and you have to be alive or they don't let you join I think it is shameful.

My Mum thinks she is not prejudiced because she likes men and women and black people and white people and all sorts of foreigners. But she is prejudiced because she does not like postliving people. She calls them dead or ghosts or deceased which is just as bad. She thinks they are creepy and they should go back where they came from and not try to talk with living people at all. She treats them worse than slaves although she does not want them to do anything she just wants them to go away and not bother her. Well if differently alive people started chaining themselves to railings and throwing themselves under the Queen's horse it would just serve everybody right.