Let's Get Real

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At the school, there's all kinds of name calling.

They start laughing at me.

They tell me to go back to Afghanistan.

They've called me, you know, diaperhead...

...shorty, little midget

I have been called nigger, retarded, or a girl.

...a queer, a dyke...

...slut...

...fatso...

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[playground hubbub]

They were taking their, um, their fingers and like going

I'm Chinese, I'm Brittany, 'n stuff.

...And when I got home, I got an email that said

everyone hates me and no one wants to talk to me or be my friend.

I can't deal with that, you know? If someone's

if someone's right next to your ear, going

"faggot, faggot, faggot, faggot, faggot" through the entire day,

you just want to turn around and deck 'em.

They'll come up with any reason to beat you up, really.

And then when I'm on the ground they'll act like their my friend,

"Oh, let me help you up", "I'm sorry, I'm sorry".

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I used to make fun of people or bully some girls around at my school,

because I knew I was better than them, and I was more popular than them, and,

I didn't care how they felt.

I would like walk up to them, say "You're ugly"

or talk about them very badly, and make them like, cry or somethin', sometimes.

You get mad, you take it out on somebody else.

You just walk up to 'em, hurt 'em.

Just, wham!

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There's this guy who was overweight, and they were making fun of him,

and I was like, "You know what? You're gonna go tell that kid you're sorry,

because I'm going to go tell the principal, and it's not cool of you to say that,

because, what if he starts to believe in that?".

And this was like the first time I had ever stood up for, like, a stranger.

I just felt much better.

I felt good again.

[school bell rings]

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[logo sound, hard restrained strumming of strings]

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