The Great Gatsby Discrimination

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Discrimination comes in all shapes and sizes. Its mostly ever when someone wantes to floow their dream. “i had a dream”, a basketball dream. Weird how it started with a hit to the head by this brown and round ovject.
3rd Grade “Freeze your it”, ive just been tagged and i know this is going to be easy Justin a kid in my class always runs towards the court ny the boys playinh nasketball. kids sawrming left and right and there goes Justin just i thoughy. As i ran through “boom”

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