Samantha took us sight seeing around parts of Leeds that she knew, it was a very pleasant place it wasn’t boring it had some interesting places that we could visit.
On the way back we were all very hungry we were near here flat which is near the university but Samantha decided to buy us Burger King because she said there is hardly anything to eat at home. When we got to burger king the place was quite big but it was so busy and the queue looked like it went on forever but we still went in and as soon as we stepped in a rush of heat just hit us, the place was too stuffy you could hear babies crying under the force of the heat. It was even to hot and stuffy for me that it was starting to aggravate my asthma I told my older sister what I wanted and that I would wait outside for them as I couldn’t cope with the heat.
20 minutes past, and they were still in there every time I looked they hardly moved an inch so I decided to wander around trying to kill some time but kept close to the burger king as I didn’t want to get lost.
When I returned they were nearly at the counter. I started pacing up and down outside burger king waiting for them to come out. While I was pacing up and down, at the corner of my eye I could see a tall dark haired white male looking very angry power walking in my direction. I decided to move out of his way but he kept going from one side to another looking like he was drunk. Each side of the pavement he went on I tried going to the opposite side of the pavement but for some reason it was like he was deliberately trying to go in my way. I stopped in front of the burger king door and was about to enter so he could just go pass, but he reached me just as I was going in he then purposely shoulder barged me. I was put off balance nearly falling to the floor “watch where you’re going” I said. It just came out of my mouth with out me thinking of it. He turned around looked straight into my eyes and asked me “what did you say?” I had annoyed him and my heart started pounding hard like it wanted to get out of my body. I repeated what I said “watch where you’re going” but this time I said it a bit hesitantly with the words hardly coming out. Then he came up to me and pushed me adding a racist comment “shouldn’t you be hanging from a tree you black monkey”. I knew this was racist as it sounded just like what I have heard people talking about it. He started making noises that monkey’s make he kept going on and on I tried to ignore it. I couldn’t stand it anymore so I clenched my fist and started swinging for him but it was useless because he kept moving out the way. I stopped I tried getting my breath back, but then he gave me one hard punch to my stomach which took out all the air out of my lungs I started falling and I could hear him saying “is that all you got” as I reached the ground my eyes started to close and everything went black.
I woke up lying down on a bench Samantha and Chinwe were next to me, “what happened” I asked. “You passed out” Samantha replied, “Chinwe saw you just as you got punched and we came rushing out”. I saw the man being held by a police officer, I asked Samantha how he got caught and she said a passer by saw what was happening and called the police the police came just after he punched you. They told Samantha that he had a public order offence and he was a well known racist, as he broken his public order offence he would be put in jail and that I could charge him.
Looking back on it now I had a short temper but that gave me no reason to react the way I did. I was foolish to try and fight a full grown man as well. What I should have done was to have ignored it but as he kept carrying on I should have gone to my older sister and told her what was going on. She would of dealt with it responsibly.
