Yo, yo, yo, and welcome to the Stoop Kid Stories podcast.

I am your virtual best friend and favorite Stoop Kid, Melly.

I am so excited to share my stories with you. So make sure you tell

your friends. Make sure you tell your best friends. Make sure you tell your best friend's best friend.

Wait, that would be you. Well, make sure you tell everyone to check out this podcast so they can

enjoy the stories too.

Enough of me talking.

Let's get on with the story.

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Hey, my stoop kids, and welcome to episode seven of the Stoop Kid Stories podcast.

This story will be in two parts, so make sure at the end of this episode, you continue to listen to episode 8 to hear the whole story.

But I have a question before we start. Have you ever been treated differently because you looked different from your friends? Have you ever felt like you

didn't belong because of the color of your skin? Well, this episode is going to talk about something

called microaggressions. Basically, a microaggression is when someone says or

does something mean or negative towards someone based on their differences like race, gender, or

religion. Have you ever treated someone, you know, badly because they were different from you? Even if the person

didn't mean it, I want you to know that words still hurt. And today, I want to introduce you to a

friend of mine, my friend McKinley, Dorothy Irene Brown. But for short, we'll just call her Mickey. Mickey was a seventh

grader who lived right outside of the city in a small suburb with her mom, dad, and baby brother

Booker. Her mom was a pediatrician, a fancy word for a kid doctor, and her dad was a lawyer.

Life was good for them. Very good. Mickey was the president of her middle school

student government association and she volunteered after school with her friends in a club called

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