Read the excerpt from It's Our World. Tool: Young People
Who Are Making a Difference,
What detail in this excerpt further complicates Neto's
conflict?
Neto is terrified to speak to the school board.
Baldy takes Neto to the school board meeting.
Neto tells the school board about the racist comments.
The school board does not respond to Neto.
When they entered the board's meeting room, Neto was
terrified. They were alone with the ten white men who were
the members of the Marsing school board. I couldn't believe
I was really doing this," Neto recalls. "Then I heard Baldy
say, Neto wants to talk with you about the football team.
"So I just started. I told them I was quitting and why. I told
them word-for-word what I had heard. Only one of them
looked like he was really listening. When I was finished, they
thanked me for coming, but they didn't say they would do
anything about it. I went home thinking. Well, at least I tried.
Now they can't say nobody told them."