Performing in front of the class

A couple of weeks ago my classmates and I had the task of presenting a sketch or play just for us. Since we have been covering the theme of discrimination, goes to show what our sketches were about. We pretty much covered all of the basis for discrimination; race, sexual orientation, living arrangements, religion, etc.

My group 'THE Writers' covered racial discrimination. Our sketch is titled 'TSA' and in overview it's  about a Mexican and his day at an airport. We see him and our other characters going through the TSA checkpoints and after clearing the first one, our main character is detained and questioned at the second checkpoint by a racist TSA agent because he is belived to be an illegal immigrant, another passenger overhears the dispute and goes to the aid of our main character. The actual process of coming up with the idea for racial discrimination, the dialogue, assigning characters and whatnot was simple enough. I consider on of the hardest parts of the assignment was the fact that we had to tie in a poem that had something to do with the sketch itself. We ended up going with a poem titled 'I Rise' by M. Angelou. Which I think is pretty much a straight forward poem as to what a person that has felt the brunt of racial discrimination actually feels.

The actual process of the sketch to me was pretty enjoyable in a way... but I much rather be in the creation process of it all than actually acting. But I must say that the theme while sometimes overdone is still a very prominent problem in society. I can even relate to this situation basically in its exact detail. Which I find outrageous not because of the fact that it happened to me but because that its happening in this day in age when we know the kind of consequences that stem from discrimination and we as a general society should know better...