terence roberts, who lived within walking distance of the school, less than ten blocks away from the school, and after he was turned away, he came and tried to encourage me to leave with him. right, but the fact is, for several minutes, you are pretty much isolated as you faced, notjust one or two, but actually a couple of hundred, at least, white people — now, some of them young and some of them old — who had gathered to try to block any black student getting into school that day. yes. that was shocking. what was more shocking to me was that i had thought that the national guard was there to protect all students, including me. they were there to keep me out and i did not realise that, until i was turned away the third time and even directed to go across the street, where those angry voices were. i have been reading some of the words that were directed at you — 15 years old, and these are some of the words, "lynch her", people said. they used the "n" word. and they said, "get out of our school," "go back to where you came from." and some said they thought i should go back to africa..