As a child I most certainly thought all of that was normal. The constant people bullying me and picking fights with me. I was also the smallest child among my peers growing up and that most certainly didn't help. You can say the 70's, 80's, 90's....weren't so equal in mind. Still a lot of racist hatred and xenophobic hatred.
As a teenager to college student, when you go out and there's trouble...I see most people just freeze or start running away. I seen my shares of fights up close happening right in front of me. At the young adult age, I am much more cautious, since if I wanted to jump in a help someone getting beat up, I have to wonder if my friends would be able to do the same. Unfortunately from my experience, not a single person has that sort of guts or resolve. Furthermore, if one is not a white guy, it's certainly one would go to jail. I've seen my share of PIGS. Yeah, they were like 30 feet away and it still took them over 5 minutes to show up to the fight scene. By that time the thugs have ran away, not once did they asked anyone who witness it to step forward.
I've been pulled over many times for no reason...they make me wait 10-20 minutes...some times here's a ticket you've got a light out, the last one here's a ticket, you've got a crack in your windshield. We live in MN, cold winter, you can get cracks in windshield. The worst of all, some bus driver happened to be Hmong, claimed I was speeding...wow ...no witnesses and I still got a ticket in the mail. Really! Do people just do these bad things to me or does God intend these bad things to happen to me?
 
I'm sure if God keeps testing me in this manner...one of these days...I will fail his test. I'm only human, with emotions and basic instincts of fight or flight. I know I will fight if I'm backed into a corner...it's biological instinct for survival.