Read the excerpt from it's our world, too! : young people who are making a difference.

the board was meeting that night. baldy offered to pick neto up and take him. neto hesitated. he knew he had the courage to blast through tacklers and the toughness to work all day in the beet fields, but this seemed harder. when jesse paz said he'd go, neto finally agreed.

baldy picked up neto first, but when they got to jesse's, jesse was nowhere to be found. now neto had to choose: did he testify alone or forget it? "all right," neto finally said, letting out a long breath. "we've gone this far. let's finish it."

the conflict in this excerpt affects jesse because he decides to

avoid speaking publicly about the situation.
confront the racist crowd about their remarks.
only go to the meeting if neto went with him.
address the school during the morning announcements.