Friday, March 14, 2014

"Black Ice"

I have experienced situations before in which I would consider myself treading on "black ice". Once as a middle schooler at a predominantly white middle school a white classmate referred to another black student that was not present as a "nigger". He looked at me and I said "I don't care" because I felt like that was more socially acceptable to say. Sometimes as a mixed race individual the pressure to fit in with one group becomes so great that you make decisions that you look back on in disgust.

1 comment:

  1. Your situation is fairly similar to Ms. Mitchell's. What is more intriguing to me is that you feel you were aware at a young age. In most cases, you don't find even a middle school aged student who acknowledges feeling the way you did.

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