0062268678 _n_
“I didnt realize how sheltered I had been. The white academy I attended didnt admit black students until I entered eighth grade. By the time I graduated, my circle had barely expanded. I was still isolated from blacks and other people of color.
A boy at my school called me nigger lips, and I spent middle and high school thinking they were something to be ashamed of. When police accused a black teenager of taking the cassette player from my banged-up Hyundai Excel, he reinstalled it and my pa...rents agreed not to press charges. After that, the radio never worked properly, and I had a personal reason to associate black men with crime.
Mary Washington College, an hour south of Washington, DC, wasnt particularly diverse, but I made my first Latina friend within hours of my arrival. I was immediately drawn to Flavia Jimenez, but I didnt know what to make of her. She spoke Spanish on the phone to her parents, who grew up in Argentina and Peru, and she had traveled the world. Her life was endlessly different from mine, and that appealed to me.MoreLess
A boy at my school called me nigger lips, and I spent middle and high school thinking they were something to be ashamed of. When police accused a black teenager of taking the cassette player from my banged-up Hyundai Excel, he reinstalled it and my pa...rents agreed not to press charges. After that, the radio never worked properly, and I had a personal reason to associate black men with crime.
Mary Washington College, an hour south of Washington, DC, wasnt particularly diverse, but I made my first Latina friend within hours of my arrival. I was immediately drawn to Flavia Jimenez, but I didnt know what to make of her. She spoke Spanish on the phone to her parents, who grew up in Argentina and Peru, and she had traveled the world. Her life was endlessly different from mine, and that appealed to me.MoreLess
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