Make Love not War
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I go to an all white New England prep school, one of the top five in the country to be exact, and many people seem to be shocked when they hear what my parents do. Both my parents are native Africans that slaved to come to college in America. My mother and father met at Yale,and then went off to Princeton together for graduate school. Then, my father got his PhD at Johns Hopkins. Many people are shocked, and I remember one time I had a phone interview with a woman, and then met her in person, she said, "I thought you were the preppiest blond chick on the planet. But you're not, you're black." I was shocked to say the least. Everywhere I turn at school people tell me, "You're so white!You don't like rap, and you listen to hardcore rock. You're pretty weird fora black chick." My parents HATE rap, and so do I. When people meet my parents they're shocked at how nicely their dressed, and how i look like I'm from money(I'm not,my parents just told me that the clothes make the person when I was growing, and that has caused me to dress with care.)I can't help but feel insulted when people make this mistakes, because I know I can't be the only African American girl feeling like this. Also, whenever we talk about slavery in class everyone assumes that my ancestors were slaves, and then they realize that I am a true African they feel like I am even weirder. And then "true" Black Americans hate me because apparently I didn't have to suffer like they did. I never had a black friend until I came to high school, instead I was picked on and bullied by mostly black people that thought that my africanness was an atrocity. I can never win, I am discriminated against by both major races, either for being to white, or for being to African. What should I do?