There was a point in my life that I wish I were white
Looking back, I wish I could tell myself that I was fine the way I am
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bijouxbroussard · F
I understand this. I think this is part of the experience of being a person of color alone in a largely white environment.
When I was young, my parents moved to a newly integrated city (mainly because we were there) and sent me to the all-white Catholic school.
The reason was because they believed that sending me (and my siblings who followed) to a "good" school would be to our advantage, but socially it was often very hard and I know I hated being so "different".
It wasn’t that I thought being white was better but I knew that at the minimum it sometimes would’ve meant being left alone, not targeted for hatred.
When I was young, my parents moved to a newly integrated city (mainly because we were there) and sent me to the all-white Catholic school.
The reason was because they believed that sending me (and my siblings who followed) to a "good" school would be to our advantage, but socially it was often very hard and I know I hated being so "different".
It wasn’t that I thought being white was better but I knew that at the minimum it sometimes would’ve meant being left alone, not targeted for hatred.
