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In all seriousness my high school experience was anything but easy as a Black man. I’m very happy with the direction that the new administration is going in but man the amount of things I didn’t even know I was dealing with
Let’s talk about it though. We never had any type of Black History Month acknowledgment nor did we have a Black Student Union because “it promoted self-segregation.”
Freshman year study hall we were talking about movies that were coming out and one kid told me “your people are really loud in the movies” the proctor did nothing
Like a week later I walked in the study hall room with a book on my head (bc that’s the dumb stuff you do in study hall” and that same kid told me how happy I was that I was “embracing my culture”
We had 1 Black man and 2 Black women as teachers. They taught English and Spanish.
My junior/ senior year college advisors talked me out of applying to HBCUs because “they had less opportunities”
And it didn’t stop at race either. I remember one Black and openly gay student who was effectively ostracized from everyone. He had to rely on our sister school for support. I wish I spoke up more.
But all-in-all, the experiences I had made me stronger. I’ve had so many conversations with non-white, non-straight alum who have similar stories
