Growing up in Brooklyn I had the opposite
effect. I always had to prove that I was black. When I was little I was light skinned,with long curly hair. I was called
oreo reverse(white outside,black inside)Puerto Rican,hey I thought it meant light skinned black person, I was 10 years old at the time.By the 8th grade I was so pro Black
I wanted to change my name to Angela Joanne
Davis Chesimard. Then I realized that you either liked me for me or the hell with you. People still sometimes come up to me and speak spanish, but I just say "I am trying to speak better so please talk to me in English".
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