I feel you Soror ST.
I have four little cousins growing up in an almost all white suburb and my heart hurts for them. The other day I took my little cousin to the bus stop when I was visiting them. THe other little white boys completely ignored him. (I remember when that was me too).
THey had an incident where one of the little boys told him that he was dirty because he was black. THe REAL kicker about that one though, the little boy who said it was with two other boys, one of whom was black (they told him he was different
). My cous's mom called the principal and parents with the QUICKNESS. She said that they were all very, very angry about it, ESPECIALLY the mother of the little black boy.
My cousin and her husband both grew up in schools that were mostly black, and they are sort of at a loss as to how to deal with this situation. I fee like in our family I am really the only one here who can relate to what my lil cous is going through and there isn't really a way that I can make it better for him. All we can do is love him, teach him to love himself and hope that he makes his own way...
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