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I may be a introvert and usually stay indoors but the fact I am this way cause my family when I was little used to instill fear into me that if I ever went outside or wanted to visit a friend who was not black like me bad things would happen. 2020 really be a bad year..
Years into teenhood btw i dropped this fear and did in fact even sleepover at friends places. I felt safe we were youths just having fun. I never felt unsafe until in high school they had on display a very old yearbook that had students in KKK costumes for halloween.
My school had a bad history of the times trying to include poc into it when it started Ive been told. They explaimed the yearbook is on display cause it was the qst year one of the sports teams won something but it slightly bothered me that book was there. I grew to ignore it.
The school is now mostly runned by poc so thats well. Im unsure if that yearbook still is in the sports display case but im sure its ignored or hope it is by the current gen.
Anyways just wanted to speak alittle im not too great at talking about serious matters. Most of my racism bullying were done by other poc or the internet. Ive been told about 3 times that i needed acid tossed on my face cause im way to dark. Never understood why I was told this..
but i know now it was a way to say I was just too black and ugly. It was said by 3 very different people all online too.
Ok last tweet to this thread. I am afraid of what this world is coming to but I jave a small group of friends who like me for who I am and know that I am black. I feel sometimes its a bother to them ut thats just my timid ways. Thanks for reading this..Be safe and respectful.
