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Joining the bandwagon of sharing the racism I experienced at M*dstr*am C*ll*ge. It won’t be as extensive as Salu’s bc I genuinely don’t remember most of it bc I blocked it from my meomory
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1. Black girls getting singled out for our skirts being “too short” while the white girls who actively rolled up their skirts to make them shorter were left alone.
2. A teacher telling my friends mom that we have different accents when we speak to each other vs when we speak to white people (hello, asimilation)
3. Joking around with my friend in Sesotho and being told not to “speak your black language” in an Afrikaans classes filled with Afrikaans people speaking Afrikaans to actively exclude us from the conversion
4. My friend group being told we’re the “cool black girls” unlike the other black girls in the grade.
5. My friend group being the token black friends of the “popular kids”
5. My friend group being the token black friends of the “popular kids”
6. My friend being told “yoh (redacted), if you weren’t black...”
7. “Don’t you want white girl hair? You’d look so pretty if you had braids”
7. “Don’t you want white girl hair? You’d look so pretty if you had braids”
8. My friend was a very racist Afrikaans boy’s Secret Angel (I think that’s what it was called). She went out of her way to buy him a can of coke and a bag of bolting and asked me to give it to him. I greeted him (and his friends) like I would greet any other person
(Cont) but all I got in return was a cold “what?” when I told him that the things I had were from his Secret Angel, he looked at me IN DISGUST and said he doesn’t want it 
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9. Being told our kind doesn’t belong in the school by previous Afrikaans boy and his friends https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="☺️" title="Smiling face" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face">
10. A teacher turning off the light and looking in the direction of my friends and I before saying “sjoe, it’s so dark in here” then opening the blinds
11. My brother and his friends being called “k-k-kans vatters”
12. First day of school, my grade head told me she’s going to call me “Maddie” because my government name is “too difficult” AFTER I told her to call me Didi
13. Racist girl saying “I’m not racist; my au pair’a black!”
14. Racist boy saying Portuguese-South Africans went though more hardship than black people ever did during Apartheid
14. Racist boy saying Portuguese-South Africans went though more hardship than black people ever did during Apartheid
15. Talking to my friends in Sesotho and white boys throwing in clicks in the middle of our conversation
16. “I would never date a black girl but I would have sex with her”
16. “I would never date a black girl but I would have sex with her”
