Without knowing my ethnicity, you'd be certain that I was a white male if you heard the way I spoke. Being raised in a mostly white neighborhood has caused me to speak in a very articulate fashion and behave in the same manner as the others around me. In pursuit of a better education, I started my first year at Michigan Math and Science Academy in the 7th grade. Unlike the other public schools I’ve attended before 7th grade, the student body at MMSA is predominately black. After being in mainly white schools for all of my life, my first year at MMSA took some adjusting to. I just wasn’t used to the primarily black student body and intellectually safe atmosphere.
In my experience, people usually gravitate toward people of their own race when
In my experience, people usually gravitate toward people of their own race when