I have always felt oppression from society and mass media which had a negative impact on me being a person of colour. Every image on every billboard I saw and commercial I watched was someone of a lighter skin complexion, and it left an image in my mind stating that being white was superior to everyone else. I even vividly remember moments when I would disregard everything that had to do with my skin colour or my heritage at the sight of a white person. For example, my church had one white person that used to attend there, and I whenever I saw them, I remember saying to myself, “I wish I was white”, because at the time I had this pre-conceived notion that being white was cool and being black was some type of burden. There were a few moments
