[Happynappy1]

I am a 29-year-old African-American female who attended college in Nebraska (yes, black people go to school there, too.) I found most of the white students simply did not understand black people, and their questions were born of ignorance. This certainly didn’t make them any easier to take. For four years I endured questions about my economic background (everyone wanted to know if I was on a basketball scholarship. I am 5’3′ and attended the university on an academic scholarship). People assumed that I got into the school because of affirmative action. Actually, my SAT scores and GPA were on par with the other applicants to the school (higher, really, which is why I got the scholarship. What was amazing to me was how little white people understood about black people. I hadn’t grown up around whites, but I knew plenty about their lifestyles. Everything about black people was foreign to these kids. The upside of the whole situation is that I did end up enlightening a whole lot of folks, and I did have a very strong bond with the few other black students at the school. Given the choice, I’d do it again.

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Name : Happynappy1, City : Fort Lauderdale, State : FL, Country : United States, 

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