Candy Is Acid
The kid who sits next to me in English 3 Honors is somewhat racist but he is my friend.
I cant go a day without him putting his hand in my hair or tugging it to see if it's fake or real -___-".
He also then asking if I like watermelons and kool-aid.
Any other black females or any one else ever have to face this?
Also why don't anyone put there hand in a white girls hair to see if its fake? My mom is a cosmotologist and I see a lot of white and latino females getting full on weaves down there backs -___-"
On the hair thing, I know right!!! Like my brother(who is white) his girlfriend(also white) is a beautician and she does extensions all the time and wears them! I see more white women with extensions than I see black women at my university so I don't get why people only think that it's a black thing to have fake hair? And she only does white hair as far as I know so....yeah.
But, I have natural hair so no one ever gives me crap about that unless I straighten it. Then they ask if I got extensions or something because it's so damn long.
But your "friend" sounds like a jerk. When I went to school out of state my first year almost everyone was white. All my friendships in my home state were really diverse since I went to high school in a big city and my school was probably seventy-percent people of color and international students so....it was a big change. According to my new "friends" I wasn't black enough. So, they decided it was okay to make black jokes in front of me on a daily basis. They'd say "No offense but this is f****'n hilarious" and totally disregard me...like how can I not take offense to that? Another day we were talking about where our families are from and I said Denmark and Bohemia and they asked me: "You know you're black right?"...it didn't occur to them that I'm mixed and despite my skin color half my DNA does come from my white side...people are stupid. Rant over...I just hate the way people act sometimes...were you raised in a barn or what!
Since you sit next to that kid everyday I think you should tell him in a calm and polite manner that you find his questions and hair touching to be rude and inappropriate. If he continues after that, maybe have an adult talk to him about it? I doubt you want to be a tattle-tale or something but...it's wrong for him to treat you or anyone else like that and what if he's doing that to other girls in other classes and making them uncomfortable too? He's gotta learn it's not okay.