Mixed Girl Problems: GRITS
GRITS, or an acronym for Girl Raised In The South, was our family's motto since we were living in South Carolina now! We were excited for the new school year to come at different schools. I would start high school a few months later after we moved and I had to face identity troubles and where I fit in at school all over again. Most students thought I was Puerto Rican because of my skin color, black students said I talked white, and white students did not care to be friends because I was not white. And everyone still segregated themselves at lunch so where do I sit in this school cafeteria, once again? At least I had one girl, *Serena, who became my best friend and who just so happened to be mixed race too! We clicked right away because we were going through the same things like, we both had just moved from another state, agreed the school system was different, and faced a few bullies together. I remember one day in gym class, we were doing some exercises on the f...