‘No one could see beyond my color, and it crushed me’: Brown teen’s quest for identity

I DIDN’T THINK RACISM STILL EXISTED.

After all, I learnt in school that Martin Luther King Jr. eradicated racism back in the ’60s, and that was a bad thing that used to exist back in the day, but only typically in the South. And I lived in Ohio, so it’s definitely not a place like Alabama. I also went to a Christian school, so there was no reason I should ever experience anything of the sort.