my name is jessica. i am 20 years old. i grew up in hawaii all my life, so race never became an issue until i maved to atlanta georgia at the age of 16. until then i had never experienced being black or white. in hawaii everyone is dark and mixed so i never felt out of place. when i moved to georgia is when i started noticing that i was different. i went to a predominantly white public school after being in private school all my life. i was the only black kid in the advanced classes--did not fit in there. but was obviously not black enough for the other kids. i never knew race was an issue until a discussion in my african american history class my freshman year. races should not mix was the comment i heard most. WHY? i did not see what everyone else was talking about. Here i was going to a historically black school(florida a&m university) to learn more about the side of me i did not know very well. i was an outcast because i had a white mother! what did she do to anybody? then of course came the comment that they weren't talking about my mother. who then? everyone but her? i don't think that i am crazy--i just have a naive perception that race really doesn't matter. my parents did get divorced so i hear that interracial marriages never last. can that be true? can history of the two races come so much into play that they can never be together?

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