[Jessica.]

Originally Posted by Swan

Yes as a kid and teen i was mocked for being white. **** happens, no big deal, education is key, and white or black, the education was bad where i grew up.

As it happens im best friends now with one of the worst for the bullying back then. We realised our love of rap music and were inseparable for then onwards. Colour was no longer an issue, we bonded over our love of music.

There is a difference between being mocked and stereotyped and experiencing racism. If those people were racist then they wouldn't have become your friends. If you mean you were literally a very young primary school aged child when this happened then those children were probably mimicking things they had heard from adults and weren't actually racist either.

Racism hurts, it makes people feel like they are second class citizens, it makes people feel like they're not good enough. People who experience racism have to work harder for things than we do, it's a fact.