Kaitlyn Shinault
Growing up as the only white kid in a minority community I was often torn between my racially diverse friends and my very southern conservative white extended family.
What I saw on TV didn’t match my experience with my friends or family yet they disagreed on very vital issues.
My white family didn’t have close ties to black communities like I did, and my black friends told me, “I didn’t count as white” because I wasn’t like the other white kids? To this day I’m still very torn and frustrated.
