Jaclyn Flint,
Elmira, NY
I’ve been through a lot of pain, friends are complicated. You hang out with people for so many years, don’t know they’re racists, or jerks. Automatically if you’re with those people, you’re the same as them. When will it be normalized as ‘just because you hang out with them, you’re not like them’? Those friends have hurt me a lot and I’m still friends with them for the same reason as most people, I’ve known them and only them really. No one else wanted to be friends with me, this was my group and even though we had some rough times, the pain I had got set aside, because to them I’m “white and supposed to push through the pain because people have it worse”. Yes, people have it worse but just because I’m white, doesn’t mean I can’t have feelings because news flash, my life is rough too, which was a shocker to them.
