Ladaja Kennedy,
Norfolk, VA.
Growing up, I went to a predominately white school with mostly white friends. Because of this I was usually not hanging around with people of my same race and ethnicity, thus not sounding like the others or having connection like everyone else did when it came to it. Then later when I went to high school, the population was a large shift for me and I often had to deal with the scrutiny of sound better than my peers or even being viewed as being viewed as stuck up compared to others in my class. The thing that also got me was that my white peers would even question and sometimes laugh why I spoke like them with a name such as mine but in my mind it just made me question who I was.
