Things All Black People Who Went To PWI's Can Relate To

no, I do no go tanning.

1. Learning about slavery for the first time and having everyone in the room searching for your reaction like

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2. Never reading books with black protagonists who were not slaves and thinking to yourself

3. Having a hard time figuring out your family tree before 1864 and showing up to class during family tree day like

4. Trying to explain your hair care routine and thinking

5. Being told that it's "gross" that you don't wash your hair everyday and thinking to yourself

6. When your ignorant teacher calls on you and asks you to speak on behalf of the black community

7. When that one woke teacher calls another student out on their ignorance and racism

8. When someone asks you if you tan

9. Always getting asked to be in the photos for the annual newsletter or any type of school ad for diversity's sake

10. Giving up on educating your white friends and having to respond to one of their ignorant remarks by saying

11. Having to check someone who you already don't like about a blatantly racist comment

12. Having every compliment given to you followed by (for a black girl/guy)

13. Being told how articulate or eloquent you are, as if you're the exception

14. Your white friends telling you they're "blacker than" you

15. Hearing classmates constantly throw around the terms "ghetto" and "ratchet"

TBT to the "ghetto" heard round the world: Southern, yet ignorant belle, Kimberly, told her RealWorld:Hollywood cast-member, Breanna, "lets not get ghetto" after KIMBERLY cursed her out first.

16. Having people playfully greet only you with "hay gurrrll" or "aye what's up bruh"

17. Having opponents of any team you were on accuse your school of recruiting

"I've been here since Kindergarten" - *read in the same voice as the "I'm from Michigan" line in Mean Girls

18. Having people reduce your athletic ability to black people "having an extra ligament"

19. Being told that your family voted for Obama only "because he's Black"

Go to response: "so is that why your family didn't vote for him?"

20. Having people at your school always assume you listened to *insert rapper*'s new mixtape as if blackness = an appreciation of the entire rap genre

And may be I have heard Future and Drake's new fire mixtape, but that's besides the point

21. Having everyone try to match you up with the only other black private school kid they know

22. Graduating but still having to deal with the constant stream of racism via Facebook

"All lives matter" -- "Stop being lazy and work hard" -- "Heritage not Hate" -- "Well may be if they would just respect officers they wouldn't have to be shot or beaten" -- "a thousand dollars for Obama's head" -- *yes, these are all real

23. Deciding that you will be proud of your blackness