Today I had to answer the prompt of what my stereotypes are and how I overcome them. This is my response.
My Stereotypes:
I am black so I must be poor, ignorant, and ugly.
I am so much more than my stereotypes. People come up to me every
day asking me about “trap” houses and things that they find “ghetto”. Going to
a predominantly Caucasian school, they combine things they don’t understand
about the African American culture with their ideas of rap moguls and they
associate that with me. I have nothing to do with drugs, alcohol, or ignorance.
It is not my skin that makes me ugly, but it is I who make my skin beautiful.
What these people don’t know is that I am a 16 year-old girl
who has started her own store, maintains a unweighted 3.94 GPA, and speaks
Chinese. They don’t know that I’m a volleyball player and a dancer who has been
making contacts with the leaders of Fortune 500 companies since 2014. They
don’t recognized that I am the sophomore who continues to apply for these scholarships
who just so happens to be of Haitian and African descent. I am not my hair and
I am not my skin. I am the beautiful soul that lives within.
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