Racism!

I have been thinking about doing this entry for awhile and not that I was afraid to make my personal life known but I didn't think it was the right time. Here is a Newspaper clipping wrote from a School Board meeting I attended and spoke to express Racism in schools. Native teen tells stories of racism A native teenager, who was adopted and moved to (Town) when she was five, says she is emotionally scarred because of the way she’s been treated in school. DEG, 17, a Grade 12 student at (School) was one of four panellists who spoke at a day-long seminar Wednesday on multicultural, anti-racist education co-sponsored by the Multicultural Association of Nova Scotia and the (Blank) County district school board. "There was one experience I can never forget(in Grade Primary). I was swinging on the swing at school and a kid came up to me and pushed me off. He said "Indians are not allowed on the swings", he told me to go back to my teepee where I belong". D said in an emotionally charged speech. "At that point in my life, I knew I was different. I didn’t understand. I looked the same, I dressed the same, but I wasn’t the same. I had a different skin color," Incidents of racism at school had a serious effect on D, who says she later denied her native roots. (it actually has Metis roots here, but at the time to me with the knowledge I had on my history, I was full Native) "I drilled it into my head that I was white, I didn’t want to be different any more, I was afraid to tell people how I felt.....I was hurting and they didn’t know what I was going through." The name calling "gets to you," she said. D felt pain and anger and lost her self esteem. "I hated myself in general. "Now I realize how wrong I was....I I don’t want to feel like a victim any more...I want to get on with my life." D said she has come to accept who she is. "I am me and if people want to be prejudiced they can, because I am too good for them to hurt me." "There are people in this country who think they have the right to abuse people... but they are the ones who have the problems and should get help. I learned over my 17 years that it is OK to be myself and to live the life I want to live" I guess you are wondering why I haven't written names in my posts. It's more protecting my family in not concealing my identity. Stangers don't need to know my childrens names, see pictures of them or know the names of the people I talk about. In respect to them I'll never write their names on my blog. Racism is everywhere and it's not fair but that's life. We were all given "FREE WILL" so everyone's truths are different and we all see the world differently. Everyone is unique, special and no matter who you are..we are all human. It depends on how you want to look at the world. If anyone has any questions of what I've been writing so far just leave me an email. I will answer the good, bad and the crazy! Take care!!!