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[quote=Anonymous]I’m white and UMC and went to schools growing up where I was the extreme minority (less than 5% of my graduating class were white out of a class of about 500 and something like 85% were on free or reduced lunch.)

It was fine. Actually, it was good. I’m glad I have a lot of friends from different races and backgrounds. I’m glad I learned from an early age how privileged I am just by being white and also of course from being UMC. There were some difficult times socially and sometimes I was excluded but that could happen at any school. I do remember once in 2nd grade my best friend at school, who was black, asked her mom if I could play at her house after school and her mom initially said yes but then once her mom found out I was white, she said no that we couldn’t play together outside of school. That definitely hurt and I didn’t understand it at the time. But now I kind of do (I don’t agree w her mom’s decision but do understand it to a certain extent...I grew up in the south and there are still so many racial problems in the city I grew up in that I can see why a black parent may not want their kid hanging out w a white kid.)

I think if it’s a good school, you should do it.[/quote]

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