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Elizabeth Yarde graduated Monday from Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, one of the city’s specialized high schools. As one of only a handful of Black students there, she experienced overt racism, which damaged her mental health and led her to speak out.
The first thing Elizabeth Yarde noticed on her first day at Queens High School for the Sciences at York College was the lack of Black students.
The daughter of Caribbean immigrants, Yarde felt intense stares from other students, their looks seemingly questioning Yarde’s place at the elite high school, and she heard racial slurs being tossed around freely. At lunch, when Yarde started up a conversation with a fellow student, he remarked that he had never had a Black friend before.
“I started to slowly realize that a lot of these kids had kind of been sheltered from other races of people to the point where they didn’t really know how to be racially sensitive,” said Yarde, 17, who graduated Monday. “It seemed like kids were either automatically intimidated by me, or they immediately undermined me.”
Would make that the discomfort she is feeling is not from other people but instead coming from within
Easy way to find out is for some of her classmates to be interviewed and to know what Middle School she came from
Well the bolded was stated
"The daughter of Caribbean immigrants, Yarde felt intense stares from other students, their looks seemingly questioning Yarde’s place at the elite high school, and she heard racial slurs being tossed around freely. At lunch, when Yarde started up a conversation with a fellow student, he remarked that he had never had a Black friend before."
So whatever, its her word. All this race stuff is tiring.
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Asian American students account for more than 80% of the student body – about 480 students – while only 3% of students are Black, even though Black students make up roughly a quarter of students in New York City’s public schools.
Asians don't have the same guilt complex about their skin color and didn't treat this special chocolate snowflake like she thought she deserved. Because nothing is more important these days than being a victim.
Asians don't have the same guilt complex about their skin color and didn't treat this special chocolate snowflake like she thought she deserved. Because nothing is more important these days than being a victim.
Now we're discounting the feelings of minors.
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Yeah I don't doubt she was genuinely uncomfortable, and I do feel bad that she went through that. But I'm still interested to learn if she was uncomfortable because Asian/white kids were not used to being around her, or if she was not used to being around Asian/white kids
Absolutely. Minors have all sorts of opinions that are worthy of complete dismissal. But I don't doubt that the Asian kids didn't kiss her butt all day.
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