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I never felt this way before coming to SDN. I grew up and went to school with Whites.
I date interracially. I date internationally.
But my life experience and reading the news and the horrible and inappropriate comments...it's all just too much.
When a White woman pulls a gun on a Black man in broad daylight in a crowded Walmart parking lot saying she was in fear for her life when witnesses say the man was 10 ft away and only asked for a cigarette light?! When everyday I read about police killing URMs....when everyday people try to justify these senseless murders and victim blame...it's all too much to handle.
It's so sad that on this site, URMs have to "hide." When I post on other forums, someone tries to "out" me and then denigrate my potential based on my GPA (which is not horrible, btw).
URMs who are trying to be supportive message me anonymously out of fear of the bigoted a--holes who post on here.
I really am getting tired of it. (Not the support, I'll take any I can get, anonymous or otherwise; I meant the fact that we have to hide ourselves and not be proud, and have to deal with macro and micro aggressions online and in real life)
Apparently unless I go to an HBCU, I'm going to be surrounded by people who think less of me because of my melanin.
And here I thought medical school attracted the brightest, most intelligent students?
Sorry for the rant. I really don't care if I'm labelled a racist. Maybe I'll delete this later, but I'm just so fed up.
My best friend I have known and loved like a sister since I was 6 just died at age 32 and I'm devastated. So maybe I'm just a little bit emotional right now.
She was White btw. Funny...I don't ever remember even having a conversation about race with her. It was never an issue.
I date interracially. I date internationally.
But my life experience and reading the news and the horrible and inappropriate comments...it's all just too much.
When a White woman pulls a gun on a Black man in broad daylight in a crowded Walmart parking lot saying she was in fear for her life when witnesses say the man was 10 ft away and only asked for a cigarette light?! When everyday I read about police killing URMs....when everyday people try to justify these senseless murders and victim blame...it's all too much to handle.
It's so sad that on this site, URMs have to "hide." When I post on other forums, someone tries to "out" me and then denigrate my potential based on my GPA (which is not horrible, btw).
URMs who are trying to be supportive message me anonymously out of fear of the bigoted a--holes who post on here.
I really am getting tired of it. (Not the support, I'll take any I can get, anonymous or otherwise; I meant the fact that we have to hide ourselves and not be proud, and have to deal with macro and micro aggressions online and in real life)
Apparently unless I go to an HBCU, I'm going to be surrounded by people who think less of me because of my melanin.
And here I thought medical school attracted the brightest, most intelligent students?
Sorry for the rant. I really don't care if I'm labelled a racist. Maybe I'll delete this later, but I'm just so fed up.
My best friend I have known and loved like a sister since I was 6 just died at age 32 and I'm devastated. So maybe I'm just a little bit emotional right now.
She was White btw. Funny...I don't ever remember even having a conversation about race with her. It was never an issue.
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