gael-garcia: Tessa Thompson photographed by Ramona Rosales for Buzzfeed She begged her mom to transf
gael-garcia: Tessa Thompson photographed by Ramona Rosales for Buzzfeed She begged her mom to transfer her to the public Santa Monica High School after feeling trapped in private school. “I was one of four kids that were anything but white,” she says. Though the public school had 4,000 students and was incredibly diverse, it was also plagued by self-segregation, which she responded to by helping found a “racial harmony” club with older classmates her freshman year. “It was a weekend sleepover where 20 kids from each racial group would come together and dialogue over racial stereotypes,” Thompson explains. Her first year, she joined the club as a black student, the second as Latina. “I tried to do it my third year as a white person and they wouldn’t let me,” she says, laughing. -- source link
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