“Being in a predominantly black school I only saw people of color, African Americans. I didn’t see that many Indian people or Native American people or mixed people compared to being here. I learned a lot there, and I learned a lot here about diversity and especially stereotypes. I started going to predominantly white schools in sixth grade. I went to Loveland for 6th and 7th grade and I’ve been at Kings since 8th grade. I didn’t really like going to Kings and I still don’t. I’m not going to lie. There is diversity in this school, but not as much as I’d like to see. I personally don’t think that this school is that incorporative when it comes to black history month. At the old school during black history month we had black history programs where every grade from kindergarten to 9th grade would come together. Each class and each grade would make performances around black history. I did a play. I don’t remember what it was. I just remember I was the lead, and her name was Johanna Peabody. Some people recreated the Rosa Parks scene. Some solely based it over Martin Luther King Jr. It was just us celebrating our culture and our minds. You have that whole month to prepare for that program. At the end of the school day it was in the gym and they would show it twice for two or three consecutive days for the students and parents to be able to see. I enjoyed doing that because it was a month where we weren’t tense with tests and stuff. It was more based around us learning culture and watching movies based on slavery, civil rights, digging into the roots. I really enjoyed that because I really take pride in my culture, my roots and who I am. When I first came to Kings someone told me that I act black, and I’m like ‘I don’t act black’ and even to this day I see I’m a little whitewashed. But at the end of the day, I know my roots, and I know where I came from.”