For many voters Theola Labbé-DeBose nails it. I can be here too is the issue. Or they can be here too.
The other alum was probably asking about her grad school, for heaven's sake. I've been asked the same thing, but I never thought it was because I was in the second or third class that included women at Princeton.
Just relax, lady, and quit thinking that EVERYBODY is thinking about YOU. They aren't, they probably could not care less. Don't worry about it. Just fear God, love your fellow man, and do your work in the station to which you are called.
Actually a White couple with their accomplishments would only have made the papers if the were ratted out by co-conspirators.
"mostly white crowd"
"white counterparts"
"Black Ivy," sisters and brothers"
"accept or reject your race"
"But some of us still decide to go to "white" schools"
"we're looking for an advantage, and we have particular reason to think that we may need one"
"lily-white Princeton"
"I expected to feel equal to my white peers..... But I kept noticing small differences between me and the white students that were hard to ignore: clusters of freshmen who were already friends because they had spent years together at prep schools I had never heard of; questions about my hair, motivated by utter bafflement about the fact that I didn't wash it every day; complete, galling ignorance about Haiti.
"I spent a fair amount of time at the Black Table"
"secretly wondering whether I was being branded a traitor for choosing not to sit with my own people"
I sense a pattern here but I can't quite grasp it...
This woman sure as hell makes me glad that I wasn't born black and achieved sucess. Appears that the chips on her and michelle's shoulders are a millstone around their necks.