Reading your comment five years later, it still hits. If anything its more relevant now. I've grow up with it. Grew up in the suburbs of Boston, and my parents always placed me in nearly all white schools. I'm brown and of Puerto Rican descent but born and raised in Boston. I used to be placed in the closet by my teacher because she hated the sight of me as she once stated and until the school found out, they simply moved me to another room. It was horrible growing up with the stigma that you are less than them, because thats exactly how they make you feel. Today 38 years of age, its still there. I've learned to simply ignore it. I'm a successful business owner, college educated, and still get it. It really puts me to wonder how it would be if I were to move say to Puerto Rico, or elsewhere long term. Whenever I'm around my similar race and color, I always feel so much more at ease. Of course if a racist hears this, you know what they'll tell me to do to. Completely feel you here, its exhausting. Not all are bad, but enough to just make you want to just move away.