By Monica Miller | June 23, 2019
She opened up about it was difficult to fit in, and that she didn’t feel like the black community made her feel welcome.
“Growing up in Toronto, I was black. I’m a black woman. I moved to the south, to North Carolina, right at the start of high school, so at 14, and there it was like…who do you choose?” Ayesha shared that in Canada was different. “I always loved every part of me.” But in North Carolina, she felt presure to associate with people based on he roots.
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“It seemed like my own community didn’t want to, like, wrap their arms around me and embrace me. That kind of hurt.”
