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Growing up in a mostly white suburb of Kansas City, Mo., Kinya Christian thought she fit in -- until second grade. That's when classmates started verbalizing that she was different; she was Black. By middle school, she says, her white friends caught the backlash too; they were called "wiggers" -- whites hanging out with an ugly word often used to mean African-Americans.

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