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.
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.