Leila Di Giacomo, 13

Leila Di Giacomo, 13

Many people are starting to be re-segregated, and racial stereotypes are starting to come back more and more. I have an Egyptian mother and an Italian father, and over the years, I have noticed a difference in how I have been treated when I am with just my mother, versus just my father. For example, I travel a lot, and some of the things that I have noticed in the way people treat my mother and I in the airports is different. For example, when I am traveling within the United States with just my mother, more often than not we end up getting “randomly selected” to do extra searches. While on the other hand when I am with my father, I rarely get the same kind of searches. I may not have the same kinds of traumatic experiences as other people, and I am very grateful for that, I wanted to share my experience to help raise awareness about BLM.

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