Princess Ogumefu:

The Senator asked about experience and hinted that she wanted to hear from people about personal perspectives in terms of racism and microaggression. For me, through my experience as a Black Irish person, ever since I was younger, the minute you would get into school there was a dynamic where if you were Black you were not really seen as Irish. That was a bigger thing when I was younger and it has got better over the years and I am really happy about that and it is something to be grateful for. It comes with education and the process of learning. Ii is if you bring in traditional food that people have not seen, for example. I remember being asked questions by my teacher when I was in sixth class like "Do you eat the normal food that we eat at Christmas? Do you exchange gifts in the morning?" It drove me insane that this was a question that could be asked. Sometimes it is fine to be asked, "Is your hair real?" I come in with different hair every month and I get that it is irregular, it is not usual. It comes with education and experience and not just education of the older generations. It starts with education of the younger generations-----