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Excerpt: Losing The Race Written by satanexpress, on 12-04-2001 11:55 I stumbled on this article blindly,  and not really sure what i was reading until I finished the first paragraph, which caught my attention and i couldn't stop reading. I am a young black female part creole on my father's side. I was raised in Inglewood west of los angeles considered the ghetto to many . And attended inglewood high for no more than year until finally moving to westhollywood in an upperclass neighborhood in the hills and going to hollywood high a more diverse school.I finished my courses but never graduated i completed homestudies and i recieved my diploma where i now attend community college to go on to majoring in film. That's little of my background i chose to share for a clear explanation on the alienation i endured from most of my "people" coming up.Mainly in Inglewood,yes i grew up in a prodimantly black city but I did not turn out like the majority.I'm very light, tall, with long straight hair , i talk in a conservative manner, i love paintings, books, and di nero movies and for this i was ostracized. I didn't grow up on hip-hop nor do i choose to listen to alot of it now.But I think the whole time there i felt i knew more about who i was , where i came from, and what those who came before me fought for than that whole school. Reading this book and this article enforced this idea and i no longer feel ashamed of it. I'm not white or spanish , nor do i have the desire to be so. But for a long time i was accused of this very thing because i was not "represanting". That much is true i refuse to represant a culture that brings my people further from our potential. And make no mistake i'm not bashing hip-hop there is some good out there its just sad that its mixed in with the hype....