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My life as a first-generation Cameroonian-American with intersecting identities caused me to have a very unique upbringing. Growing up, my family moved around frequently. When I was 11 years old, my father shared that he found a new job, so we would be moving to the country of Oman. At that age, I had no idea where or what the Middle East really was. I was stuck in my bubble and I was unwilling to see things from a different perspective. After living in the Middle East for a few years and moving back to the United States, my perspective had completely shifted.
Coming from a family of immigrants allowed me to develop a unique perspective at an early age. Throughout my youth, I never quite felt like I belonged. I often found myself experiencing what W.E.B. Dubois coined as the ‘double consciousness’, except I was experiencing a triple consciousness. I felt like I was torn between three different cultures, and never really fit in anywhere. It was a journey trying to navigate white America while not quite feeling "Black enough" or "Cameroonian enough." As I got older, I started to develop a deep pride in my Blackness and in my heritage. My experiences with anti-black racism made me take a more vested interest in studying, learning and examining both anti-black racism and white supremacy (or what I would now like to refer to as "white perversion") in order to dedicate my life to dismantling them.
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