Both my mother and father are originally from the Côte d’Ivoire. My mother was from the economic capital, Abidjan while my father was born in the town of Toumodi. My mother was a elementary school teacher and my father was a law school student before they both made the decision to move to the United States in search of a better life. They met each other while in the United States and in 2000, I was born. Growing up, I felt different from both my peers and my family. At my elementary school, how I acted and perceived the world was different from the other black students. I didn’t understand it at the time, but later I recognized that the reason I felt different was because of the fact that both of my parents were immigrants and I was raised
