The whole town hates me what to do
I as you guys may have read from my post I live in a very small southern town(I shudder to think of myself as a "southerner"). I am smart and what people call a social butterfly. I usually get along with everyone even if they don't all get along lol. When I was going to school I wasn't very popular amongst the students. The black children said I acted white because I used proper grammar, didn't dress like them(a lot of them were poorer than me and they couldn't afford nice clothes),refused to act ignorant,liked to read for pleasure and was very openminded(I got in trouble in 6th for telling my sex ed teacher that I was totally pro choice and why hey she started it by pushing her prolife views on me). The white kids were raised by racist families and were taught not to talk to me because I was black. Well I needless to say I hated school and couldn't wait to be done so I could go to college. I graduated,went to college and now I am back home until I can find a job. Now that I'm back whenever we go into town I see old classmates who I haven't seen in almost 10 years.You would think we had all grown up now and put childness behind us right? Nope not them there was one girl who use to bark at me and my friend back in high school (no joke growl and bark) she saw me in walmart and she got down(her 4 kids were watching her) and started to bark at me like she did in high school. Another time I was at the mall 30 min from my town and I saw one of my classmates working in bath and body works. She was very rude and tried to make a comment about me paying with a check instead of a debit card.Then she added that I still talk white and think I'm white. The worst part about my classmates acting like this is that THEY HAVE KIDS OF Their OWN! I could keep giving examples but then this post would be a book.My mom says their is a lot of mentally ill people in this town several people have been put away. So here are my questions : Why do some of my classmates (especially the black ones) act in this manner I mean shouldn't we all have grown up by now? Have any of you ever expierenced anything like this when you go back to your hometowns?