We had a black president, the first ever, and he was a great candidate, but then a few weeks later I saw a difference in people. Before that I had never witnessed any kind of racism until a girl named Ashley told me I shouldn't be in the country. I will never forget that day because it was the first time in my life that someone said something like that to me. I was in total admiration of the whole situation thinking to myself. Is this what my family has been talking about this whole time? Is this what evil people are really like? Then I asked