What Liberia Means to Me

My Liberian heritage has always been a source of pride for me even as a child.  When people would see my fair skin and smooth curls, they would quickly inquire about where I was from or where my parents were from.  I would just as speedily reply that I was Liberian and then wait for the shocked expressions to follow. 

“But how could you be African? You don’t look African!”  More often than not, this was the reaction I received.

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