It’s a little hard not to like Tavia Patterson. (Pronounced “Tay-vee-ah”. I called her “Tah-vee-ah” when her roommate first\u00a0introduced us back in our freshman days) She’s fun, bubbly and her personality simply reaches out to you. Not to mention it’s almost impossible to miss her when she loudly calls out to you from across the concourse. Having spent three years with her, I have come to admire her for one of her strongest character traits; Tavia is bold and very outspoken. It was no surprise, then, when I found out that she had managed to convince a few (40-\u00a0odd) students\u00a0to wear t-shirts with “Black Student,” “White Student,” Latino\/Latina,” and “Asian Student” boldly displayed on the front.<\/p>\n
For a whole week, we wore the shirts all day\u00a0except to\u00a0sports and stuff,\u00a0just trying to show people that it is more than just\u00a0the label or how people might view you.\u00a0Like when\u00a0we\u00a0go out in\u00a0public people\u00a0don’t always\u00a0see me as\u00a0white, but they might see somebody as “Oh let’s go stand behind the Asian in line,” versus the person in a red shirt or something like that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The project also included a video:<\/p>\n
Tavia is a little modest about having the guts to spark up such a controversial topic on campus. She says of the whole experience:<\/p>\n
It was just a really fun way to\u00a0get beyond the labels that we subconsciously place on each other and realize that we are all people, we all have things in common.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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