Ack! I hate being sick!!!!! I swear it feels like someone kicked me in the chest cuz of all the coughing I've been doing. Gross! Anywho, I went to a luncheon today for Black UCB Alumni, and I have mixed emotions about the day. It was so wonderful to meet people from all walks of life, willing to share about their struggles and successes. I mean, there were people that attended and graduated from Cal in the 1940s! Amazing. They talked about the politics they had to encounter during their time there (i.e. racism, etc.). But then there were the bougie (sp?), "I'm too good to talk to you" kind of folks in the house ass well. I was sitting next to this woman and she had me dying the whole time. She was so real. She was a graduate of the class of 1971. She told me about how she was supposed to have been done in 1961, but she took time off to get married, have three kids, then got divorced. It was so cool to be around such positive people of color. But back to the bougie (sp?), there was one particular table that stood out to me. Everyone was of a lighter complexion and they only associated amongst themselves. It's amazing how people still by into that brown paper bag theory. I mean they would hardly look into anyone else direction. The woman that was sitting next to me was telling me how she gets so sick of interacting with people that are so full of themselves. I concur wholeheartedly.