The kids teased me because I talked like a white person. This continues to be an issue for Janine. My mother has a PhD and three master's degrees, and she's the one who taught me how to talk. Janine attended Bard College, where she founded her first dance company. Afterwards, she moved to New York City, and performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Dance Theater Workshop, Gowanus Arts Exchange, DanceSpace, Judson Memorial Church and the Apollo Theater.
Millennial racism is extremely complex.
People make assumptions. And black people do it as well as white people. This was a black male who wrote that article. I grew up in the South, I grew up in a segregated area, and I have to tell you, Janine, it's taken a lot of growth for me to be colorblind. That's what I am.