In third-grade Viola says, 'eight or nine white boys in my class made it their daily, end-of-school ritual to chase me like dogs hunting prey' (via TooFab)
."Hell, Oprah knew who I was. Yet, sitting there conversing with Will Smith, I was still that little, terrified, third-grade Black girl."
One of the experiences detailed in the book from when she was in third-grade involves repeated racist abuse. "Eight or nine white boys in my class made it their daily, end-of-school ritual to chase me like dogs hunting prey," she writes. According to USA Today the boys would hurl not only racist slurs but objects like rocks and even bricks.
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