‘I was constantly bullied’: being a Black student in one of Indiana’s whitest districts

Hallie Watson: ‘I quickly realized Carmel wasn’t a place for people like me to prosper.’ Photograph: Tom Silverstone

I don’t remember the first time I realized that I was different from my white classmates. I don’t even remember the first time I understood what race was. But I remember the first time I was made to hate myself for being Black.

I was 10 years old when I was called the N-word for the first time.