Student raises more than $10,000 after parents 'cut her off' over black boyfriend
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https://www.gofundme.com/put-allie-in-college-fight-racism
Allie Dowdle says her parents refused to give her any more cash saying they didn't approve of the relationship.
Writing on her GoFundMe page, Allie said: "As I am 18, my parents have chosen to no longer support my future, stripping me of all my resources."
The 18-year-old's dad has denied that the issue is about race.
Allie says she and Michael Swift dated for around a year after first telling her parents but that the issue came to a head before Christmas after Michael approached her parents again.
She claims after that conversation, she was cut off by her parents and no longer has access to her personal savings, car and phone and can't afford to pay for her education any more.
"My dad did not give me an option: he told me that I was not allowed to see Michael ever again," she says.
"Why? Strictly because of skin colour. It wasn't a quiet 'no,' either.
"I'll never forget the yelling my parents did, when they expressed how disappointed they were in me, that I could do so much better.
"I did not know what to do. I couldn't comprehend how someone could be seen as less because of pigment. I still can't comprehend it, and I never will be able to.
"How could my love for another person be wrong because of his skin colour?
"And why would that make me unworthy of a future I've worked so hard for?
"Because my parents have listed me, their own daughter, as someone who is not worthy of their time and money, I have turned to the public for support."
Bill Dowdle says that his daughter's comments are a "justification" giving her the moral high ground and said that he and his wife would accept anyone their daughter dated.
But he said there were "issues" involved with biracial dating in the south of America and he'd cut his daughter off because she'd started dating black student Michael Swift in secret.
"[She's spoiled] and it became obvious that she needed to go out in the world and grow up," he told the New York Daily News.
And not everyone has been supportive on the student's crowdfunding page.
Susan Martin wrote: "Dating a black man and sending a privileged white girl to college who can't get a job because her parents took away her car is absolutely ridiculous. Take a bus."
Meanwhile Marissa Kizer wrote: "Sending a white girl from a middle-class family to college is not fighting racism. In fact, expecting to avoid work, student loans, etc. and be treated like a hero for dating a black guy seems pretty racist to me."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38606507/student-raises-more-than-10000-after-parents-cut-her-off-over-black-boyfriend
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As I am 18
Nothin else to talk about..... ? better jump off the porch. -
That brotha looks happy to be with that basic white ?
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Happiness isnt a color
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lmao... that ? made this ? up.... While I don't doubt that her parents hate black people, them not paying for her ? is not the result of that hate. She played them people out of $10k. Get it how you live, tho. Like this ? that was posted in that other thread..
https://youtu.be/Xub8nqHVZ1g
white people got the WOAT noses.... -
? is ugly af
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Love has no color but I don't really a prove of interacial dating I'm just old fashioned, I am black if anyone must know I don't hate anyone who does itbut I feel the same way about homosexuality, she is 18 and is an adult, her parents are no longer obligated to support her, just like if maybe she chose to major in economics and they wanted her to major in telecommunications and they cut her off based upon her decision, to me it's equally the same
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it possible her parents may have refused to pay for her to go to a certain school. for example is dude is going to Memphis and she always talked about going to U of T at Knoxville and then started dating dude and said im going to Memphis I can see that. I probably do the same to keep my daughter from chasing some lil dude but the story doesn't say that. she might be so spoiled that the lil chick ? up in school and now gotta go to some community college and her parents are like hell no u ? up all that private school money so u can go work somewhere and pay ur own way to community college.
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she saw that ? hit 10K and was like...
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Gofundme page tho?
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MasterJayN100 wrote: »Happiness isnt a color
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? , a whole lot of white ? would've dropped him in a second or kept it on the low to keep their family's resources on deck. Little ? better wife that lol.
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In todays climate you still need help even after you turn 18...society is set up to have you starting out in the negative now.
But white folks hatred for ? is so great theyll jeopardize their own kids future to spite them for liking black people.
Hell they'll vote thier own Healthcare away to spite the black president that gave it to them in favor of a white one thats gonna take it away -
And michael swift look old af
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smh...white ppl problems. miss me w/ that ?
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White chicks be schemin..
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So does he play pro soccer?
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Coming soon to lifetime
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He plays for the Philadelphia Union, a MLS club I'm guessing.
Lol, nope, I was wrong as ? . Philadephia Union Academy isn't MLS. He plays for Clemson now.
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I don't trust anything on GoFundMe, nadda
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Its crazy white people will disown there kid for dating black
Lmaooo cold blooded -
Boo boo ? get a student loan like the rest of us
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Welcome to the real world no more daddy and mommy money
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I hope she gets nothing so we can see if she's really about it.
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By 18 I was adamant about getting my own money. *Camron voice* she'll be aight
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Caprese Salad is his favorite snack.... Yea she in a relationship with a white girl not a ?