so she went in for an interview and they said colandria, automatically resume in the bin.late in some way shape or form, that is going to be a means of survival for me in the world that has a tendency to view black people as one thing, and we're all multi-dimensional beings. so that fact alone has her striving to be the best in her classes, to be articulate, to make sure she has a level of decorum especially in the presence of other being a black face in a white place, so people think she sells out and that's not what it is, she's just trying to better herself and that's the only way she sees fit. >> trevor: were there any parallels between cocoa's world and your world in real life as a dark skinned black woman. >> i feel as a dark skinned woman if i'm assertive and passionately articulate how i'm feeling, people might see me as being aggressive or i might be called the b word. we might be apprehensive to say how we feel because we might be labeled in man's world. co-decided if i polish the things i say, if i make sure i make the right moves, if i'm in line with the right