My name is Dena Jarvis. A lot of people think my life is easy. It's really not. It's hard being me. A five-foot-eleven, blonde-haired and green-eyed White chick born into a wealthy family in the city of Houston, Texas. My parents, Liam and Deanna Jarvis of Austin, own controlling interests in some of the biggest oil companies in Texas and around the Globe. I don't know why so many people dislike me. I could care less, really. They disliked me at Saint Marguerite Academy but I still graduated Valedictorian, Class President and Prom Queen.
After sobataging the competition, of course. These days, I'm a first-year student at my new kingdom, Bacchus College. Majoring in psychology. The field of psychology has always appealed to me. The workings of the human mind fascinate me. The people closest to me have no idea who or what I really am. I was born without a conscience. It's so wonderfully liberating. Basically enables me to do whatever I want without feeling guilty. You should try it sometime. You might like it. Follow me as I go on some amazing adventures, folks. You won't regret it. I promise.       My view of the world is wonderfully simple. The strong must dominate the weak. It's not about race, gender or sexual orientation. It's not even about how much money you have or where you live. Simply put, it's universal. It's the natural order of things. I've recently clashed with some folks because of my views. In my World Literature class, this tall Black chick named Nakima Harrison got in my face because she didn't like what I had to say. I told her that I didn't feel the White slave owners of the South were evil people.
They simply did what was seen as acceptable in the society in which they lived. When their society changed, they were forced to change with it. Adaptation is what one must do to survive. When it was seen as okay for Whites to own Black slaves, they did. When it became unacceptable for White people to do that, they changed their ways. It's not about morality. It's about fitting in. Many narrow-minded people rage against gay marriage today. In tomorrow's world, opponents of gay marriage will be seen in the same Iight we see Ku Klux Klan members today. I argued that today's liberals ( many of whom see interracial couples and same-sex marriage as exemplars of improved social and cultural relations in North America ) are truly no more enlightened than their ancestors. They just want to fit in so they appear to espouse the popular views of their day. Personally, I have nothing against people based on their gender, sexuality or skin color. I think all human beings are dumb. And I prove it to myself daily.       Many students in the class were intrigued by my view of the world but Nakima Harrison simply hated my guts. This six-foot-one, somewhat chubby and big-bottomed but pretty-faced Black chick looked like she wanted to strangle me. As if. That truly fascinated me. Well, she had my attention. Believe me, you don't want that. As Nakima Harrison would soon find out. There are six thousand five hundred and twenty six African-American students among Bacchus College's twenty-thousand-person student body. It's considered one of the most diverse private schools in the Boston area. There are eleven hundred and eighty six Asian students and eight hundred and seventeen Hispanic students. Scores one for racial diversity, wouldn't you say? Yet even at this diverse school, students mostly hung out with folks from similar backgrounds. The African-American, Asian and Hispanic students mostly kept to themselves. Students from middle and upper class Irish, Italian, Greek and Dutch families also kept to themselves. Fascinating, isn't it? The more diverse our society becomes, the more people seek to separate themselves from those who don't look, act or think like them. Wow.       I knew Nakima Harrison played a sport, I simply didn't know which one. I went to the Bacchus College Department of Athletics website and checked sport by sport. Now, this was really time consuming. I bypassed the men's varsity sports teams such as Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Football, Ice Hockey, Golf, Swimming, Wrestling, Volleyball, Lacrosse and Tennis. This left the women's varsity sports teams. I checked the rosters of the Softball, Basketball, Cross Country, Ice Hockey, Gymnastics, Field Hockey, Swimming, Lacrosse, Tennis, Volleyball and Golf teams. Amazingly, I couldn't find her. The broad was nowhere to be found.
How could this be? I looked her up online and found out she wasn't on any of the women's sports teams at Bacchus College. Rather, she was a grappler on the men's Wrestling team. Wow. I knew of female wrestlers on men's teams but mostly at the high school level. Nakima Harrison was wrestling for Bacchus College in the 250-pound weight class. And apparently, she'd been quite successful. Enough to earn honorable mentions at the NCAA Division One tournaments two years running. Small wonder Nakima was so outspoken in class. She'd been a tough bitch her whole life. I clicked on her online bio and learned that she used to be the captain of the men's wrestling team at her old high school, Saint August Academy. Interesting. Very interesting. She'd be one tough cookie to break but eventually I'd get it done. I always did.       I began following her around, and learned who her friends were. Nakima Harrison mostly associated with other young African-American students at Bacchus College. The sons and daughters of prominent Black families. She came from good stock. A bona-fide BAP. Black American Princess. Her father, Salim Harrison was the Chief Financial Officer of Harrison, Dale & Armand, the largest privately owned shipping company in New England. Operating since 1979.
The guy was worth about thirty million. Her mother Selena Johnson Harrison was a professor of business at Suffolk University. Her younger brother Jericho plays football for the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. Her older brother Jerome was a cadet at West Point Military Academy. Nakima was no slouch either. She belonged to various organizations such as the National Organization For Women, the United States Girls Wrestling Association, the NAACP and of course a certain internationally well-known African-American Sorority. Alpha Kappa Alpha. Wow. This young woman was a genuine African-American princess. Her father Salim Harrison graced the front page of the Boston Globe last year. He was giving financial advice to the state of Massachusetts first African-American Governor. Basically advising him on how to help Beantown beat the Recession. Simply amazing.
Well, this was definitely going to be a challenge for yours truly. Nakima Harrison was tall, beautiful, athletic and wealthy. And she came from a prominent family. I had to find some way of getting at her. Usually, a strong woman's most vulnerable point was her heart. What kind of men did Nakima Harrison date? I had seen her walking around campus with Theodore Mathis, star of the Bacchus College men's Cross Country team. He was a tall, good-looking young Black man. Kind of reminds me of that African-American actor Taye Diggs.
The way she was looking at him, I knew Nakima Harrison wanted a piece of his action. Unfortunately, Nakima Harrison was so damn butch-looking. Most guys automatically assumed she was gay. With her unruly hair, masculine clothes and near total lack of feminity, I wonder where they'd get that impression. Now, I know lots of gay and bisexual women who are very feminine and sexy. Butch-looking chicks, both straight and gay, tend to appear queer even to people who have zero gaydar. I think I found a chink in Nakima Harrison's armor, folks. Like the predator that I am, I decided to exploit it.       One day after class, I approached Nakima Harrison with an olive branch. I apologized for my extreme views, and told her I said what I said simply to get attention. Nakima looked at me sternly and told me what I said bothered her. She thought I was a closet racist. I was seriously pissed. I'm evil down to my core. And I delight in it. However, I don't think I'm a racist. I hate everyone equally. Simply put, I enjoy destroying people's lives. Doesn't matter if they're Black, White, Asian, Middle-Eastern or Hispanic. If they get in my way, I step on them. It's my way of doing things. You either take down obstacles or they will take you down. That's the world according to me.
I swore to Nakima Harrison that I wasn't a racist. I hate just about everyone regardless of race. I didn't tell her that, of course. I told her I was set in my ways but willing to change. And to prove it to her, I invited her to lunch. She hesitated. I smiled beatifically at her. She was still hesitant. I told her that people with differing views only learned when exposed to those different from themselves. It's the only way society has ever progressed. Nakima nodded at that. I knew I'd get her attention by saying something so cliche, oops, I mean deep. Nakima accepted my invitation. We went to have lunch at Au Bon Pain since neither of us could stomach campus food.       As we shared a meal, I learned quite a bit about her. Nakima Harrison was very smart, thoughtful and a very interesting person. She told me her father Salim Harrison introduced her to wrestling when she was younger and she'd been in love with the sport ever since. Growing up with two rough and tumble brothers, she turned out to be quite the tomboy. She loved wrestling for Bacchus College and saw herself as a role model for young women athletes. However, there was one area of her life that she felt was lacking. I gently probed her for an answer. She hesitated, then basically spilled her beans.