I honestly don't think prejudice will ever go away, man. My name is Jean-Pierre Clarence. I was born in the City of Cap-Haitien in the Republic of Haiti, but raised in the town of Miami, State of Florida. I'm a U.S. citizen who's never forgotten his Haitian roots. By the way, I'm also a Werewolf. I have the ability to transform myself into a wolf. The type that used to be common in North America, in fact. It's something I was born with. What can I say? The same way some people are left-handed, or gay, some people are born with the ability to transform themselves into wolfish form while retaining their human intellect. I can't explain it because I'm not a scientist or anything. I'm a business student at Carleton University in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario. I opted to study in Canada after completing two years at Miami-Dade College, because I had to get away from America for a while.
Why did I leave the United States? Let's just say that I pissed off a lot of people. There are quite a few Werewolves in the State of Florida where I grew up. You see, while Werewolves seem to be mostly white in popular culture, they're anything but in real life. Most of the Werewolves I know aren't of European extraction. The gene for lycanthropy is common among people of Native American, sub-Saharan African and Southeast Asian descent. It's rare for a Werewolf to hail from Europe or the Arab world. The gene for lycanthropy is recessive in those parts of the world. At least, that's what my mentor Guillaume Lemieux told me. He's an old Haitian Werewolf I encountered in the Everglades. We hunted pythons together for fun. At the time I met him, Lemieux looked like a tall, forty-something, dark-skinned guy with crazy hair and a thick mustache. It turns out that he's at least a hundred years old. Apparently us Werewolves age much more slowly than normal human beings. Kind of cool, huh?
I came to Carleton University in Canada's capital region expecting to find some tranquility. You see, like any community anywhere, the Werewolf community has its good guys and bad guys. In the State of Florida, a lot of them are starting to get big heads. They think they can run the world. I have always been painfully aware of my limitations, I think my stern Adventist upbringing had something to do with it. A lot of Werewolves think they're better than humans and deserve to rule the world. I ran into a beautiful young Afro-Cuban woman named Teresa Sanchez who actually believed that shit. She came from a long line of Werewolves from the Caribbean. Life isn't easy for Black folk in a predominantly Hispanic nation like Cuba so Teresa grew up exposed to bigotry. It left her with a big chip on her shoulder. Which is a damn shame because she's tall, mighty fine-looking with light brown skin, curly raven hair and light brown eyes. Teresa wanted me to join her club. A gathering of Werewolves with world-domination schemes. Bunch of fools. I turned her down. For this she nearly killed me. If it hadn't been for Lemieux she would have killed me. Lemieux advised me to leave the State of Florida and I took his advice. I guess that's why I'm still alive. Teresa's goons will kill me if they get the chance. I doubt they will ever figure out I went to Canada, though. I took...precautions.
So here I am in the town of Ottawa, Ontario. Man, this town is so different from the beautiful City of Miami where I grew up. And not just because of all the damn hockey lovers. We have hockey teams in the State of Florida too. College teams, professional teams and recreational teams. I feel like a fish out of water in Canada, man. And since there's always a chance that my enemies in Florida might track me down to Ontario, I've got to keep a low profile. Carleton University is an interesting place. I first thought a Canadian University would be totally white and boring as hell. Yet I'm surrounded by East Indians, Africans, Arabs and Chinese students all day long. It's almost as if minorities were half of the student body. Wow. I didn't know Canada had Universities that were this racially diverse. Interesting. Very interesting. And the chicks out here are hot, man. Black women. White women. Hispanic women. Arab women. Indian women. Chinese women. Native American women. And so on. Hot damn. So many hot chicks and so little time. What's a brother to do?