According to the New York Daily News, 18-year-old Allie Dowdle said her parents ceased their financial support of her education after she notified them that her boyfriend, Michael, is black.
The Tennessee resident said her parents were more than upset with the news and things only escalated from there. Although Dowdle and Michael dated out of sight of her parents, she brought her partnership up again to see if their opinions changed. They responded by stopping all funds which benefited her car, education and phone.
“Over the past year, I’ve fought so hard to make my parents see Michael as a human being instead of just someone who is African American,” she writes. “I’ve advocated as best I know how.” The decision led Dowdle to create a GoFundMe page to support her first-year tuition for college, receiving over $13,000.
