When Bryn Mawr School sophomore Kellsie Lewis and a couple of her friends asked a white student to help them learn a new Tik Tok dance during their English class, the response they got felt like a gut punch.

“She told us to ‘move like you’re picking cotton,’” said Lewis, a 15-year-old Black student who had transferred in sixth grade from a predominantly African American city school to the private, all-girls Bryn Mawr.

“I was thinking of all the analogies she could’ve used, and she picked that one,” Lewis told The Brew. “I felt ashamed, looking back on it, for not saying anything at the time.”

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