A Bisexual Haitian In Miami
 

Family, what's up? Ares Jean-Baptiste is the name, and according to my parents, and the Miami-Metro police department's traffic cops, I'm a bad apple. I don't think of myself as a troublemaking sociopath, rather, I envision myself as a free spirit. You see, a long time ago I figured out one of the great secrets of the universe. Life is funny, you see. I was born in Dade County, Florida, but I grew up all over the beautiful Sunshine state. My mother, Ashley O'Connor, is originally from the City of Galway, somewhere in Ireland. My father, Bernard Jean-Baptiste, is originally from the island of Haiti. That means I'm mixed, bitches, but I consider myself Black through and true. Well, the Obama brand of Blackness anyway.

Last summer, I turned eighteen and decided to have myself some fun before school started. I didn't know that this was going to turn out to be one incredible summer. After graduating from Miami's Edison High School, the last thing on my mind was more school. Of course, my father, Haitian émigré and distinguished graduate of Florida Agricultural