Wednesday, May 21, 2014
My Father's storys
When I went home yesterday after school I decided to ask my dad if he has ever been discriminated against because of his race or if he was ever wrongly treated due to the color of his skin. He told me of the story of the day he went to the district office to have his interview to work at Blach Middle School. He said that he walked into the building and the secretary asked him if he was there for the custodial job. My dad had gone there to get a job as a spanish teacher and the fact that this lady assumed that he was there to be a custodian was offensive. he also told me that if he ever wore a certain color gang member would come up to him and he believed that if someone wearing the same color but was of a different ethnicity they wouldn't have approached them.
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This is interesting because i can relate to your dads second story about gangs and colors.I had the pleasure of living on what is now know as E-Block as a child. Now e-block was all about the color blue and if they saw you even with strip of red they would question you and harass you. As a kid this always happened to me, i remember my mom buying me red converse and i never wore them because i was scared of the gangsters that lived in e-block. E-block by the way is the street off of clark ave, Ednamary way.
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