Monday, September 27, 2010

question #2

Tales that were told in my family that back in the day my grandmother who is black,but some might confuse her as white was not able to do as many things as a young girl!! During her time slavery wasn’t around I would per say but I would say it was always the black man working for the white man .My grandmother who is black said a lot of people would mistake her for white, she didn’t have a lot of black friends because that always thought she was white. The tale is that shew had to face a lot of different people words and ways they looked at her because people didn’t accept her for being black,but looking white. My grandmother brothers and sisters all favored her but and she has three brothers and three sisters so they also had to go threw this time were people looked down on them. People back then didn’t care if you were children are not if you didn’t look like them then you are not equal. The lesson that came from this is that my grandfather is black like night and my grandmother is black like day and my two uncles all but one look alike,my oldest uncle favor my grandmother and my next uncle favor me and my daddy favor me. So a lot of times people say that there not brothers because of there skin but it doesn’t matter there brothers and look at each other as equal,no matter what my grandparents loved all 3 kids,so did my great-great grandmother even though people thought my grandmother was adopted.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Makayla,

    What your grandmother went through, many of use cannot imagine. Luckily, we live in a time where this treatment has vanished to nil. However, there are still some cases of this. Next time, tell me what point you are trying to make in connection with this essay.

    Ms. C

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