Anne Moody was like a lot of children growing up in the 1950’s where they lived with their parents on a plantation. She had a bad relationship at the very first beginning of the book with her Uncle George Lee. He would babysit Anne and her sister Aldine while her parents went to the cotton fields. George Lee was very abusive to Anne. He even set the house on fire and blamed Anne. This resulted in the 4 year getting a terrible spanking from her father. Anne’s father and Mother began to have problems in their relationship. It was not long before Anne’s mother, Toosweet separated from her father Fred and move in with her sister. This arrangement did not last long because her sister’s husband was not too fond of the living situation. However,
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I will be forty years old my next birthday and the most prevalent experiences with race I believed happened after I got grown. Still the only thing I can remember is when I move to Arkansas from Missouri when I was 21 the people down here seem to be prejudice in some ways. I just notice subtle things like when I attended community college in West Memphis, Arkansas. When I was in a business class and we had to get into groups the white adults would get into a group of all whites. They acted like they did not want Black people to interact with them. Also, the teacher of that class an old white woman was racist in my opinion. When a white person raised their hand to ask a question she was nice. Then once a Black person raised their hand to ask another question she was very short answered with them. It became so bad that Black students began to complain and it was not long before the college stopped her from teaching there. I guess most of us Black students refused to let her treat us any less than the white’s students. In a way I feel kind of awkward to compare my life to Anne’s because she experienced way more adversity than me. The things she experienced in childhood like not getting many gifts I can relate to that. My parents were older people and they grew in the era Anne Moody experienced. The way she thought and acted reminded of my parents. They did think getting an apple and orange for Christmas was a bad thing. However, I was on the receiving end and I thought
I will be forty years old my next birthday and the most prevalent experiences with race I believed happened after I got grown. Still the only thing I can remember is when I move to Arkansas from Missouri when I was 21 the people down here seem to be prejudice in some ways. I just notice subtle things like when I attended community college in West Memphis, Arkansas. When I was in a business class and we had to get into groups the white adults would get into a group of all whites. They acted like they did not want Black people to interact with them. Also, the teacher of that class an old white woman was racist in my opinion. When a white person raised their hand to ask a question she was nice. Then once a Black person raised their hand to ask another question she was very short answered with them. It became so bad that Black students began to complain and it was not long before the college stopped her from teaching there. I guess most of us Black students refused to let her treat us any less than the white’s students. In a way I feel kind of awkward to compare my life to Anne’s because she experienced way more adversity than me. The things she experienced in childhood like not getting many gifts I can relate to that. My parents were older people and they grew in the era Anne Moody experienced. The way she thought and acted reminded of my parents. They did think getting an apple and orange for Christmas was a bad thing. However, I was on the receiving end and I thought