Her mom tells her that it is in human nature, her dad says to stand up, her grandma wants her to ignore it. How are you supposed to ignore something that seems to control your life? Prejudice, her whole family faces it. Being half black isn’t easy, even in America. Everyone seems to blame her, her sisters, her mother for the war going on some call it World War Two, but Joy calls it ‘Stupid’.
Her father is constantly told he shouldn’t have married a black woman, that he is to good for a colored lady, that she ruined the family by only barring little black baby girls; no boys, no white children. Joy and her twin sister Faith may only be twelve years old but they face hardships every day, it’s not so bad once they get to school but the walk there
Her father is constantly told he shouldn’t have married a black woman, that he is to good for a colored lady, that she ruined the family by only barring little black baby girls; no boys, no white children. Joy and her twin sister Faith may only be twelve years old but they face hardships every day, it’s not so bad once they get to school but the walk there