Black Maids Research Paper

The day I got papers stating that I was being sued by my maid was the worst day of my life or so I though. It wasn’t the initial day but the days that come after. After receiving those papers, I wasn’t as concerned as I am now because although I was shocked that I received them, I figured at least I had the support of my family. Oh god, how I was wrong. The lawsuit came from none other than my own maid, Ablene Cooper. Cooper, formerly, took care of my daughter and worked for my brother as a nanny and a maid. I never would have expected her to file a lawsuit against me for the book that had nothing to do with her. It is and still is a work of pure fiction that portrays the lives of black maids during the 1900s. It had nothing to do with her because it is and will ever be a fictional book, made to portray the …show more content…
In all my life, I would have never imagined that a book would tear this family apart to the point that aunts, uncles, and etc. don’t even want to talk to each other. To me, it’s insane that something so small and irrelevant would place us at each other’s throat. To me and my father, this court case is going to be a disappointment for Cooper because she wouldn’t win the court case. He goes to the point where he states ."Ablene will probably be the last one to get a nickel out of it,"(ABCNEWS). He choses to remain on a neutral side though, probably to avoid the mess the book has created within the family. At this point, I’m tired of stating and talking about how it’s a fictional book, that’s not based on real life. My family and I are very tired of this lawsuit, its have caused me tremendous stress and have strain my relationship with my husband. With all the negative attention, it isn’t helping my daughter either. The stress from the attention on the lawsuit is starting to show within her