Being African American has been an eye-opener for me. My skin has opened my eyes to see that no matter how chocolate my skin is or how long my hair is, I will never be treated equally. If you don’t know by now what I am talking about, well here it is… Racism. Racism has been around for a long time and I have never thought a 10-year-old African American girl would have to experience it.
Coming from a state that beautiful brown skin is everything, to a town that has no pigment was very new. On the road to her family’s new home, they stopped at a gas station near Tulsa. Traveling with her Mom and Uncle who was yellow skin, this little dark girl decided that she was going to go into the miniature store. At this moment something went wrong the store clerk called the little dark girl a word she had never heard before. The clerk kept yelling at her to leave his store calling her a “porch monkey”, then sent her outside where he said she belonged. Now her uncle is in the store trying to figure out why his niece is crying, not knowing it was because the clerk just called his niece a racial slur. Getting all the help he can get from the store worker …show more content…
Everyone that she is surrounded by now doesn’t find her beautiful chocolate skin, beautiful. The little girl had to learn that she was tough and she didn’t care what anyone had to say about her even if they were harsh words. The little dark girl learned that no matter what she did she would be judged; By the way, she did sports, danced and even the way she looked. A few weeks into the new school a teacher said to her “she was going to become nothing, and her kind was stupid”. After that day the little dark girl made it her mission to prove her plump, cherry-cheeked teacher wrong. The rest of her school year she had the highest grades at that school that made the teachers so
Coming from a state that beautiful brown skin is everything, to a town that has no pigment was very new. On the road to her family’s new home, they stopped at a gas station near Tulsa. Traveling with her Mom and Uncle who was yellow skin, this little dark girl decided that she was going to go into the miniature store. At this moment something went wrong the store clerk called the little dark girl a word she had never heard before. The clerk kept yelling at her to leave his store calling her a “porch monkey”, then sent her outside where he said she belonged. Now her uncle is in the store trying to figure out why his niece is crying, not knowing it was because the clerk just called his niece a racial slur. Getting all the help he can get from the store worker …show more content…
Everyone that she is surrounded by now doesn’t find her beautiful chocolate skin, beautiful. The little girl had to learn that she was tough and she didn’t care what anyone had to say about her even if they were harsh words. The little dark girl learned that no matter what she did she would be judged; By the way, she did sports, danced and even the way she looked. A few weeks into the new school a teacher said to her “she was going to become nothing, and her kind was stupid”. After that day the little dark girl made it her mission to prove her plump, cherry-cheeked teacher wrong. The rest of her school year she had the highest grades at that school that made the teachers so