As the summer came to an end and the fall started to stumble its way into our lives we received a letter. I was sitting at the table with Little man, Cassie, Christopher John, and Mama, while Big Ma took a nap and Pa was cleaning up from the long day of work. With letter in hand trembling, pa walks in and immediately seems worried,”what's wrong,” pa asked with a shudder in his voice. “Stacy had scored such a high grade on the aptitude test that at the school we have no teachers qualified enough to teach him properly.” Ma said with a solemn tone. “Well that’s great our boy is a genius,” pa remarked with slight sarcasm. Little man piped in,“Ma why you so sad then?” “Cause baby that means stacy ‘ll have to transfer to ‘nother school, and the only other school there is close ‘nough to walk to is the white school.” ma said with a comforting lull, yet you could still hear the slight sound of a mother worrying in her speech. “So what am I going to do for schooling?””the white school accepted your application.”
This sharp pain in my head started to creep its way around my brain as I tried to understand what she meant by “accepted” into a white school. “The board said that your scores are so good they will overlook your race.” ma said slowly as though she was reading it of the page of the letter for the first …show more content…
The day after the last of the cotton was picked, which happened to land on a monday, I went to the bus stop and waited and waited and waited. When the sun was right above me I knew the bus wasn’t coming, so I walked to school with slight disappointment in myself for not walking to school earlier. Upon arrival the principal was waiting for me in a chair outside. “Dirty nigger” he breathed under his breath as I walked up to him, promptly he said “you are late and in big trouble detention is being held in twenty minutes.” this time meaning for me to hear
This sharp pain in my head started to creep its way around my brain as I tried to understand what she meant by “accepted” into a white school. “The board said that your scores are so good they will overlook your race.” ma said slowly as though she was reading it of the page of the letter for the first …show more content…
The day after the last of the cotton was picked, which happened to land on a monday, I went to the bus stop and waited and waited and waited. When the sun was right above me I knew the bus wasn’t coming, so I walked to school with slight disappointment in myself for not walking to school earlier. Upon arrival the principal was waiting for me in a chair outside. “Dirty nigger” he breathed under his breath as I walked up to him, promptly he said “you are late and in big trouble detention is being held in twenty minutes.” this time meaning for me to hear