Monday, July 28, 2008

my life

a incident that i can remember that made me conscious aboout race and what kind of class im in was when i was going out with my friends. It was my friends birthday and we decided to go out to eat so we go to the restaurant and we walk in all the people were looking at us because we were black and hispanic and everybody in the place was mostly white and we all felt weird.As we sat down i felt like all eyes was on us so i look up and it was true so i was alittle up tight because it was like a show. so me and my friends are having a good time laughing when this person that was siting close to us decided to move and told one of the guys that was working there that we was to loud and so he came over to us and told us to be quiet so i was mad and i felt that this would have never happened if it a bunch of whites being loud and laughing.
Another incident was when i was taking my little brother to shcool we got on the bus and the bus driver a white guy was like exuse me arent you going to pay for your son so im like what son and he was the one that got on the bus with you so i got really mad because the had judged me and he didnt know me so i got loud and told him and about himself because i felt offended that i am a man of color and automatically he judged that was my son. It felt like it was a moviei or tv show because that usualy what you see in the media black kids having children young and i felt that he put me in the catogory of media soceity. A time i felt out of place was when i went the store not in my neighborhood but some were else and when i walked in the store they was spanish and i started speaking to them in spanish and all they didi was look at me and i felt out of place because it my kind of scene and they felt that just because i was black that i dont know spanish. so i told them that i was half spanish and they started to treat me different.

1 comment:

Christopher AlmontE said...

Although I heve not been fully in one of these situations I have felt that I have been watched not as a person but as a color.