RE: MY STORY+ Stories read= Connection

In “The Eyes on the prize, Civil Rights Reader” and in “The Sky is Gray” there are events that can relate to what I went through when I was being judged. In “The Eyes on the prize, Civil Rights Reader” young girls were asked to give their opinions of what dolls represent. Many of the girls preferred to play with the white dolls because they had a presumption of white people being nicer than dark dolls. The girls were not comfortable with their culture being pereceived as the good one because all around them white was what was good. In my story there were people who did not agree with me being into Broadway shows. They believed it was not part of my culture. The two stories tie in because both groups of people had not assimilated to the thought that their culture can be just as great and can fit in at the same ranking as other cultures.



The second story is ”The Sky is Gray”. In this story a young boy is threatened in his workplace and is told to remain in his place. In his time period African Americans were allowed to progress. Progression meant that they wanted to gain knowledge and this was a threat to many White people, something they refused to permit. In my story even though it is a different and more accepting time period , my peers did not want me to deal with a world that was not used to having Hispanics in it. They wanted me to progress but did not see why I would even attempt to do it.



This story made me realize how grateful I am of living in the time period that I live in because I am allowed to progress. I can break barriers and not be afraid of what others think of me because I am able to break all the barriers I need to and can leave my trails for others to learn from. Back then Hispanics were not welcomed on Broadway. Hispanic roles would be played by other Caucasian actors and they would feed off energy through stereotypes. Nowadays Hispanics are welcomed and they can take the character to the place or position where it should be because they are of the background. We are now able to do what we want. The groups that were once considered minorities are now allowed to shine on their own. The time periods has definitely affected Broadway which has affected me. Things will always be changing and Broadway will assimilate. If we want things to assimilate to our needs we must be the ones making the change in our time period.