I just want to let you know that I feel horrible that you had to go through this..my mother is german but my fathjer is puerto rican and guatemalen..I am light skinned as compared to my brother who is darker then me...many people assume that I am italian until they see my last name...I was told by a prinicipal once at my school that he never realized I was a s***k..(explicitive for a hispanic person)..I was so young and I didn't understand why that was bad???? Needless to sasy my tia went up there and he got into a lot of trouble..but sometimes people will look at me and come up to me and ask is I am "mixed"...I have learned to ignore people and their ignorance..I am too educated to stoop to their level..as my abuelita always said.."I am uneducated and so I have to clean ##### (this wealthy lady) home..they think they are better then me because they have the power and money to command me on what I have to do and the ability to scare me in doing what they say for fear I may lose my job...BUT I do this so that my children and grandchildren can go on to college, become educated, never have to be treated like dirt, and be able to walk with their head up but also know to treat everyone as their brother and sister no matter trheir ignorance." She has since gone back to her country and is very ill....but I remember this as a saying that my mother used to always tell me and that my grandmother used to tell me when I was young. I have since been the first one to go to college and graduate and I will be going onto graduate school...my bf's family is from El Salvador and he too will be the first to graduate college..DON'T LET anyone's ignorance hold you back...and just let their racism make you stronger |