My life

Hello everyone!!!!

Hope everyone is doing well and looking forward to spring.

Well I hope you have your cup of tea/ coffee or whatever it may

be that you drink because today I pick up from where I stopped

yesterday. First off some of the pictures in this post depict some

of the work that my family and I have done throughout the years.

 

Some of the things that I dealt with in school were kids not

wanting to swing on a swing that mexicans had touched, not wanting

to sit next to you. Things got a little better in middle school. In

high school things were bad again there were teachers that were

prejudice. Teachers that tried to fail you in their classes even though

all your work was turned in with an average of a B grade. Can you

believe that my Junior year I failed art well according to the teacher.

She said that I hadn't done a lot of the work which was produced to

her with the grades that she had given me written on the work. Luckily

my mother took action. Sorry to say that teacher moved on the next

year. It was action taken to late that my Senior year I became

very guarded and decided not to take another art class. My Junior

year was the worst. There were a couple of upper classmen that

were very cruel. Mind you that there was a group of us that were

really good friends. The group mainly consisted of kids that were

American of Mexican decent with the exception of a couple of

girls that were caucasian. I was so glad to be done with school.

 

Don't think that I was a perfect kid I was far from it. I did some real

dumb things while growing up. I just wasn't dealing with things that

were happening at school. I had an aunt that was always telling my

dad lies about me which I was always in trouble.

I got married to man that loved me for me and never saw my

skin of color but his dad was different. My husband is caucasian.

My father-in-law always had some Mexican joke to tell and would

let me know how he hated Mexicans. I also had a cousin that hated

that I didn't marry anyone of my race especially because she was

always trying to set me up with guys of my race.

Three children came along and my father-in-law showed favoritism

to the child that looked more like his dad. The other two kids could

see it. Not an easy thing to deal with so very hard to protect my

children from racism when it is happening in your own family. Again

my guard up.

I have been lucky to have some friends that I have made along

the way in my life that see me as a human and not see my skin

color. I have also had one person from the past that has apologized

for how they treated me back when we were in high school. That must

of been real hard for her. At the time she apologized it really threw me

off and I didn't know what to say. She is a bigger and better person than

I could ever be because that took some guts. I truly appreciate that she

she felt she had to do that.

Well it's been another long one so I will stop here and pick up

again tomorrow.

Until my next post Have A Splendid Day!!!!!!!