[Tracy24224]

I have mixed ancestry: African American, Irish, Italian, and German. I have very light skin and reddish-brown hair. Many people do not realize that I have African ancestry, so I have heard white people say things that they would probably never say in front of me if they knew I was black. The most scaring experience with discrimination happened when I was is 7th grade. It is not the worst thing I have encountered, but it hurt me the most. I went over to a girlfriend’s house after school on a Friday for a slumber party. I had been over there several times, even spent the night there once of twice before. We were in her room and I saw a book about Martin Luther the Protestant, but I thought it was about Martin Luther King Jr. My friend told me who Martin Luther the Protestant was, and that her dad would never let her have a book about Martin Luther King Jr. in the house. This confused me because in my house Martin Luther King Jr is very important. I asked her what her dad had against him, and she said he just didn’t like him. So I waited until her dad got home from work and I asked him why he didn’t like Martin Luther King Jr because I had to know why someone wouldn’t like a man who I regarded as a hero. After I asked the question, a string of obsenities and racial slurs came out of that man’s mouth that I could not believe. I had never heard anything like that – no one was even allowed to swear in my house. One of the things he said was that the n*****s had no business in this country and that they should all go back to Africa. I had enough courage to remind him that most of the Africans were brought here against their will as slaves, and he yelled at me for taking the side of the n*****s and not siding with my own kind. I was so upset that I ran out of the house and went home without taking my things with me. I had heard stories of racist people, but until this point I had never experienced it first hand. Obviously the man had no idea he was talking to someone with African ancestry. When I told my mom what happened she was very angry. She sent my grandfather – who is very obviously black – over to the girl’s house to retrieve my things. I don’t know what occured between them, but we never heard from that family again.

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Name : Tracy24224, Gender : F, Age : 25, City : San Jose, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Engineer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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