Dorothy Wood
07-23-2006, 07:44 PM
last night I went to a birthday party in humboldt park, which is kind of a bad neighborhood. I was with cordo and her boyfriend. we took the bus and walked a couple of blocks to the house around midnight. while we were looking for the party, a group of young men were across the street and one decided to cross the street and say, "hey girl, hey girl, is this your girl? I just want to talk to you girl" and then he followed us down the street asking me to talk to him. and then asked cordo to talk to him, and then asked for smokes. we couldn't shake him and he was getting all close. finally we found the house and went in, and he didn't follow us. it was fine. I wasn't really too scared, but a little scared because mostly everyone I know has been mugged in the city at some point and I'm just waiting for my turn.
anyway, then today I went to go to mcdonald's (hangover cure) and everyone in there was puerto rican. and looking at me. because I'm not. but that happens all the time because this is a mostly puerto rican neighborhood. so it wasn't weird or anything. my other roommate gets called whitey/white bitch on the regular.
it's just making me really tired. also, one of my students (who is 7 and black) told me how there's a little white girl in her class that gets made fun of all the time for being white and nobody wants to be friends with her.
anyway, I don't know what my point is. I guess it just sucks when people try to intimidate you when you look different. when I was a kid I thought that racism was going to go away and stuff. it didn't.
anyway, then today I went to go to mcdonald's (hangover cure) and everyone in there was puerto rican. and looking at me. because I'm not. but that happens all the time because this is a mostly puerto rican neighborhood. so it wasn't weird or anything. my other roommate gets called whitey/white bitch on the regular.
it's just making me really tired. also, one of my students (who is 7 and black) told me how there's a little white girl in her class that gets made fun of all the time for being white and nobody wants to be friends with her.
anyway, I don't know what my point is. I guess it just sucks when people try to intimidate you when you look different. when I was a kid I thought that racism was going to go away and stuff. it didn't.