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My Memoir of My Equality Experiences

April 25, 2016
By raque BRONZE, Houston, Texas
raque BRONZE, Houston, Texas
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When I was around 9 years old, I would play soccer on Saturdays with a league with my brother, in which I was the only girl in the team. However, I did experience things, like being looked down for being a girl and playing in an all-boys soccer team. But this experiences was one that change my way of thinking of other people around me. Anyways this happened on a weekend before Easter and it was one of the most important to remember, because it was the one of the many times that my family and I experience inequality. This happen after my brother and I finished our first game of the day, and my uncle told the team, “ HEY! Guys lets go check out that garage sale! “Then we all answered in a choir “YES!” As soon as we got there my brother and I went to check out the collectable cars that the owner had since 1990’s. When we got to the table were all of the cars where at and the owner of the house was a white male that didn’t think we spoke English. While my brothers and I were looking through the cars, the owner turn around and looked at his daughter and told her to ,”keep an eye on those little Mexicans because we were going to steal his cars”. Fortunately my uncle over heard the man and told him that, “there was no need for someone to look over us that he was making sure that we were not going to taking anything”. While my uncle was saying this the man turn and got a really bright red, then my uncle finished up by saying “that we were no little Mexicans but Americans and that we will not want any of his cars!” Then the man was so surprise that my uncle reacted like that, also embarrassed and he gave us all of his cars and didn’t stop apologizing



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