I was a little girl and my grandmother had just moved down to north Carolina from new York. She was a very proper woman whom always made sure she would speak proper English and that I would too. I witnessed her applying for a job over the phone. I could hear her conversation because she had the manager on speaker. The job she was applying for was a communications job and the manager seemed very interested in my grand mother. When complementing her on good her skills were the manager told her to come in the next day to start work right away. When going in to work al lady (whom was the manager) stopped my grandmother and asked her how could she help her. My grandmother proudly and sophisticatedly stated that she was there for the job. She explained how she was cressie mears and how they had just spoken on the phone the previous day . the women looked at my grandmother in disgust and stated that their must have been a mistake because the woman that she hired was a white woman. The white lady assumed that my grandmother that was a white lady because of her fluent speech. Very disappointed my grandmother walked out of the building. I find that I was very distyrbed by that even though I didn’t understand what was going on. While in class one day presenting a powerpoint, my teacher commented by saying that I spoke very fluently. I was offended , because then I thought of my grandmother and thought what if iwas white, then would she have said the same thing?
