"A woman stood toe-to-toe with me, not moving. "Nigger!" she shouted in my face again and again. She appeared to be a little older than my mother. Her face was distorted with rage. "Nigger bitch. Why don't you go home?" she lashed out at me. "Next thing, you'll want to marry one of our children."" - page 111
I picked this passage to write about because I find it kind of disturbing. The fact that they had to face torment every single day from their peers is already disturbing in general. A lot of children get tormented by peers so I think it would be easier to ignore if I was Melba and I was getting tormented by people my age. In this passage though, she actually gets tormented by a mother and I think it would be harder to ignore if a grown woman who has children of her own was tormenting me. Especially if she continued to call me those vile things. The thing that disturbs me the most is if I was a girl growing up in Little Rock, Arkansas in this time period would I be one of the people harassing these 9 children. I wonder if my views would differ in any way. I obviously hope not but it is hard to tell how I would think if everyone around me were really big segreationists.
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