Gissel Estevez

Oral History Of Fatima Sosa　

Fatima Sosa is a 14 year-old girl. She was born in Mexico and came to the U.S when she was 3 years old. We did this beautiful interview at home room time in school, the season was spring but for some reason it was snowing. We dis

cussed the topic race and racism.

　
Well for me the U.S having its first black president is an honor and also a big change, because the president has always been white and now having a black president means a lot cuz now you can see that black people, color people, Latin people, have voices in government.

The place I grew up in was in Mexico, for like 3 years.It was kind of rough cuz I had to travel a lot with my family; but then, once I got to the U.S, I started working with my family, going to school

and then kept growing up in Harlem.

When I was growing up there was some racism. You can see how other people that new English treated the people that didn’t know English kind of bad, and call them stupid and stuff and its just rough.

The people that were racist made other people feel kind of not important in the world, cuz of the way they treated me and the way they treated others. It makes us seem like we are just nobody in the world. I think racism has been such a big problem or issue in this world cuz you can go through a lot of stuff, depending on your race or religion or your culture and stuff. You have to have the guts to be able to go thought all of that.

I think till this day there is still racism because of different opinions and different actions, like basically different opinions cuz that’s what separates people from each other, and that’s what separates us all.

Well in some way I have been a races cuz like I said everybody has different opinions and I guess that makes us go against each other .

I think people are racist because let's say they don’t like the way people are because of their personal opinion, or because, I don’t now,they dont like there race or where they come from.

The word race for me means where you came from, your background, who you are.

People sometimes consider themselves superior. Well, probably because they have a better education than us or um more than other people, or a better job or better economic situation and that’s why they think they more important than others.

My personal opinion of people that judge you because of your skin color is bad cuz, um there is no reason you should judge people by the color neither for there aspects .

Some obstacles that people from different races sometime have to go though are mental abuse and um different things.

If I had to tell people this is the way to overcome racism, I will say to ignore them. basically it's not worth it

and if you really wanna become some body, just be proud of who you are, and just ignore them.

Somebody that has made a big impact I my life is my mom, cuz she had to go through a lot of stuff, well when she was in Mexico then she immigrated to the U.S ,all of a sudden she improved her education and she has a better status in this world, and she had overcome all the obstacles that have been put in her way.

If I go to my pass and change something bad that had happen to me it will be, the immigration of my parents and me because i saw a big difference wen this happened I saw a big difference and it didn't feel like home.

If I could change something about this world it will be the lows, um because some lows go against what I believe or against what other people believe.