Stacey Robinette
Mary Downing Gardner English 111
February 4, 2013
Against all Odds I Overcame
Growing up in the early 1990’s as a teenager, and being in an interracial relationship was very difficult. My family was very southern oriented and prejudice. I can recall many times in life that I was frantic, and felt unworthy of my families love. I loved my family very much, but that did not matter they still alienated me. I was sixteen years old working at the local grocery store and this is where I met him, feeling a thud in my heart, life changed forever. My whole life I grew up with my parents condoning interracial relationships. Well I saw things differently so I choose to date outside my race. I began dating the black guy I met in the grocery store. I fell in love with him. I did not see color, I saw a very caring and wonderful person.
I kept it hidden from my parents, they would have been irate about the situation. Hiding it from my parents was the worst feeling anyone could ever imagine. Portraying my parents was the last thing I intended on doing. I had to reveal them what was going on in my life. Redundantly I kept thinking of ways to disclose this to my parents, finally I got up the nerve to tell them the truth. I sat them down, and told them, at this point I felt like their prey hopeless and helpless. My parents washed their hands clean of me; they put me out of the house. My boyfriend’s mother accepted me into her home, and treated me like family. I would be living in a different county therefore I would have to drive forty five miles one way to school. I was in the twelfth grade and was not going to give up so I graduated in 1993. Eventually, I made trips to my parents’ house from time to time. I was not allowed to use the bathroom or eat there. My parents considered me dirty because my boyfriend was black.
Emotionally I felt that I no longer