Week 1 DQ 1: Due Day 2- Tuesday, January 15th
Please post a 150-300 word response to the following DQ by Day 2. Remember to incorporate course readings!

If you were to introduce yourself by the ethnic, racial, or other identities to which you feel you belong, what would you say? Do you consider yourself a “typical” American? Why or why not?

If I would introduce myself by ethnic, racial, and other identities, I would began with that I am a black, bisexual, female, mother, and educator. Now this shows that I am anything but the typical American. I am the part of American society that has been oppressed for many years. At one time or another, please, please don't anyone in the class take this the wrong way, but I would be calling a large part of my class mates master, using different bathrooms than you, your family, and your friends. Taking care of your children while barely seeing my own, cleaning your homes, cooking your food, and while the whole time prying that I make it back to my side of town safely and whole. Sitting at the back of the bus, using hand me downs that should go to the trash and not to a person, and never ever would I be with the man i am with now not only due to his family but also due to mine. Then in another time my own father would of had the right to put me down like a dog due to I was not a son born to him, or now then there would be a time that I would of had to work as a Lady of The Night so that I could bring in any money to feed myself and I would of had to go through horrible pain to abort my many pregnancies.

This is why one of the things that anyone that really knows me I always say I will not be a statistic and follow the trend nor be a failure in what I do. Now I am glad that I am not the typical American. Cause my view of that is some Caucasian Male or female of average height, weight, hair color, eye color, typical job that they love to hate but realizes that he/she could not do any better and average sexuality. What a bore and I am life. What are you suppose to do with life, love it to your fullest ability while at the same time love others and hope that the ones that have not yet figured that out find their way there. What I say is that what a pity to waste our life. So instead of wasting it with those people I will go stage left and continue on my marry way.