The Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression-Week 6

A time in my life that I remember where I feel that I was in a situation where prejudice was evident was directly after my mother died.  My grandma had died with her and she was the one that was going to get custody of me if my mother did die.  So since they both died, I went to live with my uncle (my mother’s brother) and aunt.  My aunt did not like my mom before any of this occurred and that was well known.  I walked into a home where I was judged based on her not liking my mother.  She treated me awful while treating her real children greatly.  Never allowed me to do anything outside of the house but allowed her other children too.  Didn’t let me do drivers training but let her same aged daughter do it.  Many more things to list but completely an awful person to me.

 

This diminished equity because I had no rights and no equality compared to the other children in the home. She did not allow me to do anything and never treated me fairly.  She treated me like garbage and it was evident everywhere.  Just thinking about this issue makes me sick and angry.  I can not believe that someone could treat a child like that, especially one who is family and lost their everything in a split second.  The only person that would need to change to make equity even possible is my aunt, who by no means even cared how she treated me.

 

My life goes on and I am a much happier person now.  I was able to get out of that house after my uncle died of cancer and I turned 16.  That was a life changing day and I do not regret any of it.