Double Edged Sword


Double Edged Sword

English 101D
Joe Safdie
July 29, 2002


I was fortunate to grow up with adults who displayed little or no prejudice toward any other race or culture. I didn't realize how fortunate I was until I married my African-American husband and had our first child. Today I have come to believe that inter-city sociology is a double-edged sword. Therefore, when my daughter Kendall was born, race struck me as something to be concerned about. While filling out an official government document, a question asked, "what is your child's ethnicity?" I contemplated this for a little while, and then decided to answer honestly. I marked African American, Native American, English, Swedish and looks Hispanic. I still wonder what they did with that information. These questions upset me and I now choose to ignore them whenever I can.

So when my family moved to Mountlake T...