Chapter 1 Racism Introduced and Defined
Lovette could remember like it was yesterday. Another day trying to make a dollar. That was Lovettes mom. She would get up extra early in the morning just to fall on her knees to give God thanks for saving her from the clutches of sin. After giving God thanks her mother would make what breakfast she could put together and feed Lovette, normally mom would fast, so she did not eat anything. Than she would say in her stern voice. Mommy has to go to work. I don't have a sitter right now so you will have to go with mommy. You cannot let my boss see you she stressed. Lovette looked up at her mom with her beautiful black marble eyes and ask why can she not see me. With a tear rolling down her left cheek, her mother says because racism still exists. Then she dressed Lovette and off to work they went.
As they walk to public transit Lovette turns and ask her mother, What is racism? Her mother dropped her head and with sadness says, it is when one color people misunderstand and misinterpret another color people. What color are we mommy, Lovette screamed. Shhhhh her mom said, then pulled
Lovette close and whispered in her ear. We are the Nubians, the Dark Race. Lovettes bright untampered imagination brought a smile to her mother's heart even as the tears pushed out the corner of her eye. here…