Thursday, November 15, 2007

Citizenship Symposium

The first speaker that i saw was June Cross. The title of the session was called Secret Daughter. This was at Keene State College. The talk began with a Hispanic lady coming out first to talk, cant remember her name. Then June Cross came out and talked for a bit describing who she was and what we were about to watch. Then she put on the movie. The movie was really interesting, the story was that her mom had been with a black man back in the thirties and thats how June had been born. But her mother doesn't like to talk about the incident. And the whole video was June Cross filming herself and other people talking about what happened. The most interesting thing that i got from this session, was that June Cross's mother never was racist. She grew up to hate different races but she never gave in. But now it seems like she has thrown in the towel. All in all it was good experience and i did take a great deal from it.

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