Summary
1 – One thing I can relate about this story to my personal experience is that when I was in my freshman year in High School in Queens I was in the cafeteria with some of my friends who were Latino and we were speaking Spanish. When a few minutes later, young white people arrive and sit at a table right next to us. Few minutes later the school lunch people start to served the food to the students. On that day, they served tangerines as fruits, after the people who sat at the table next to us get their food, They were listening to us speaking Spanish and tangerine peels began to fall on top of us. At first, me and my friends didn’t realize where the tangerine peels were coming from. After few minutes later one of my friends gets up from the chair and sees some of the young people who were sitting at the table next to us who threw a piece of tangerine to us, my friend got angry and told us all that it was the ones at the other table. We stand up and go to them to ask them what is happening, why do they do that if we don’t know each other. and they said “because we don’t like you since you are speaking Spanish, you must speak English because this is US.” We got mad and we start to fight in the lunch room because they were racist towards us for that comment. The security came and took us all to the office and we explained what happened and we showed him the tangerine peels and they saw it on camera and said that they would talk to them and that they were going to suspend them and that happened.
2 – one thing that I learn on this story is that it promotes single stories can have significant negative impact and can rob people of their dignity and emphasize how we are different rather than how we are similar.
3 – One thing that I like to know more about it it about she produce the music called “Tribal Music"
