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“You can only become accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.” Maya Angelou“
In the My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou) reading it made me a little angry at the fact that Mrs. Cullinan decided that she wanted to come up with her own name to call Margaret. Out of respect for any human being you should call them by their name that’s given to them. If they allow you to call them an alternate/nickname then you should do so.
While reading the few pages of My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou) I began to think about my grandma. Her name was Margaret as well. In her younger years she worked for a white woman and I'm not quite sure if she ever came across the experience of the family she worked for calling her MARY. Although, this was back in the 1950-1960s I’m almost certain that she was called names that white people called black people back then. Even now in 2019 people are still calling people out of their birth names. I don’t want to sound racist or bias but this brings back so many unwanted memories. To when I was in grade school and high school. There were kids who called black and white kids out their names. A few times I would fall victim to being one of the kids who would call other kids out of their names. I could never bring myself to call people racist slurs or words that would negatively describe them. If there was a name that I wasn’t familiar with or didn’t hear often I would give someone a nickname or something close to their name. In high school I would ask them if I could call them that or did they have a name other than their birth name that they went by. I began to do this because one I knew how it felt being in a predominantly white school and people not knowing how to pronounce your name and two I was once on both ends of this before. It’s sad because even now to this day we witness people doing the same exact thing to people and sometimes we don’t even realize it. I can only imagine what was going through Maya Angelou’s head at the time. I work in a nursing home where I get called all types of black “NIGGERS” by my residents. When I first started this field 10 years ago and I had my first encounter I was ready to SNAP and quit. I was young and didn’t care and in my head things should be a lot different now. One thing I learned is that we CANNOT change what a person was taught and seen all because it makes us feel a certain type of way. Now being called that I just laugh and come back to the person later. Now if it’s someone like myself who is alert and can fully understand what’s going on, I doubt that I’ll be nice about being called out my name drastically. I feel like people should be sympathetic to people’s feelings especially if they’ve experienced what Maya Angelou has.
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Franis
2/4/2019 02:03:25 pm
Hello Biancia, Thanks for writing your story, I can tell how emotional you were after reading the assigned text My name is Margert. But what I think is missing is the D (dialogue) and A (action) . I love your emotional writing...
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Sabatino
2/4/2019 07:06:26 pm
Your introduction contextualizes the post and provides a link to the reading. I agree with Francis' point about the description and action. In class, let's talk about genre, okay? In the meantime, would you say this post is a narrative scene or more of an argumentative analysis?
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