Hw 30a: Secret Daughter

Former Journalist for the Boston globe, and Former professor at Colombia University, June Cross, presented a documentary,Secret Daughter, on November 6th in the Mabel Brown Room at Keene State College. The main topic to this session was for people to understand the race division that she(dark skinned) and her mother(white) had dealt with throughout their lives. The main question she asked before she presented her documentary, was "What is it that makes dark skinned people so different than white."
The Documentary showed what it was like for June Cross to grow up, and all the obstacles that came her way being a dark skinned girl living with a white mother. When she was only 4 years old, her mother sent her away to live in a Black family in Atlantic City. She did this because she was "Afraid society friends will drop me if they find out." They will do this if they find out that she once was with a black man. The rest of the documentary discusses her life and the relationship her and her mother have grown to have today. One interesting thing that I learned in the documentary, was when June Cross's mother explained how people would be treated if you were with a black man. "I was walking down the street and I saw a black man hitting his wife who was white, and people walking by didn't do one thing about it because they thought she deserved to get hurt if she was with an black man."
Overall, I found the symposium to be very informational and interesting. I learned many things June Cross had gone through being a African American child during that time period.