My mom, she was the first in her family to leave the hood.
She was raised in one of the worst areas of Houston,
the capital H Hood.
We ended up moving to, like one of the nicest areas of Houston.
At that time. We didn’t even know it.
Like, her own family say,
she thinks she’s this and thinks she’s that
because she’s moved out. She lives in this nice area now.
All of her sisters are lighter than her.
She’s the darkest one in the family,
so they used to call her black girl or something,
I don’t know, because my grandma was Creole.
They were all light, and she came out the darkest.
So they was kind of like, hard on her,
you know what I’m saying? But she was the first one out of the hood.
Then she went and married up to some white guy.
Oh, they was mad then
it was,
she thinks she’s white. Finally,
another one of her sisters was like,
I want to get out, too.
Can you help me? So my mom was like,
okay, well,
you come to the same apartments,
and I get you in, cause I know the landlord,
and we cool. So my aunt came,
and after that aunt came.
So the other aunt was like,
well,
I look better than both of them.
I’m gonna go get me a nice house somewhere.
You know, it takes one person to kind of show people what they Can do
and what they, what they can accomplish