Personal Narrative: Redondo Beach Cosmetology

something I had learned to do on my own growing up, and also enjoyed doing was Braiding and styling hair/ Throughout my high school years I was a known as a hair braider I had many of my friends and family members coming to me to get their hair done. Once graduating from high school I pursued a career as a hairstylist, I wanted to learn how doing all type hair. Enrolling in Redondo Beach cosmetology school would center me in a diverse environment majority-white, so I can obtain the skills of learning how to do other ethnicity hair. Unfourthhnetly I wasn’t mentally prepared to experience racism among new millennium in the hair industry. I grew up in Hawthorne, California and graduated from Leuzinger High School at Leuzinger High School

Kelly walked over to some other students that were on the next row and said, “They are some wigger lovers”. This is a term I was unfamiliar with, but amazingly close to sounding like” nigger” lover. I was insulted, she was trying to talk about me personally on the ground that, the people surrounding me weren 't black. More than likely she was saying it directly for me to hear, and this made upset, I walked over in a rage to confront her. “Kelly what the hell did she just say? What a lover,” she said it again, “wigger “and gave a laugh at this time. I didn 't think nothing was funny at all she said, “you know when a white person trying to act black”. Kelly looked as if she had no remorse for what she said, so I had to give her an example I said ” how would you like if I call you trailer trash” I knew that Kelly lived in the trailer park in demo. Kelly was angry and said “I live in Lomita” I told her, “it doesn 't matter if it 's Lomita or Torrance, it’s still a trailer park! You are considered trailer trash in my eyes.” She responded, “Everyone in Hawthorne is in on welfare” I told her to speak facts, I never been on welfare, neither has my mother, but it 's the fact that you live in a trailer park and are white