Interviewing My Mother As A Interview With A Mother

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For my oral history I decided to interview my mother. My mom’s life is filled with so many interesting stories and they always take me to another place. I chose her because I wanted to more, I wanted to see if my mother was more like me when I was younger. Mother was a straight A student in high school and involved in many clubs. She was born and bred in Cleveland, she grew up in a different and exciting time; it was the eighties. Here is my mom in not so many words : I have lived in Cleveland my whole life and I was born on November 17,1970 at 4 pm exactly at Mt.Sinai hospital, but of course that is torn down now (laughs) y’all wouldn’t know anything about that. One of my earliest memories was riding a big wheel with a little neighborhood …show more content…

You know how you have a sexual past of all the people you slept, or you thought about all that stuff nobody was doing that. At that time the worst thing you could have was gonorrhea you get a short and it 's done. But, you keep AIDS for life and that brought about the era about knowing who your partner was before you slept with them. It was also a time of decadence and materialism, it was great…. because back then jobs were so plentiful. I could lost the job I had right now and two week later have another making the same amount of money if not more. Everything was a whole lot cheaper and alot more plentiful, it was just a easier time back then to get by and get ahead. When talking about politics of the time, Mr.trickledown himself...Reagan deregulated alot of industries which it improved spending and growth at the same time it made the poor people poorer and the rich people richer and that continues until this …show more content…

My favorite teacher in highschool was of course my homeroom teacher and chemistry teacher Mr.Fox. He was an awesome dude, he actually helped me get into college the I went to and he helped with me with my recommendation letter. There was also this nice black woman, I think she taught my english class. During high school I met you father, I was a freshman and he was a sophomore and he had a jericurl but they were the thing back then. Me and your dad connected on an intellectual, radical black movement vibe. We would talk politics and listen talk radio, watch Larry King then discuss the day 's events it all power to the people. I was 18 when I married your father. I had on a yellow cable knit sweater and black jeans , I was dressed like a bumble bee. My hair was in jeri curl and I don’t really remember what you dad had on, but we eloped. We didn’t even have rings, we went down to the Justice of Peace. We didn’t tell anybody we eloped, we just did it.I know my family would have talked me out of and the same for him. We were just hell bent on getting married. You came

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