Quoting An Excerpt Of A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood

Quoting an excerpt from “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” by Mary Kay Blakely, “…the neighborhood I was moving into was teeming with Others – accented immigrants, hyphenated Americans, single moms, low income families…” (Blakely). The excerpt is a clear and precise description of the populace of the neighborhood I live in, particularly my building. Although there are many persons of varying backgrounds, Hispanics are more predominate in my neighborhood. Almost every morning and evening, as I walk the hallways, I inhale the strong aroma of boiling red kidney beans. It is also common to hear an utterance in Spanish after taking a few steps outside my apartment. It is same at the ever-busy laundry mart and the highway-robbery grocery store right on my block – on Tiebout Avenue. Previously though, African – Americans prevailed more in my environs. My neighborhood is not a safe place to be at any time of the day even with swarms of police patrolling the area daily. We recently made the news for a shooting on the corner of E 184th
My host’s dear wife makes all the aforementioned things, which I enjoy immensely, possible. This is because it is her natural responsibility to provide a home for her family in their area of residence. You might think this is a sexist ideology but it is a traditional demand of a mother and wife of a family back in Ghana. Even bell hooks does not dispute it as she says, “…women have resisted … domination by working to establish the homeplace. It does not matter as that sexism assigned them this role.” (hooks) This traditional demand helped our ancestors to push through slavery and colonialism to achieve for the nation freedom from oppression. I think it also a contributing factor to the everlasting peace that has reigned in Ghana since independence. I, therefore, can safely say that my home is a matrilineal