we have basically people on one knee in blackface, yes in blackface singing mandy. and that we had butterfly mcqueen from gone to the wind. that was our role model. there were no other role models for women. they were distinct gender roles. you never saw a man pushing a baby carriage if you just didn't see. it was distinct gender roles. women stayed at home and then went on to quote unquote bring home the bacon. women were expected to be cheerleaders. not businesses. if they were a lot out of the house they were expected to be secretaries in an office and not secretaries of state. women were expected to marry a doctor, not be a doctor. all of this in the 1950s was preposterous, and that my father who was a ditch digger, was a janitor, and sent my fat girls, my little dark skinned girls will be doctors. my dad of course without an education, he had to do menial work. he worked in the slaughterhouse of new york. he pumped home heating oil. he was agenda. he laid a brick. that was my day. now, my mom was from west virginia from the rural town, and a coal mining camp if