The Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression

I have two experiences of oppression at a daycare that I worked for.  My supervisor at the the time was a Caucasian woman and I am African American woman.  We was always told that if all the children have left and we have finish all of our cleaning duties we could leave when the last child have left even if it is before our schedule time to get off.  Twice  a week I had my late student to leave at 3:55 and she got off at 4:00 and  I left with her.  My dismissal time was at 4:30.  My supervisor this information up in a coach meeting to have the director to address the matter with me.  One of the other coaches stop me to inform me of the situation and advise me to wait until my supervisor left and then clock out to avoid any conflict.  So I follow what the other coach said and my director never said anything to me about the matter.

The next incident was when a coach position came up and I applied for it.  My supervisor went to the office of the daycare and was telling the assistant director that I did not need the position because I did not know how to talk to the parents in a nice tone of voice. She did not know that the parent she was talking about was in the director office complaining about her and they heard her talking.  After she left out the director, assistant director and the parent meet and learn the truth.  The parents told the truth that it was my supervisor who had spoken to her in a not friendly way and that I had an in and help calm the down the situation.  I did get the unit coach position and she had to apologize to both the parent and I.

This oppression help her to be more open minded to the African American race on the job.  The feeling that I got from the incident was angry and hurt.  I could not understand why she these thing and it made me angry this problem but everybody to me to leave it alone.  This owner turn this incident into a positive situation because she help me to get the unit coach position and she had her to apologize to me and the parent.