Show I Are you a ''''''''"N---- s FreshVoices z N This month marks the second anniversary of Fresh Voices' appearance in PARADE During that time thousands of teenagers and parents have spoken with or written to Lynn Minton We asked the reporter to focus on some of the issues that have arisen most frequently: Do people misjudge you? "Around here let's face it there aren't a lot of minorities If I'm walking in certain places like the mall I'll notice A 1 e t tc- - one or two people look at me Like I'll be on line with a lady next to me and she'll like switch her purse to the other side of her "How do I feel? Well if she's going to judge me without even knowing me—from watching a TV show and saying 'Well those kind of people oh my God watch your wallets! Martha please put away the gold clasp Hide your necklace!' —that just shows her ignorance It is hurting but it's her ignorance She thinks 'They're so uneducated they have to steal' "Personally I'm academically inclined I don't steal car stereos or pick people's pockets and I don't carry a weapon But what can I do?" —Alejandro "Spencer" Brown 17 Ronkonkoma NY "If I walk down I 0 f r - -- the street with a white boy people tend to treat him better than they would a person like me With I ---- t 1 him it's 'How're you doing? How's your scholarship coming?' But with me it's just 'Hi' and 'Bye' It's 2 N k te - Sara Silbert who plays "Darlene" on ARC-TIRoseamm will k - - ' — I 47 11 t - i i et - - ' - r tom 17 next Wednesday Her first movie Poison by —with Drew Barrymore Cheryl Ladd and Tom Skerritt—is scheduled to open In March - f - 4 t t wilmsooi k - - - t) ' t ' - t - v 2 t )$ t -- - 7$ I ( ' k ( t t l ' " ( back-stabbi- 4 - IP ' ' ' A tcnt3y? "No But most of my friends are guys With guys you get the straight truth My friends come over and I'm like 'Do you like the new pants I got?' And they're like 'No they're ugly' I'd much rather hear that than a girl who'd be I like 'Yeah they're kind of well they'renice Guys can be manipulative to get their way'but you can see right through tthem and laugh at them so it's okay But when girls are manipulative they go behind each other's backs telling one friend something about another With my Ifriends who are 1 guys Ii feel like there's never never any any of that And no feeling of ' competition ever And with them I'm Comfortable If one of them shows up I can like roll out of bed and not have taken a shower" - trs ' t 1": kkilele' '': 2 :': '': '' ''' k - ' - '' because when you see a black person you already assume that he's not too developed mentally And people tend to be more comfortable around a white person than around me It's not even first appearances it's miles-awa- y thinking that's passed down for generations Like if your father hated all blacks obviously you would grow up with that feeling "Sometimes people dislike me because I have a lot of common sense and people don't like to see the average black male with a lot of common sense"—Quentin "Ducky" Huger 19 Charleston SC 0' ( ' 1 rfo It ik J - What attracts girls? 1 right We'll talk tomorrow' I don't want to wait till tomorrow That's just acts toward me a total Like if I have a Lipari 18 1 Ronkonkoma NY problem and I need someone to "Money A lot of talk to—this z girls like it when is to guys buy them a going person – nice ankle – be there and he's going to listen to bracelet Or you me and he's going to say 'It's okay can buy them a Everything'll be fine' And not 'Get I little doll or away from me don't have time' show to "Like if it's a Friday night and you care— something just love in fall be can to to going hang something they you're supposed with"—Jon hernia 17 Lake out with everybody and you want to Ronkonkoma NY talk and he's like 'All right all "The way a guy ' VhiittWe C ilL te About A COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY EDIE BASKINIABC FRESH VOICES REPORT BY LYIIH PAGE 4 JANUARY MINTON 28 1992 PARADE MAGAZINE |