HW 30: June Cross's Documentary

At 7’ O clock last night I attended June Cross’s documentary and the discussion with June Cross as apart of Keene State College Citizenship Symposium. Here June Cross spoke briefly about her documentary, Secret Daughter. June Cross made this documentary “not because she thought people would want to hear her life story,” but because she wanted to get the message across about race. It was quite shocking to watch the documentary and seeing that her white mother had sent her to live with a black family because June’s mother felt that she would not be respected in the white world. After the film was shown, June Cross answered some questions. The most interesting this I learned from the film was that pain that June Cross went through in being a different color especially in this day of age. I also learned that the Cotton Club was performed by blacks and that whites would come and watched them even though they resented them. I remember in the documentary that June Cross would take the bus back and forth from her black family to see her mother and she described her life like the highway. She would watch the dotted lines go by, just like she watched her fantasies go by. At that time she was just a child and it was sad that she thought like that. It was also sad that her white family never claimed her as their daughter. She was either adopted or known as the child that saved from an abusive family. I enjoyed the symposium about June Cross. I found it very informational and interesting.