Eileen Black- They had No Compassion for Us
So that was one of the, one of the things that I remember and not only that, that cruel supervisor. And then it was my fellow students, a lot of them have passed away, have passed away… They picked on us and teasing us, they were cruel. They were cruel, our people. They just made things worse, worse as it was. They made it worse cause they had no compassion for us. Once they had hate for someone they did not quit, they keep on and on. That’s kind of what I went through. And then going, it was under that.. under those stairs, I used to hide there, right under there. I would hide there when I felt sick because I didn’t want to go. I would just curl up there and to be there.
They would find me and bring me [laughs] in there so that, but I always remember those stairs. I always remember the darkness and the fear that I went through under those stairs. And here the workers did not care if somebody was sick, and they didn’t care to treat us and to take us to the doctor or whatever. So I don’t know how many in this school were sick and they died in there because we were not looked after in that way. We didn’t matter.
– Isitsimani, Eileen Black
Notes:
Oral interview with Eileen Black. Conducted, translated, and transcribed by Angeline Ayoungman. Old Sun Community College, June 29, 2022.
