Hope for full racial equality
Olave describes her vision of equality.
Citing this Excerpt
Oral History Interview with Katushka Olave, December 9, 1998. Interview K-0659. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- ALICIA ROUVEROL:
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And what is your vision then? I mean Iߞ.
- KATUSHKA OLAVE:
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Well, my vision is that in the world we have bad and good people and
it's just for the quality of life things
sometime happen, but you need to know them. I mean, you need to know in
order to say, "Oh, yeah these are really bad people."
But that's maybe because they did in this part, I mean
it's affecting me but what I want them is to learn also that
everybody is a human being in this world and we have the same necessity,
the same rights. I mean it's just only changing their
thoughts about ourselves.
- ALICIA ROUVEROL:
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It is interesting because Jackie said something very similar in my
interview with her. That in the end, as much as she saw the cultural
differences she also said, you know, "We're all
human beings and we all have a lot of the same needs and you know we
need to be working together."
- KATUSHKA OLAVE:
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Well, you know if you are thinking we are human beings and everybody
needs the same, you know, you need to treat everybody, I mean, perhaps
nobody will agree with me, but we need to treat everybody equal.
[Laughter]
- ALICIA ROUVEROL:
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Well, and see what's so interesting is how that's
such an American concept and yet, you know how do we always see it
played out? No we don't, you know?
- KATUSHKA OLAVE:
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It is a little bit hard. [Laughter]