Joe Loya
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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She was like a country girl.
Her family was from the
Blue Ridge Mountains of Kentucky or something.
She was white girl.
And we're, like I said, we're in East LA.
It's all brown.
And everyone thinks she's our maid because she's like, she's the, she's so out of all my friends at school.
And she would come to pick me up.
Who's that?
Your maid?
White nanny.
I don't know what you're talking about, but they did not know she was my mom, but she was great.
You know, she introduced a lot of things.
She introduced me to literature.
In fact, she got me reading a lot of great literature and she cleaned up my English.
to kind of the East LA staying out of it temporarily.
Brenda became disillusioned with my dad too.
They became violent with her as well.
And she saw all the violence that was going on with us.
Now, she decides what she has to do for herself is she has to leave.