Jara Harris - #56

Looking at your whole physical reality, did you ever play sports?

I could have.

And I was really fast as a kid, and I wanted to do track and field.

Now, this is the interesting part.

Us moving from Compton, I didn't understand the culture difference.

So there's a lot of things that my parents, especially my mom, she grew up in the South, she's very sensitive.

to things that she felt like that was coming sideways.

So a lot of times, we're just a kid.

I'm like, I don't want to run.

She really had this thing where she's like, I don't want you running for that school.

You know, and I always be like, what? No, I get that.

But then you didn't get it.

I didn't get it.

But looking back and looking at the times and being one of three black families in Mission Viejo, I can't, you know.

Yep.

Things made more sense as I got older, you know.

Yeah, at the time, you're

like,

what? But, you know, my mom had this weird thing about that she didn't want me to wear jeans.

I'm like, but mom, I like jeans.

Those are for like laborers.

And I'm trying to work to give you a better life.

Yeah, that was in your generation.

But, you know, it doesn't really now.

Like, what do you mean? So I loved wearing cords.