Francis Rodriguez Audio Clip 1

Francis Rodriguez Audio Clip 1

Latino Digital Mural Oral History Project

14 March, 2011

You know I am learning as an adult now that – that there’s certain parts of my childhood that I’ve chosen to forget and by doing so a lot of stuff just gets forgotten and buried there. And I think that as a result of who I’ve become today it – it almost erases the type of upbringing that I had. I was not supposed to succeed. I was not supposed to, uh, be a community leader. I was not supposed to lead other people, influence other people in doing certain things, and I can’t attribute that to some fantastic childhood or upbringing.