Through the Lens of a Teenage Sharecropper

Can you imagine being told the following? —Your wages for the week is ten dollars after working forty hours per week. —You have to go to the fields to work instead of going to school to get an education. —You have to use the toilet outside in a wooden shed, with no running water or electricity to see. —You have to go to the well to retrieve water to take a bath or wash your face. —In order to eat, you had to grow your own food. Can you imagine only using colored restrooms? Can you imagine?