Growing up in Racist America: Meet My 100 Year Old Granny

Growing up in Racist America: Meet my 100 year old Great Granny. This woman is my heart and soul right here. Both her and my mother are the greatest inspirations in my life and a large part of who I am and why my faith in myself, God and humanity is strong. I celebrated my Great Granny’s big 100 birthday in Chicago this month and a lot of you saw her on snapchat requesting I do a video with her. As much as I want to keep my family life private especially my Grany, I think hearing a fraction of her story would be helpful and inspiring to some of you boos so I asked her questions you requested via my snapchat: MayaSnapWorld What I love most about my Granny is her positive outlook on life while remaining grounded in the realities of living in America. Discrimination and hate is a real thing, however Granny hasn’t allowed it to define or limit her. Listen to her discuss racism, living in the south, growing up on a plantation, and moving to Chicago. Let's share this vid with President Obama. It's her last wish to meet him. Click here for a quick tweet to twitter : http://ctt.ec/6GVdg AND JUST IN: SEASON 2 OF DEFINING BEAUTY IS FINALLY UP! Watch it only on the app GO90 here: mker.tv/qiG9jV SUBSCRIBE to my channel for the latest videos: http://goo.gl/AlZhsT ------------------------------­--- WATCH THESE VIDEOS Travel with me to Africa: http://bit.ly/alaffiasheabutter ------------------------------­--- FTC: None ------------------------------­--- GET TO KNOW ME http://www.imdb.me/mayawashington https://www.facebook.com/Shamelessmaya http://shamelessmaya.com http://twitter.com/mayasworld http://instagram.com/mayasworld http://shamelessmaya.tumblr.com Snapchat: MayaSnapWorld ------------------------------­--- GEEK INFO Music by Epidemic Sound Opening song vocals: Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, http://bit.ly/1X92lEr Filmed + Edited by Maya Washington Transcribed by http://flawlesstranscription.com/ ------------------------------­--- SHOP MY TECH GEAR http://astore.amazon.com/mayasworld-20 If you do I'll earn a commission! camera: Sony 5100: http://amzn.to/1pGoyPW + Canon 5D Mark lll: http://amzn.to/1pGoUX4 audio: built-in camera audio lighting: available light editing: Final Cut Pro