- One identity I’m most proud of is that I was born and raised in The Bronx and that I’m Puerto Rican too. I grew up in a diverse community and with a diverse looking family. Everything from white looking family members, black looking family members and those that look in between I myself. I’m proud of these things because it’s cultured me. Not everyone I encountered looked the same in my life and I think it’s cool because I’m able to understand different walks of life. One identity I would say I struggle with is having I being a minority and dealing with cops. I just haven’t had good experiences with them which lead to my thinking that all cops I will encounter don’t have good intentions in their hearts and don’t care about my safety and will disregard me. I’m not proud of this because not all cops are like that but I just can’t bring myself to trust them or want to deal with them.
- One thing I learned from the reading is how fast the latino population is growing in the U.S. especially the Puerto Rican population. In the article it said 10% of the Latino population in the country are Puerto Rican. I knew that NYC has a ton of Puerto Ricans but to know this is the number country wide surprised me.
- I believe the main argument of the first video is about the struggle to conform to American culture while at the same time not neglecting the culture of your family. It’s just being half-in-half-out. It’s hard to do that because you’ll face judgment or ridicule for either not knowing spanish or for only knowing spanish. I have personally been judged and ridiculed for not knowing spanish and it always made me super angry because it wasn’t my fault growing up. People would ask me “How are both your parents spanish speaking Puerto Ricans and you aren’t?” So I sympathize with these people in the video who faced those same issues of not being hispanic enough.
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Hey Justin,
I can relate to struggling with the cops from growing up. Like you I haven’t had good experiences with them. I would always be stopped by them or asked questions during my commute back home on the A train. I liked your analysis of the reading and the videos
Hey Justin,
I sympathize with your negative relationship with the police. I remember years ago my grandmother told my brother to never run while out on the streets because he’s a young black boy. Someone would think he did something wrong, even a cop. Growing up, especially as minorities. our relationship with the police enforcement has never come from a positive or protecting place. This lack of security and care was evident even during the panther movement when they sprayed numbers of us with water hoses and let dogs on us. I truly believe this pain is passed through our generations. We have so much unresolved trauma, but we must stick together.
Hi Justin,
I can relate to your opinion about the police. It’s hard to trust people who are supposed to fight crime while they commit heinous acts themselves. I’ve also had multiple bad experiences with cops. It wasn’t related to my ethnicity, but police is very brutal in Russia and they often resort to physical violence just to put their anger out on people who hasn’t done anything even close enough to deserve this treatment. It seems that some people become police officers just to have authority over others because it makes them feel powerful