I’m proud to be a black woman but it did take me a long time to actually mean that when i say it. Many people don’t understand the hardship that it is to be black. Being treated a certain way or watching how you behave or say at a certain place because of your skin color and most of the time it doesn’t matter because you will still be treated horribly. What’s even worse it’s hard to have black role models to look up to. To be able to have someone that looks like you and understand the things you feel and go through to be doing something that you thought wasn’t possible for you to do. In chapter twelve “The Power of Identity Politics” it says “BLONDE: Oh, my favorite actor was in that movie. He’s Egyptian. WHITE GUY: He’s Egyptian? I didn’t know that. That’s great—we need more people of color in movies. BLONDE: He’s a great actor, which is why he should be in more movies—not because he’s a person of color. Also, I’m really sick of hearing all of that stuff. Black, white, blah blah blah. We need to stop doing that shit. It really gets on my nerves. When are we going to get around to being human!” This shows how others don’t understand how important it is to have representation for people of all kinds of race and gender in movies and entertainment for people to look up to. Yes we are all humans but we all have different cultures. What a white person experiences in their life would most likely not relate to me as  another black person would. 

 Also in the article “Too Latina To Be Black, Too Black To Be Latina” talks about being black and Puerto rican and having to choose to be one of the other or not being enough for each one. In the article it says “When the violence broke out in middle school between the African-american gangs and the Hispanic gangs and the students spoke among themselves on who was best I could remember screaming “I don’t know who to side with!” When I got into high school a classmate told me “You’re the most Mexican black girl I’ve ever met!” I could remember thinking ‘Is that a compliment because my family is from Honduras?’”.  This part stood out to me because it probably is confusing especially at a young age trying to explain that you are mixed and should be identified as so. I have always thought if someone is black there are black and there is no in between but it’s a really ignorant mindset now that I think about. It’s a mistake I think that most of us have made but we need to be more aware of it from now on. In conclusion, Mario  snapshot really stood out to me because it made me aware of all the  stereotypical labels we put on people without knowing how it affects them and undermines who they are.