The article “Too Latina To Be Black, Too Black To Be Latina” focuses on accepting oneself even when getting criticized for accepting your culture. As people grow up they get criticized or accepted for speaking another language or how they look. While reading the article it points out how people are separated into different categories such as White with whites, Black with Blacks, and Mexican With Mexicans. People are always labeled based on skin tone and never personality which makes it difficult for society to change and to accept someone. The environment people grow in impacts the way they are perceived, based on how they act, speak, dress, the neighborhood, people criticize those things and make predictions. People are always trying to label other people to put themselves above or to find where they fit in. It shouldn’t be like that, people shouldn’t be divided based on color or culture, they should be friends with whoever they want or someone that matches their personality, not being friends with someone only based on their race is judgmental. 

The second article “The Power of Identity Politics” focuses on how most people lack power. We let people decide what our identity should be. In this society the people mostly in power are white, and all the other people are compared to the whites. Whites get the most respect, most white get accepted for their sexuality, white in politics, more white presidents. By most of these things, whites have more power which means everyone else is treated less, most white get a better education, better financial status, better housing, better job. The other races get poor healthcare, are more likely to be unemployed, have a horrible community, are not being approved of a role based on their color, body size, are more likely to be ignored, and police brutality. Black people are told to forget about their history to move forward, however, history always repeats itself and Black people especially Black women are still not being treated as equal, they still get judged based on their looks, the way they are dressed, and their community. How are they supposed to move on from the past when they are still being judged, and making less than, and being denied a job, not being able to state or fight for their opinion without being looked at wrong? Forgiving and forgetting are two different things, moving forward would mean equal opportunity, equal healthcare, equal education money, and opportunities, equal pay, people would need to be treated and respected and not looked at wrong for their race and sexuality.