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after reading the articles on identity politics and the other article about racism I can identify with both particularly the last one. I understood how she felt when she mentioned she was too black to be Spanish and too Spanish to be black. it’s almost like people who go through this daily have to choose a side because in society it’s always about a side or what to choose. when a person is of a mixed or not just one race they have to walk on eggshells politically and personally which can be a detriment to their personality as a whole homogeneous person and to exist as both races within one person who wants to be seen as a part of the world. as I grew up I remember going through a similar experience because im a dark-skinned. I behaved differently hung out with more than just black friends and spoke like a “white woman” as I was classified. even though this was far from the truth I was just individually me and it did a number on my character because whenever I would try to hang out with my race I would become ridiculed or joke about since im not the typical standard “black woman” culturally im always seem as a “fit in” or a “wanna be white” and like the young lady in the article I was targeted for not being black enough just like she was “crossed in both cultures and always put down from one group. we no longer have to be a race culture or society of this or that but we can be this and that if we accept the fact that race isn’t a “one-size-fits-all” and who you are love people in their whole self and not what you can just identify with
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