This week was very interesting and I really enjoyed the texts provided. Identity is something that I believe many biracial people go through. Sometimes even people who grew up in specific areas may feel like this as well because their environment has shaped their experiences. I find it sad how even within our own communities we discriminate and bring each other down rather than uplifting each-other and giving each other a safe space to share experiences. Instead of bringing each other down we should give safe spaces to people like Williams where she felt like she didn’t belong anywhere. This situation reminded me a lot of what my older sister went through in high school. Just like Williams my sister is a beautiful black woman who is bilingual. Our mother is Puerto Rican but have different fathers hers being Dominican and mine being Puerto Rican and my sister has always had an identity crisis. Being in public schools she hanged out with whoever she wanted regardless of race but she received a lot of comments from other black people about how she isn’t black because she is hispanic. However on the other end she would also get told she wasn’t Latina she was black because of her hair and her skin tone. So my sister found herself lost and taking out her anger on my mom at a young age , not wanting to learn Spanish and not wanting to each latin foods or know latin traditions. Even going as far as hating her name. It’s all changed now where she now accepts both sides and identifies as Afro-Latina. However when I read Williams text it instantly reminded me of my sister.