in this weeks reading I came to learn what power means in this country and how we are mostly ruled by people in higher power who are mostly white. in the reading by Garza she talks about power and how power rules this country. but this power comes mostly from white men. identity politics is a way for a certain group to identify themselves based upon their gender or any other factor that comes into play. now thinking things throughly we see how finding identity is important in many ways because when William’s went to school and didn’t made friends people assumed her race because of her skin color and it just seems that in the United States , color and race are a big thing and people seem to care a little too much about it. back to the reading by Garza she talks about how women of color had to find a way to find freedom because no one would fight for them considering other groups found benefits in their oppression like black men, white women and white men, she explains “identity is the elephant in America’s room” (Garza, page 189) . it seems like its not a big deal but it is , its a way for them to classify people for them to see who’s valuable and who’s not. black women in specific had the worse response to this considering black women are seen as the Lowest of the lowest in the pyramid. she continues to explains how the freedom of slaves benefited men more than it did to women but black women had to still experience both racism and sexism from both white and black men and white women. power only benefits one group which is white and while other’s like to make it seem like its a matter of blame who and things are been a little reached it is not.