Collectively, when I consider where we are in the world now, I automatically include people of color. This is primarily because people of color have been taken advantage of for what they could offer, rather than just because they have been dealt a harsh life. “We might use our position at the bottom to make a clear leap into revolutionary action.  If black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression,” women of color come to the forefront of my mind because of the very real and very corrupt struggle that oppression causes. Our culture is based on people of color, and women of color have been subjected to the worst of it, so this oppression affects us all collectively. Because it originates from a real area of corruption, this problem is far bigger than we realize. Therein, capitalism exists, and race and gender are linked to and have an impact on multiple notions. The pay for women of color and the products that are promoted to us, like the beauty business, which generates billions off of our very fears, are examples of this. The mismatch between our identities and our experiences in the day-to-day is profited from and made worse by capitalism, which very literally feeds off of us. The system was created so that only those that are not of color could succeed and thrive, with the intention of keeping people of color in a position of a a stagnant place.