Merichel Almonte, Discussion 10

I really liked the “Paris Burns” video because it shows desire, passion, love, beauty and melancholy. It shows how life teaches many things and how everything is a sacrifice, for example, older people are tired of the system because they cannot have a normal life because young people and adults can see them as weak, fragile people and even feel sorry for their age and condition. Something that surprised me a lot watching the video was that a grag queen was murdered and left her body under a bed in a hotel as if it was worth nothing, as if his wife was not going to hurt anyone, as if she had no right to to live, the most painful thing was that she also had dreams and wanted to have a family even though the life she led did not give her the opportunity to have one. I think it may be what happens in many cases when they go to intimidate the other person, they don’t know her true gender, they think they are her accomplices and they can even kill her. All this is due to the bars and places that she created to satisfy herself just looking to enjoy the moment. Many people come to do this work out of necessity, because they want to leave their house to run away from some family problem, others because a friend takes them to that life or because they want money and for them it is the easiest way without remembering that they endanger not only their body but also their lives.

In “The Combahee River Collective Declaration” it is observed how identity politics is where the person only focuses on their own oppression. It is mentioned “In the case of black women, this is a particularly disgusting, dangerous, threatening and therefore revolutionary concept because it is obvious from looking at all the political movements that have come before us that anyone is more worthy of liberation than we are.” . themselves”. This shows how darker-skinned women are the ones that society has always marginalized from everything because of the stereotypes created that blue-eyed blondes are the most beautiful and intelligent when that is not true, degrading them as if they were not they had the same value, that. It fills me with rage because every day that passes I try to love and treat people of color better because we are all worth the same.

Capitalism is related to gender and race because whites for generations have always had privileges because society has given them that power and blacks have had to leave their own interests to be worth those of whites.

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  1. Merichelalmonte2727 Post author

    I forget to mentioned the quote of the question but I mentioned my thoughts about it but here is again for clear. “We could 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 require the destruction of all systems of oppression.” This illustrates that black women are the ones who do the most important jobs in society in the sense that they support it because they are the first to raise their voices against injustice, oppression, fight to maintain society and help with the growth of both personal economic of citizens.

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