Merichel Almonte, Reflection 10.

I really liked the article by Aleichia Williams “Too Latina to be Black, Too Black to be Latina.” He taught me racial oppression simply because of its origin and how race can be an aspect of oppression. However, your origin does not define who you are, what counts are your values, who you are, your personality and your physique, loving yourself as you are because that way you are unique. They don’t need to fit in or regret being Black because a good-hearted black person is better than an evil white-skinned person.

The “identity” in identity politics shows as we all know, we live in a general public full of stereotypes about black people because a large part of them are seen as disgusting, ignorant and exceptionally exciting people.
Society has “stereotypes” of people who for them belong to the social circle and are considered by whites, without realizing how society includes blacks, since many of them perceive them as strangers. The assumption about the black community is made by the society that produces prejudice in new young people who adapt to these prejudices generation after generation, while black people live between two universes and have problems with their identity.

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