I was intrigued by the article “Too Latina to Be Black, Too Black to Be Latina.” It acknowledges how many mixed people feel as if they have to be one or the other. And how they sometimes realize they won’t be able to fit in with either side. I think this is definitely why we need identity politics, so people like Aleicha Willaims will have people who have the same experiences right alongside her fighting for justice. So they can have a voice. In Jamaica, I noticed that this occurs with so many different minorities. Like the Chinese and the Indians, a lot of them get treated poorly over there. even though most of these people have lived there their whole lives. They’re Jamaican, but they are still treated a certain way because they don’t look like everyone else. There are so many stereotypes that are said about them.  Slurs are also used against Indians. One in particular that I’ve heard my family use casually. I even started using the word until I found out a few years back that it was a slur used to describe Indian people. I believe it is simply ignorance and what we have learned from those around us. In the article, she describes how New York was different and paid no mind to her being different, but that in South Carolina, they saw you only as “Black, Mexican, or White.” Certain people in certain areas aren’t used to seeing people who look different, so they torture them for it instead of trying to learn more about them.