Melissa Valle  

The read “Too Latina to Be Black, To Black to Be Latina was incredibly delightful read. I love that she says that she does not let the small minds put her in a box that she does not fit in. Some people who are so ignorant and do not understand one’s history or ancestry background can make themselves look so ridiculous. This article kind of hits home a little. I have three children, one of them is dark, the other is medium shade with tight curls and then my daughter has a tan all year round and curly hair. My older son has had some encounters with ignorant people. When he was a little younger it would bother him that people would look at him differently, I had to explain to him that they are unique and beautiful and that in this lifetime he will come across people who will not accept his skin color. As he grew older, he realized that there are people who still need to be educated in all the races of the world. He is a Black Latino man, and he embraces it. There are many and some are connected somewhere down the line even if they do not like it. Aliechia is Latina and Black and no one can take that from her.