Last quarter I read De Colores Means All Of Us by Elizabeth Martinez. While the book didn’t have a set character list, it was full of ideas, history of the Latinx community in the U.S. and setbacks that all minorities go through. Martinez really focuses on the struggles that many latinx’s go through. From having to deal with being the minority with most of its community in poverty, the protesting to gain equal rights in any workplace and having many future generations of latinx dealing with a loss of identity.
One idea that really stood out to me was how Martinez explained that white people have/still classify by minorities by how “white” they seem. White people have engraved many ideals and stereotypes of all minorities. For example, Latinos and Hispanics are lazy and careless. Martinez explains in her book how the Asian, Black and Latinx community have always competed against each other. Always trying to find ways to one up each other. When in reality the real threat to all of us are white people. Martinez makes the point where we all need to come together and uplift each other up. That we make sure our communities are represented equally and the barriers whites put are destroyed.
You had me at the mention of minorities. I've been saying this forever! "Minorities" need to stop fighting with each other and tear ourselves down. Uniting for the good of everyone is the only way we're going to get anything done! They're trying to keep us all distracted from the actual problems at hand with all these tiny issues between minorities. Will definitely give this a read
ReplyDeleteRight! its so sad how we are always pitted against each other. We have so many problems we could all fix together and give us a better lifestyle.
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