But only pure white Puerto Ricans are white,
This reminded me of this Marvel controversy
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You’re bleeding, and the blood is like anybody else’s—red!””
"the fact is we are all human no matter the color of your skin we all bleed the same"
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Why does it hurt you so to be un Negrito?”’
why not ask "I didn't know you felt this way, can we sit down and tell me more about what you mean?"
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Why does it hurt you so to be un Negrito?”’
The mothers mindset is the same as the fathers.
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Who? Brew? That’s that colored boy, ain’t it?”
Seriously? Of all the things that could have been said this shows a lot about the fathers mindset.
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Poppa thinks that marrying a white woman made him white.
This is a huge factor on how Jose came to think the way he does. Some of the first people that explain to you ¨who you are and where you came from¨ are your parents. Although this is just a story and it is up to you to seek out the facts of all the sides to it. The father living an illusion gave an opportunity for his children to believe whatever they wanted as well.
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ain’t black, damn you! Look at my hair. It’s almost blorid: My eyes are blue, my nose is straight. My mother-fuckin’ lips are not like a baboon’s ass. My’skin is white. White, goddammit! White! Maybe Poppa’s a little dark, but that’s the Indian blood in him.
Jose (my keyboard doesn´t have the proper e don´t come at me) is showing why he doesn´t want to acknowledge his African background. He doesn´t want to be associated with these dehumanizing and degrading stereotypes. He fears the world will see him just as many people see the false characteristics he´s describing. So to feel like he´s apart of the world, instead of accepting any true attachment to these negatives he will continue to only embrace his white exterior and feel accepted in society.
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Tm not black, no matter what you say, Piri.”
Even after logical reasoning and being told why he thinks the way he does. Ignorance is more appealing then the truth.
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Amor de lejos, amor de pendejos?
"Long distance sucks." It indeed does.
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o | started convincing some of my coworkers to sign up for classes.
(VIP) I would never thought this could be an option. It shows how Norma sees people as a connection not assets.
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My high school counselor counseled me against going to college, and wanted me to get a job right away.
(?) What is the reason a "counselor" would be against someone going to college? Is this racially motivated or a logical reason to not get an education in the area they live? Were there considerable alternatives discussed in this conversation?
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o one, absolutely not. | didn't know any. | didn't know what a PhD was, | didn't know any of that.
(VIP) Proof that you can change the course of your life anytime you truly want it. The business of your family name is not always what you are created to do. Even if your family doesn't have any family profession or higher education. You can be the one to make difference no one has seen before.
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She’s the president of the American Folklore Society, and she teaches literature at Trinity University in San Antonio, where she now lives. That's about two and a half hours away from Laredo, where a lot of her family still is today.
(?) I wonder how often the thought of living with a successful career but without her family close by effects Norma?
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The funny thing ts, and you hear people say this all the time, but it's true, | never knew we were poor. | just thought that's how everybody was.
(VIP) Growing up in an environment where you are financially on the edge but you consistently have what you need to survive has an effect on your character. If you are aware of this and you have hard working role models you are more likely to mimic that behavior. If you not aware, you will still be spared the stresses and depression that comes from being poor. Either one creates an environmental for success and even greater possibly to achieve more then the previous generation did.
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And that creates home.
(VIP) The thought of what home is means more then where she sleeps at night. "Home" means anywhere the family is and creating a space to communicate about anything is very important.
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you are there en that beautiful isle. You were oe there. You have been there all your life. You now have what : imental ost people here can only dream about.
(VIP) Spending your entire life in paradise it reasonable you don't see how valuable it is for people who have never experienced it. Earlier it was discussed there was discrimination and poverty in Puerto Rico the grandmother lives. NY wouldn't be any better and the grandmothers emotional state should be considered.
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At "eagle North Americans and Puerto Ricans al ne looking to the day when they can spend the last years of hele lives on a tropical isle—a paradise on earth surrounded by c or blue sea imprisoned in a belt of golden beaches. A
(VIP) coming to NY to better your life and it just drains all the energy out of you. After, we look forward to how we spend the rest of our lives. Living in Puerto Rico is the idle destination, although it is true for many it will be just a dream.
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In Puerto Rico, nobody pushes you, you walk slowly as if the day had 48 hours. Persons completely unknown to you say: “Buenos Dias,” (Good morning), with a reverence and a calm- ness in their voices that reveals centuries of a quiescent, reposed, unhurried way of life.
(VIP) Leaving behind what most people in living NY dream of having in retirement or just everyday.
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I know they have sent you the airplane ticket, and a dress just your size with black and white squares i: over the beautiful taffeta
(VIP) The family bought a ticket and a dress. These are materialistic incentives to hope the grandmother goes to NY.
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