Opinion: Often Unspoken, Racism Within The Latino Community
How much longer can we, one of the fastest growing minority groups in America, pretend that racism is not an issue within the Latino community?
To quote my friend, scholar, and poet Alysia Harris, Some of us speak English because we were born and raised in America. Some of us are racist because we were born and raised in America
you think inside a racist hegemony. It is an unconscious choice even once politically correct language is acquired because racism is a part of your upbringing.
We must begin to embrace an unchanging reality: Latinos come in many shades, and the diversity simply adds to the vibrancy of our culture.
- Mark Travis Rivera
Oxford Dictionary defines racism as the following: Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that ones own race is superior. I contend that racism is rooted in privilege and power, and when asserted, is meant to create fear and to disempower an individual.
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