I was unsure if I would speak on this subject that’s going on on social media with Erica, Mena, and Spice from Love and Hip-hop. I am a woman of Hispanic descent because both of my parents are Dominican. I might not be a woman of dark skin, but I consider myself a woman of color because of my Hispanic descent.
My Hispanic descent does not give me the right to call another woman of color a monkey. People of color have struggled for so many years to be looked at more than just the color of their skin, so why are we regressing and going back to making people of color feel less than dirt just because of their skin? To make people of color feel less than dirt just because of the color of their skin.
As a united nation, I thought we would’ve learned something with all the lives we have lost throughout racism in the last few years. We would’ve learned how to respect one another and how to respect one another’s backgrounds because no matter what color we are, no matter where we come from, what the one nation we’re still part of melting racism that we would’ve learned how to respect one another and how to respect one another’s backgrounds, because no matter what color we are or what part of the world we come from we are apart of an enormous melt pot that makes up this beautiful country we live in.
I understand we should not take what we see on TV as a role because it’s just reality TV. It’s disgusting to see two grown women with large social media platforms disrespect each other and question each other’s parenting skills no matter how we decide to expose the cells, whether, on social media or other platforms, we are considered role models, so we have to be mindful most of all teach our kids that racism is not fantastic, everyone is human so we should be treated as it looked as human beings, not as monkeys.
Use and define the word “race.” Most Dominican Americans are aware that the majority of Dominicans are of both European and African ancestry. Still, they do not define their race in terms of Old World (Europe/Africa) origins but rather in terms of much more recent linguistic/cultural/national origins in the New World.
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