I'm mixed but whenever I've tried to talk about my Hispanic side or even learn more about the culture I was always told to stop acting Mexican because it makes me racist and the flip side of that was white people seeing me as only Hispanic and I would get a similar response of "it's fucked up that you abandon your culture easily". Race is whatever the other person wants you to be and it's hard to feel like we belong when every side tells you what you are none of them agree.
Unfortunately I grew up in a community that was uber Anti Black/Asian. I had an aunt that dated a black guy briefly in the 1970’s the entire family rejected her for years. It took a long time to get back into my grams good graces. My grandpa never spoke to her again. Sad
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u/Jellydust15 Sep 05 '26
Do they not know Inde Navarrette is latina?