i hate that sometimes when ppl r trying 2b woke,they still end up showing they know very little about latin america, the middle east, etc+
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an example of this is clara jeffry (and others) calling the mayor of san juan a "woman of color." idk how she personally identifies, but...
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she & her family wld not be considered "of color" in the the PR context,let alone the spanish-speaking americas+pic.twitter.com/4gOlB6djhV
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language & geography racializes ppl in the US in ways that don't conform w/what our own eyes even tell us+
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& likely,if we didn't know these ppl were from PR,spoke spanish, had spanish last names,etc,we likely wld not see them as "of color" either+
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&in this process,whether ppl realize it or not,they end up not only ignoring local concepts of race,but ignoring those who wld b called POC+
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so when blk latinx ppl call themselves blk,as they wld be called in a local context,they r sometimes met w/backlash here in the US +
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(the same goes for indigenous latinx ppl) based on an idea that latinx IS the color,the race, ¬ a matter of language,geography,&culture+
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so yeah...long story short, i wish ppl wld stop doing this it unintentionally ends up doubling down on trump's ignorance
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