Know your place!
Over eight years ago I began a journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance. A black woman would be the very force to push me to claim who I am.
Not because she wanted me to see the beauty in me!
Not because she welcomed me!
Not because she accepted me!
Not because she wanted me to celebrate a shared history!
She wanted me to see who I am NOT!
She wanted me to know that I was not black!
To her I had no rights!
To her I had audacity!
She wanted me to know MY PLACE!
In response to her questioning my integrity, my blackness, my identity I wrote and published my first story.
To her I say thank you… not only AM I LATINA, but I AM AFRICAN… not only is it MY PLACE but it is MY RIGHT and RESPONSIBILITY to know where I come from, who I am…
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