
Slipping through the cracks
Cal in Color
As much as I enjoy the opportunity of sharing the wonderful tangle of my background, multiracial people are expected to constantly explain our existences.
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As much as I enjoy the opportunity of sharing the wonderful tangle of my background, multiracial people are expected to constantly explain our existences.
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Even in this community aware of mental disabilities, it can be difficult for BIPOC to feel comfortable taking up space and asking for what we need.
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In a white-dominated institution such as UC Berkeley, we need to talk about the emotional labor that students of color inevitably undertake to exist here.
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Ethnic studies should be a requirement, backed by law, for all levels of education, for all kids, who will inherit the unjust systems we leave behind
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Too often, when major social movements become overtly political, the rhetoric of hope, in turn, becomes a political tool.
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It felt like if I could think of it, then it had to be wrong. It was no longer a judgment of my skill, but my own condemnation of myself within the space.
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Microaggressions — as my sister and I know — are frequent occurrences: At some point in the life of each student who’s a BIPOC, you endure this unfortunate fate.
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Even if magic wasn’t real, I found the need for wild imagination — especially amid the harsh realities of West Oakland — was profound.
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While taking AP and honors classes, my sister and I would come home and trade stories about how the teachers would awkwardly stare in our directions after reading the N-word.
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The privilege of patriotism is a luxury that Black Americans cannot afford. America prides itself on freedom, and yet treats its BIPOC as second class.
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