colorism

Black women are disproportionately exposed to toxic chemicals in cosmetic products, illustrating how the beauty industry is an environmental justice hazard. 

We talk about a school-to-prison pipeline and we learn about racist motives of neoliberalism. But the campus seems to not act against its anti-Blackness or its colorism. 

The mixed community at UC Berkeley makes strides to support all voices of diversity on campus, but there needs to be a better support system for Black mixed students to assist in dealing with the struggles that are unique to the Black mixed experience.

Everywhere I travel, my family has had to both reassert our identity and tolerate the casual racism from enough of the locals for it to become a discernible issue. I am fed up with a binary system that refuses to accept that I am just as American as any white individual born and raised in the United States of America.

Performative allyship has plagued progressive movements for decades by detracting from marginalized voices and groups.