Dear POC, It’s Not Your Fault

somber proud latina woman looking at the camera

Being a person of color you’re doomed to experience microaggressions, it’s almost like a rite of passage for us. Almost to say, “I’ve made it mom! The white girl in my class just asked me where my family is “from, from!”. Funny enough, I did not experience a true microaggression until I moved away to go to college on the east coast. Microaggressions can come in many different forms, and they happen so quickly it …

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So, You Want to be Racist for Halloween?

man in sombrero

Last halloween some friends and I decided to get dressed up and walk around the neighborhoods surrounding our college that are home to a plethora of students here at Muhlenberg. Walking around and seeing people dressed up was all in all fun, until from the corner of my eye I saw what looked to be a sombrero. For people who do not know, sombrero’s are a significant part of Mexican culture and a huge part …

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