This week’s readings overall were about promoting forgetting, the United States colonies and Mexican stereotypes in the media. Each reading brought interesting ideas and concepts. One compelling concept the reading False Memories: Trauma and Liberation introduced was that minorities are made to believe that we aren’t being denied opportunities, it’s just a lack of initiative. Another concept from this reading is how the person with power would promote forgetting to continue to hold on to authority. A sad claim was that minorities and races that are targeted aren’t seen as human beings and we have seen this in our past with minority groups. Another concept, is how the privileged accuse the oppressed of depriving the power they had.
