Personal Narrative: My Racial Identity

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I notice in my racial Identity development and of my peers that we don’t have to rely on not only people of color, but any person to validate our opinion about race. I notice that we Immerge ourselves when we were learning, and gaining experience about race, and we Emerged ourselves when we learned about race and how it was shaping ours perspective regarding race, which helped us construct a new identity. We thought that by accepting people of other races, we were changing our perspective about race, that the unity of us all together could change other people’s lives. Our desperate intensions of building a beloved community, to fight racisms together, to eliminate all kind of oppressions, it is just a dream because there still people who are

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