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Tonica Russell        Russell 1
Professor Reyes
English A
25 September 2015

          My impression of the article of Anzuldua and the video of Jamilia Lyiscott is that they are explaining how hard society makes it for us to fit in if we are not exactly what the world thinks we should be. It seems as the world likes to judge us by the way we speak. Like how Jamilia says ," I'm so tired of the negative images that are driving my people mad, so unless you seen it rob a bank, stop calling my hair bad." She's basically comparing how the world sees some black people if they come off as talking in slang, broken English, or whatever is not appropriate English to them. When I heard her say that, so much came to mind. It's a shame how people categorize into what they think we should be. Just because a person talks differently than the majority of the world gives no one the right to knock them of that. I mean if you think about it we all talk a little different. It's normal. People like to judge Latinos for speaking broken English but you have to give them credit for at least trying. For a lot of them, Spanish is their first language so of course any other language that comes after that is not going to be as great. They shouldn't have to feel less than because of how they sound. No one should.