March 2016 Growing out of our Labels
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Growing Out of Our Labels
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What is the incredible power that each of us has to combat society’s restrictions?
How do we support each other in this endeavor?
My life matters, I am human, I am unique; especial in my own way. Society doesn’t label me, I choose to break these terms and stand strong embracing my qualities. My color, my language, my culture matter. Everyone matters because we are all brothers and sisters
At the end of the day, no one goes to sleep with their labels. We go to sleep as humans. My race and ethnicity are labels that are not given to be at birth, rather what society wants me to be.
We love awareness to love others
We don’t give in to fear-mongering, to scapegoating, our parents, and our people carry on their backs. That is so much more than power. La esfuersa of our hard working people. La chinga at Sam to sell tamales or never have the holiday off b/c work never takes a holiday
Being brown is beautiful. Colored people is beauty. We are more than ordinary we are extraordinary
We support each other by having a positive mind, by standing together, by embracing our culture, by standing united, by being proud of being LATINO
Never be ashamed of who you are. Never give up.
We all have the power to be proud of what we carry in our hearts and as long as we as individuals let it shine, together we can make a light brighter than the stars.
Growing out of labels so we can grow into ourselves. Like plants, let us only use labels to identify not judge. She plants, let’s just be.
We have to stay united through any & everything. This way we can be even stronger than we are indivudally. HERE AT UIC I AM FRICKIN PROUD TO BE A STUDENT here b/c FINALLY I go to a SCHOOL where white people are the minority… FUCK YEA! I’m meeting people now that are so damn proud that they were BORN MEXICAN. Why is that? B/c we are more represented here than suburbs? Why b/c there are countless support groups that want us to succeed? No.
We have always had this pride, we were just too proud to put in those white people’s faces that, yea we are more united and powerful than you.
Unless the label is “sausage pizza”, then I don’t want any of that