Red Revolution Tales

as my first post on this new blog, I thought I'd share with you all a short writing I wrote one night after finalizing all my college applications and I was still high off of excessive amounts of caffeine consumption. I'd like to note that after re-reading this, I still can see the remnants of internalized racism and bigotry in my writing and am so thankful for all the information many other progressive writers have shared that I've come to where I am now. Though it was only a little less than three years ago, I've learned so much about the Afro-latinx diaspora, the history of African ancestry in Latin America, the influence and identity of Afro-latinx people to understand myself and those that are like me. I've learned that my sentiments from before were just anti-blackness and white supremacy at work not only in America but in my Hispanic community. So here is my piece, poorly written, I wrote at 17. "Negrita. That is my nickname in my family and its not m