'I could write a whole dissertation on this.'
"I was the only Latina at this company in Hollywood, where all my coworkers were white. I'm from Compton, but when they would ask me where I was from, I would just say LA, because I got sick of hearing, 'OH MY GOD, HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANYONE GET SHOT? HAVE YOU SEEN A DRIVE-BY?' and it was regularly done by non-Black and non-Brown POC."
"Eventually, I began to say I was from Compton and had to educate them a lot to make sure that they saw the good aspects of the hood rather than confirm the stereotypes that are always paraded by the news and media. While some were open to learning a little more about how it was for me growing up in Compton and were open to challenging their preconceived notions of what it is, I still had coworkers that held on to the fact that I was from Compton. Not only was I their token Latina, but I then became their token coworker from Compton.
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