'Every time I am in my birth country, I am forced to negotiate and grapple with the relationship between my physical Black body and my country of citizenship, Mexico,' writes Alán Pelaez Lopez (MigrantScribble).
Relaciones is a monthly series that helps Latines navigate interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships by unpacking the tough but necessary conversations that come up in our communities. This month, columnist Alán Pelaez Lopez writes about their relationship with their country of birth,It’s 10:12 p.m. on August 4, 2021 and two government officials raid our bus. I am sitting next to my grandmother. We do not look alike.
We are all visibly Black. I am the lightest-skinned Black person they harass; this is important because I am also the one who is least humiliated and fastest believed. The others have no such luck. The officials reach for a woman’s afro. She does not protest. Perhaps, she has learned that to save her life in our native country she must negotiate when she should fight back and when it is safest to remain quiet.
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