Personal Narrative: My Latino Community

The injustice that occurred to the farmers awoke very different feelings in me, ranging from anger to pride. Anger from seeing just another way that people are oppressed, thrown to the side and invalidated in the eyes of white supremacy. Yet I was proud of my Latino community because in the face of this abuse they fought for their rights as people and did not let the oppressor just do what they always do with no resistance. This situation with the garden and the farmers is a very specific example of the way a group of people of color trying to advance and better themselves and their community, but is again being stopped and cannot grow and develop in this country, which has happened to numerous communities and population the moment these land

Latinos are usually looked at in the country as people who are lazy, dirty, poor and also people who are “illegally” in this country to take all the jobs. These are extremely skewed and contradicting ideas. But with that being said, this specific, mainly Latino community is defying these stereotypes and proving how much these ideas are wrong and they are people who all they want is a better life for themselves and will work hard for it, “Most used the food and medicinal plants to augment their dietary and health care needs, and it is estimated that some 2,000 people directly benefited from the farm, as each plot was managed by a family of four members or more,” (p.1). They were doing nothing but trying to survive, trying to survive in a society that has done nothing but destroy their communities and give them not one fair chance to achieve better. Instead they take something that was good for the community as a whole, it could develop well being, health and community participation instead it is something being shame because they are Latinos and looked at as people that do not have any rights and should not be given opportunities These actions reinforce the ideas that Latinos cannot become more than poor people with nothing to contribute to society, yet Latinos are people with innovative ideas because of their experiences yet are never seen as that through whiteness