Arilson Jose Gonzales.
My mother is from Peru and my father is from Angola and throughout my life (I am now 39) I have been told you are not really black. What does that mean? It means I don’t act black, speak black, dress black. It is painful to hear how people can be categorized into one thing. I am who I am not because of my skin color and not because of where I was raised, I am who I am because of the people who taught me to respect others regardless of what they look or sound like.
