I want to say I love this class, But these last few week's this class has been getting progressively harder for me to digest. On the subject of passing I was blown away at the class responses overall as a whole. I believe it because I am a very passionate person. I feel like there is never any excuse to deny who you are; least of all for financial gain or career purposes. I really just amazed me that in 2011 people still haven't recognized the sacrifice that others have made for the in order for them to be able to have more opportunities for career advancements, and financial success.
I really think their is no honor in intentionally passing as another race. Its living a lie, its not doing any of the other persons of your race or family members any justice. And the internal struggle can cause so much mental anguish. I could only imagine how that would further affect the individual and those around them. Anything that person ever accomplishes they will have to wonder was it only accomplished because of who they are pretending to be or is it on their on merit. Words to live by: "Its always better to be real then to be fake." Like Margaret Cho said "I'd rather succeed as myself, then fail as someone else." this is so relative to how I feel concerning the subject of passing for another race.
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