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You want to know what it means, just look around and see what people are making the decisions and who is listening to them?

The sociological hierarchy starts at the top with white men, followed by white women.

Second on the tier is Black men with Black women, and third, on the downward spiral — Latino men and Latina women.

Why Latino people are on the third tier is because of factors that do not affect the other two, i.e. language and/or citizenship.  

This also means that the sense of entitlement of those on the higher-level trickles down and the Latina women becomes more invalidated from all those on the higher levels. What becomes even harder to grasp is dealing with adversaries from those on her same level.    

If you stay in your designated place, you are causing society a financial hardship, and if you supersede them (members of the other levels), you are a rarity never to be trusted. Even with the significant increase of the Latino population, there are misconstrued “facts” that continue to falsely represent the truth.  

 When it comes to public policy, it the white men and white women making all the decisions – decisions that are culturally sensitive, etc.

Why are white women administrators or directors of women’s issues, when clearly the Latina women have been enduring hardships long before present day shelters. 

In some cases, minority women are fired at a “at will” state, Florida. There was an incident in Tallahassee where a shelter director had fired seven (7) minority women coordinators in less than three (3) years. As of today, this practice or reality continues.

We are now viewing issues for the black men. Some of it includes the black women, but as you see, they must take a back seat. Black women could tell you more about violence than most white women, yet most of the women’s shelters are directed or run by white women.  

Racism and sexism has reached such a high level that most people prefer to think our system is fine – “It is their problem.”

 The first level do not like their comfort zones disturbed. Some people refer to laws as a guideline but those well informed soon learn that slavery was legal, women being wrongly institutionalized was legal, and that even waving the Puerto Rican flag could get you ten years in prison.   

Bottom Line is that some people feel entitled to certain privileges of this society and continue to propagate false conclusions, so it won’t upset their comfort zone.

It needs to be brought, front and center, to realize the facts that more Latina females are victims of human trafficking than any other group, more Latina women are subjected to domestic violence than any other group, and that many of the reported criminal cases with Latina women victims are never solved, in any state.