In A Research Article By Yale in 2016 Teachers were asked to look for misbehaviors in students, but there was a catch the Teachers were being tracked on who they were watching the most. The results have really changed my perception on those awkward stares by me doing a task as simple as walking, in this study teachers incoherently watched the black student more . Insecurity literally consumes my head while I'm doing mundane tasks like shopping I have to leave my bag at the door when I go grocery shopping sometimes and on a monthly basis have to hear my culture and slurs toward it thrown around. This isn't a problem everywhere, but it's really taken a toll on me. My hair is a constant insecurity of mine and I decided to cut it I got to the point where I hated my hair so much that I decided to impulsively cut off 2 years of growth, originally I would never blame the lack of diversity in my life for this, but I attended my friends basketball game at a very diverse school with predominantly Hispanic and Black students. The game was filled with people who looked just like me and I had never felt as connected with a body of people. Diversity is so essential in life for me now without it I just feel like I'd be consumed by the daily uncomfortableness I get just because of the color of my skin

tldr: I was consumed by eurocentrism beauty and social standards and was glad to find an outlet to this through my friends and their is an importance of diversity in life.

Absolutely, racism is an unconscious reaction

People have totally misconstrued the concept of diversity by thinking it means that everyone should be stratified and organized into their own little label that they have to fit into, instead of realizing that it’s healthier to just not worry about your or another’s skin color, hair style, orientation, gender, figure, etc and how it should affect your perception of this

Racism affects no one positively, even if white people are advantaged by it in a material sense