Baby Mama Stereotypes

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We are pretending to be post-racial by becoming colorblind, in the meaning of ignoring all other races to claim everyone is equal. This becomes downgrading because it forces the loss of cultures. For example “#blacklivesmatter” this is an international activist movement that campaigns against violence in the African-American communities. It has added to the idea that as people we need to avoid the denotation of a person's color. The problem that appears is then that person's relationship becomes a beating around the bush interaction. When a person is of color, they are of color. Pretending they are not is almost as downgrading as stereotyping them. A stereotype that is often pinned on Native American women is “Baby Mamas”. The Baby Mama stereotype

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