As much as I love my Mexican culture and heritage now, and embrace it now, I definitely did not for a period. I had struggled with being the color that I am… which for disclosure, I’m barely tan. Specifically, when I moved to Suffolk County, New York – one of the most divisive and affluent places I can be in the country (after 2016) from East Side Las Vegas -- where I never questioned my existence or the meaning of my skin color. Ni de qui ni de alla. In Latinx/Chicanx cultur